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In reply to the discussion: Holy Cow: Former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Says Every Single Reactor in the U.S. [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)24. Flaw = the technology can't be proofed against meltdown and release of contamination
I'm pretty sure that at least part of his reasoning focuses on the fact that nuclear regulators are servants of the nuclear industry. For example, instead of immediately correcting the issues raised by Fukushima for about 25% of our reactors, the regulators bowed to nuclear industry cost concerns and let the plant owners/operators do the upgrades at some undetermined date in the future when they (the people paying for the upgrades) thought the time appropriate.
That lack of a legitimate human control system means that the technology simply CANNOT be made safe. I believe Jaczko said something to the effect that you can have inexpensive nuclear or you can have safe nuclear, but you can't have both.
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Holy Cow: Former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Says Every Single Reactor in the U.S. [View all]
unhappycamper
Sep 2013
OP
I look forward to the day that they have been so nano'ed that they are
Baitball Blogger
Sep 2013
#42
They should have never been built. We didn't know what to do with the waste then, nor now. nt
SunSeeker
Sep 2013
#4
Most of them are extremely old and in this country they were probably built to be replaced in so
jwirr
Sep 2013
#6
You really might want to consider linking to the article itself for people also not
cstanleytech
Sep 2013
#7
I'm living downwind from El Diablo, that is only one huge earthquake and accompanying
Cleita
Sep 2013
#8
Solution: Paradigm Where People Don't Require "Paycheck-Permission To Live"
HumansAndResources
Sep 2013
#33
Okay, I'm a big critic of Obama but I don't think you can blame the end of humanity on him.
cui bono
Sep 2013
#19
Flaw = the technology can't be proofed against meltdown and release of contamination
kristopher
Sep 2013
#24
I think that peaceful nuclear power is more of a threat to humanity than chemical warfare.
factsarenotfair
Sep 2013
#26