| Your comment is like a zoo of the nuclear industry's failure. My point is that managerial incompetence is inevitable and YOU AGREE and that REGULATION IS NECESSARY for solid fuel reactors. But the point of numerous other posts is that REGULATION MAKES NUCLEAR UNECONOMICAL and needs to be reduced. But by your very admission, it can't. Then, despite me stating the obvious that various nuclear arguments like "average deaths" and "average radiation released" are politically completely ineffective. Particularly since Fukushima. Does anyone in nuclear disagree that, whatever the logical reality of the stats, this argument is worthless? Yet you parrot it here. I think it is funny you say "well you exclude the 737 MAX". Why would you exclude that from a discussion of managerial incompetence? THE 737 MAX WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF MANAGERIAL INCOMPETENCE. In fact the 737 MAX is a PERFECT example of the additional challenges of managerial incompetence in an age of vastly complex software stacks and control systems. Did anyone on Hacker News not see garden variety software corner cutting in the exposes on the 737 MAX? Here is another problem with nuclear arguing for less regulation: people's faith in regulation and oversight is fundamentally worse now that it was a generation ago. Perhaps it is because of the republican elite war on government, perhaps it is greater awareness and spotlights from the internet, perhaps it is a result of industry lobbies undermining regulatory agencies and starving them and propagandizing against them for their short-term financial gain. The public will not trust a for-profit company to: - run a nuclear plant long term that can melt down - properly transport the waste - trust that the waste is secured properly (Yucca or whatever) They will not. So you need a design that won't melt down (so if the operators screw up, it's not a disaster) and there's no waste transported through neighborhoods (that some scumbag / mobster won't dump on the beaches or in a swamp somewhere). "oh that would never happen" Um, what did Fukushima do with its irradiated water? That wasn't even the mob. You know what else happened in Fukushima? The government clammed up and wouldn't release any information. Some of that is Japanese culture, but still it was a cover up. The US Military was releasing more information about radiation release than the Japanese government! If you want reduced regulation, you need to make a meltdown proof reactor and one that virtually eliminates the waste. As someone that isn't in the nuclear industry and has no economic interest in LFTR/MSR (are there even any companies left working on it in the US?), when I saw those two aspects of LFTR/MSR, that's when I got enthused about nuclear power. ... "SMR technology is being proven a safe and and cost-effective nuclear technology." Sigh, that is pure PR boilerplate weasel words. |