A point I have been making to the pro-nuclear crowd about extreme regulation is that it comes with a powerful silver lining:
Nuclear plants are climate-hardened, secure fortresses that are going to last a century.
#1 place you want to be in violent weather is a nuclear plant.
Nuclear plants are climate-hardened, secure fortresses that are going to last a century.
#1 place you want to be in violent weather is a nuclear plant.
Imagine counting on weather-dependent energy sources to deal with extreme weather, and climate-dependent energy sources to deal with climate uncertainty!
This oversight is already leading to deaths and massive costs to society.
This oversight is already leading to deaths and massive costs to society.
Could we get some stories from the nuclear operators on here?
Pulling in @nuclearbyran's absolute banger of a tweet on a brutal and deadly night where he kept the lights on in his state as they failed elsewhere.
Pulling in @nuclearbyran's absolute banger of a tweet on a brutal and deadly night where he kept the lights on in his state as they failed elsewhere.
This isn't to say that there isn't a problem with nuclear regulation.
In fact it's possible for nuclear regulation to be simultaneously too strict and too lax.
This @slatestarcodex piece on the FDA could be written on the NRC in many respects:
astralcodexten.substack.com
In fact it's possible for nuclear regulation to be simultaneously too strict and too lax.
This @slatestarcodex piece on the FDA could be written on the NRC in many respects:
astralcodexten.substack.com
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