I was pro-nuclear until Georgia Power stuck me with the bill for Plant Vogtle 3 and 4.
(Or rather, I was pro-nuclear until shortly after construction began on a 7-year plan that ultimately took 15 years, when it started to become clear that gross incompetence and corruption was going to make it an expensive debacle.)
Nuclear power from Vogtle 3 and 4 costs 16¢ per kWh (according to the linked document), by the way, compared to less than 0.1¢ per kWh expected by OP’s comic.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Chernobyl happened through the incompetence of leadership, not because they thought it was “completely safe”.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a good thing leadership incompetence is something that only ever happens once
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And only in USSR!
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
Incompetence AND overconfidence, cause those reactors were the latest generation and considered completely safe.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d sure hope that the latest generation of a technology would be considered safe. That’s generally how things work. And then when accidents occur, we learn and make things safer the next time.
As to them considering it completely safe, I’d love to read about that if you have sources. Cause I doubt that they thought it couldn’t fail.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
Oh yes, you'd consider it safe, but you'd probably also be aware of its faults and shortcomings.
Now I think I read it years ago in a book about the incident, but even reading the Wikipedia page I think we are both right: some of those working there were not even trained specifically for nuclear reactors, cause part of the technologies were considered state secrets.