• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I love Kyle Hill/subbed. It’s fair to say though that he’s very pro-nuclear. Not discrediting what he says, just saying he definitely has a certain perspective on it.

      And my primary criticism is on the catastrophic failure problem, and while I think the storage problem is a negative as well, I think it’s less so than the catastrophic problem.

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        9 months ago

        And my primary criticism is on the catastrophic failure problem

        That’s the weaker argument in your original post. Modern designs are nowhere near as bad as older ones designs (aka soviet, we all know you mean Chernobyl) and even the older non soviet ones aren’t bad at all

        Fukushima is nowhere near Chernobyl levels of damage (didn’t destroy things for miles for centuries), and no other major plant failures that I can think of would match “catastrophic failure”

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          9 months ago

          That’s the weaker argument in your original post.

          Well I mentioned waste first as I did that as a tongue-in-cheek response, but then I immediately mentioned in the very same comment the catastrophic issue, and my recent comment is just me elaborating on the fact that I gave one more weight than the other. It doesn’t discredit what I’m saying.

          Fukushima is nowhere near Chernobyl levels of damage (didn’t destroy things for miles for centuries), and no other major plant failures that I can think of would match “catastrophic failure”

          Fukushima exclusion zone is not large enough for you to consider that a catastrophic wide area failure? Really?

          Modern designs are nowhere near as bad as older ones designs

          I’m already commented on this, but just to quickly repeat myself, there’s a difference between being on the design board and being in existence in production.