• Strykker@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Go lookup CANDU reactors, we have designs already that can’t steam explode themselves and instead will fail safe. Also just to be clear nuclear reactors don’t perform a nuclear explosion if they fail, the Chernobyl explosion was a steam explosion that threw nuclear material into the air.

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      7 months ago

      The level of incompetence I’ve grown to expect of my state government would suggest that they’d have fissile material delivered and stored in a leaky shed, where it will create runoff which contaminates the local reservoir, before a crackhead steals it, takes it to the scrapyard, and it is never seen again.

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      7 months ago

      Or we could just use solar with none of those risks but still using the largest nuclear reaction around.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      …and rendered an area the size of a county unsuitable for humans for hundreds of generations.

      You’re going to have to show me a government that isn’t half-full of people who hate education, who hate science, and most of all who hate accountability before I vote for more nuclear power.