I think people are actually more worried about shit like Karen Silkwood, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, and the fact that ionizing radiation is deadly and the various metallic byproducts of commercial fission emit large amounts of ionizing radiation and often have half-life periods in the thousands of years.
I think the fact is that all of that is combined with a "take the lowest bidder" corner-cutting mentality to create utter failures such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. And no matter how careful you are, Nature can deal you a real hammer blow sometimes, like Fukushima.
So no, most people aren't worried that the nuclear plant might "blow up." They're worried that some asshole contractor just made copies of the X-rays of one single section of pipe and then used them to avoid actually X-ray-inspecting all of the pipe used. Or that a tectonic plate might shift. And that then a large swathe of their favorite country might become a no-go area for the next few centuries. That sort of risk seems even worse than a mere kaboom would be, as bad as that would be.
Karen Silkwood
It happened so long ago nobody remembers it anymore, I think we can put that behind us.
Three Mile Island
Health effects were negligible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident_health_effects
Chernobyl
The US never used such retarded designs
Fukushima
Zero exposure to the population
a tectonic plate might shift.
I don't see that would work, unless the ground literally split in half under the containment building which would never happen, they're simply not built in such areas.
It's all fear mongering bullshit, this is how it should be framed: more people died from the stupid wind turbines freezing in TX than from all US nuclear accidents combined (shithole Ukraine doesn't count).
Fukushima
Zero exposure to the population
Because some old Nips suited up and showed the world what real men look like by going in there and taking lethal doses while they scrammed the reactors. And they barely made it, and I suppose you're just glossing over the ocean releases and the fact that the "population" there likes to eat fish.
a tectonic plate might shift. I don't see that would work, unless the ground literally split in half under the containment building which would never happen, they're simply not built in such areas.
Then you're mighty stupid, because earthquakes happen and tsunamis happen, you idiot.
Both are accounted for, the earth splitting apart right at the reactor is mental masturbation.
Ensuring diversity hires don’t make any mistakes.
Requirements to store the waste securely for thousands of years.
Ensuring diversity hires don’t make any mistakes.
If diversity hires seep into such industries we're gonna have bigger problems.
Requirements to store the waste securely for thousands of years.
I don't think it's a big deal, there are multiple underground storage facilities already made for this.
3 mile Island was human error. The operators took the plant out of "automatic" and into "manual" thinking they could better control the situation. Oops.
Yeah human error. And it could have done a lot more damage than it did, thankfully. Isn't that sort of the problem, that we wind up with "human error" in our human endeavors? Imagine the future, and your grandkids are living in a country filled with fission reactors run by Affirmative Action graduates. That ought to give one pause. We need less risky energy because, of course, niggers and spics and pajeets and mulattos exist, they are in our societies, and they would inevitably wind up being socially-promoted into positions of authority at future nuclear fission plants. Not to mention kikes pinching shekels and cutting corners.
nuclear proponents are the same niggers trying to force the corona vaccines on us, they cannot stop strawmanning even while the oven door is being closed on them.
the concerns you just listed are certainly valid reasons to be worried about nuclear power (which for the most part are also similar to risks from other methods of power production) however most people (not all mind you, you are one such exception) are opposed because they think its like a bomb or some stupid shit like that. stop giving the masses so much credit
(post is archived)