Comment on from "Demon haunted world" (1996)

d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sadly, corruption won’t go away anytime soon, though I do wonder how long the UK and USA will both last, when trillionaires have more money than actual governments.:-(

  See e.g. the story in the USA where the whistleblower was “suicided” while testifying against Boeing for failure to follow safety protocols. Wings are falling off of planes, and nobody will do a damn thing about it.:-( Bc why should a person who has their own jet want to pay taxes to pay the salaries of those who enforce safety standards, just to protect The Poors?:-(

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look at the UK, we built the first full-scale commercial nuclear power plant

  You know that was just a cover for making bombs, right? You have to look up the Windscale fire some time. It’s a hilarious story. There are some great documentaries on youtube. It might help you appreciate having French or Chinese in charge, too.

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  • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t know about the Windscale fire or cover up. Although the production of plutonium is mentioned in the Wikipedia article I linked.

    The primary purpose of both plants was to produce weapons-grade plutonium for the UK’s nuclear weapons programme, but they also generated electrical power for the National Grid.

    I don’t feel any safer with the French doing it as they have also had accidents. (Understandable with new technology) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

    As for the China, would we even know if they’d had accidents …

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    • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      would we even know if they’d had accidents

      Actually yes, because radioactive leaks are very detectable.

      I was just teasing, of course. IDK if the other players were luckier or saner. The Windscale piles were definitely quite insane, though.

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