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by rsync 4723 days ago
1. Read "Normal Accidents" by Charles Perrow.

2. Alternately laugh and cry as you read the nuclear plant chapter(s).

3. Begin to seriously consider marching in the streets to protest new and existing nuclear plants (of the common, standard models).[1]

[1] More modern designs without tightly coupled systems and associated risks (thorium, molten salt, pebble-bed, whatever) seem very promising.