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by morning_gelato
1939 days ago
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How could someone demonstrate the safety of these systems if their very association with those systems is a sufficient reason for you to doubt them? If the research and experiments of nuclear engineers, scientists, and regulators from around the world cannot be trusted to develop or assess the safety of fission reactors, why does this change with fusion? I also have not seen evidence that anyone is attempting to suppress information about nuclear safety. Overall nuclear power has an outstanding safety record and ranks among the lowest deaths per TWh of any energy source (and this includes Chernobyl)[1][2]. For the record the HBO series on Chernobyl, while a good show, greatly exaggerated parts of the story. There was no threat of a megaton-level thermonuclear explosion that would destroy Kiev or make huge parts of Europe uninhabitable from the melted core coming in contact with water. The soviets did know about the RBMK's propensity to have a runaway reaction, and the rest of the world never allowed those types of reactors to be built. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw... [2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... |
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