Comment by fuzzfactor
7 hours ago
Well, no it's never been extremely safe by any stretch of the imagination.
That's just an extreme interpretation of the way it's not as extremely unsafe as it could be.
Plus at the rate it's being addressed by a few enthusiasts, it could be getting remarkably safer, maybe even in one person's lifetime someday.
Developments may be positive but it makes the most sense to be realistic and avoid the completely unfounded hype involved.
Plus when nuclear works best the high-skill jobs resulting have to be as non-countless as possible, that's one of the big factors which might someday allow the economics to be less unfavorable.
It's extremely safe, except in the event of a black swan event, in which case it becomes extremely unsafe.
This is compared to, for example, a coal plant, which is quite unsafe to be near constantly, all the time.
Pull back from the extremes a little bit and it's an excellent synopsis.
Keep in mind an off-white swan can be pretty bad too :)
The main thing about such uncommon or even unlkely events, is that nobody knows what to do about them.
I suspect it's all a moot point.
Prices of solar and battery are plummeting. If anything they are dropping faster than they were 5—10 years ago.
10 years from now I suspect the grid will largely be transitioning remaining fossil fuel base load to solar and wind backed with batteries, because the economics will be there to overbuild the solar and battery to the extent needed to provide reliable base load through the winter.
Well, this is just boomer lunatic anti-nuclear FUD. It is not what the numbers say.
Do the math again.
The numbers say that nothing is extremely safe, and experience has shown that having more maturity may not be necessary to recognize that, but it helps.
It just hurts the case for positive progress to mindlessly exaggerate. Especially to the absolute max.
Plus I'm not one of the ones who follow any boomer lunatic trends when I can come up with my own which people of many ages have adopted quite a bit.
Remember wacky lunatic science turns into regular science more often than you think once the dust settles.
But the advantage of that doesn't really depend on elderliness, mainly dedication to science.
Any age can do it if you try.
Well, maybe not if you're completely non-gifted in some way or another.