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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

if there was not as much scare of nuclear power.

I was pro nuclear until solar became cheaper than nuclear but I think if there was less scare about nuclear, there would have been more Chernobyls. That happened because of thinking it’s completely safe.

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MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Chernobyl happened through the incompetence of leadership, not because they thought it was “completely safe”.

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- MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s a good thing leadership incompetence is something that only ever happens once
  
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- SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Incompetence AND overconfidence, cause those reactors were the latest generation and considered completely safe.
  
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  - MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
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grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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