The lesson that people learned from Chernobyl is that these things need to fail safely. Modern reactors will automatically wind down their reactions when a problem appears, without intervention. If someone is dumb enough to build a reactor that has runaway reaction problems like Chernobyl… that’s on them
Look at how much taxpayer money has been used to clean up oil and gas wells.
It’s a lot more money than it has been for nuclear incidents. The only major (and I use that term lightly. Largest?) incident in the US was Three Mile Island. Go look at the cost for that vs all the oil and gas issues.
The lesson that people learned from Chernobyl is that these things need to fail safely. Modern reactors will automatically wind down their reactions when a problem appears, without intervention. If someone is dumb enough to build a reactor that has runaway reaction problems like Chernobyl… that’s on them
It is not on them, thats the problem, someone else dies cleaning up their mess and the disastercleanup is paid by the taxpayers
Look at how much taxpayer money has been used to clean up oil and gas wells.
It’s a lot more money than it has been for nuclear incidents. The only major (and I use that term lightly. Largest?) incident in the US was Three Mile Island. Go look at the cost for that vs all the oil and gas issues.
Im hardly arguing replacing aging nuclear with more gas and oil nor adding more gas and oil to fuel even more meatproduce or datacenterspawns duh…
…that’s a good point 🤔 Corporations can never fix the systemic problems they cause