The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency inspections, opening the door for to more self-policing from the industry.
Watch “Chernobyl” by HBO, if u old enough to remember that, at the time it was all lies and cover ups.
I did a deep dive into reactors in general and concluded:
Even with “better, safer (theory 100% safe)” reactor designs are vulnerable to fail (sometimes catastrophically) given
1)external(Social, energy) pressure: 3Mile, Chernobyl, Fuck-You-Shima, all were entirely preventable BUT given “social” pressures (whether capitalist, communist or zibatsu) there is always pressure to do things “cheap”
2)all reactor designs, when off line, need (sometimes up to 2 years!) of cooling to avoid disasters. This means when you wanna turn off, they are massive long term energy vampires.
Thusly: all reactors, given social collapse, where there is not freely available staff and surplus power, red line, sometimes to meltdown. So plagues, war, catastrophe, social breakdown… all over the world…
3)“safe” reactors are designed so for 50 years. They are then “unsafe” but it takes years and billions$ to shut them down (and you need to replace capacity!). A vast number of original power plants are past or passing threshold. To my knowledge, no political system pre banked the money and resources to shut and replace.
So we are just patching cracks, and operating less safely (there will be a bunch of these disasters in next decades)
?What kind of idiot lights a fire that you can not extinguish, and can not leave unattended!
Watch “Chernobyl” by HBO, if u old enough to remember that, at the time it was all lies and cover ups.
I did a deep dive into reactors in general and concluded:
Even with “better, safer (theory 100% safe)” reactor designs are vulnerable to fail (sometimes catastrophically) given
1)external(Social, energy) pressure: 3Mile, Chernobyl, Fuck-You-Shima, all were entirely preventable BUT given “social” pressures (whether capitalist, communist or zibatsu) there is always pressure to do things “cheap”
2)all reactor designs, when off line, need (sometimes up to 2 years!) of cooling to avoid disasters. This means when you wanna turn off, they are massive long term energy vampires. Thusly: all reactors, given social collapse, where there is not freely available staff and surplus power, red line, sometimes to meltdown. So plagues, war, catastrophe, social breakdown… all over the world…
3)“safe” reactors are designed so for 50 years. They are then “unsafe” but it takes years and billions$ to shut them down (and you need to replace capacity!). A vast number of original power plants are past or passing threshold. To my knowledge, no political system pre banked the money and resources to shut and replace. So we are just patching cracks, and operating less safely (there will be a bunch of these disasters in next decades)
?What kind of idiot lights a fire that you can not extinguish, and can not leave unattended!