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Originally Posted by RM7
My brother is a nuclear engineer. You'd be surprised how many close-calls and near-misses there have been. There are some good accounts available if you start looking. This is basically a no-option-for-failure industry and requires extreme regulation to achieve. With that comes all the huge costs that make it impractical in many (but not all) situations. The continuing mess of Fukishima is a good example of how bad it can get, not necessarily the worst case scenario, but how it can continue to spiral. Many people tend to think that fuel rods are the only radioactive waste too...
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One of the things I've read is that all plants in the US are essentially one-offs, vs being standardized in design designs places in like France who rely on nuclear power for ~80% of their grid.
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Originally Posted by x622
Fukushima like most of the other issues are related to first generation NPPs running way past their service life because politicians don't want to build new ones and sunset the old ones.
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Yeah, I read years ago that Thorium reactors are the way to go.