Nuclear science came into industrial scale in America and there has never been a fucked-up American accident. The accidents there have been have been minuscule and nobody should lose their shit over them. The ought to be understood as valuable part of the learning process of exactly how much safety must be made part of the design. Binary searching how much safety is truly best involves small accidents. Safety is expensive! Safety takes effort every instant!
Safety costs must be balanced against other considerations, but the biggest and most important is profit. There has to be a profit, it can be for the taxpayer, or the energy consumer, or the government, or the investors--hopefully some for all.
Profit is essential, you have to reap two seeds from planting one.
Safety costs must be balanced against other considerations, but the biggest and most important is profit. There has to be a profit, it can be for the taxpayer, or the energy consumer, or the government, or the investors--hopefully some for all.
Profit is essential, you have to reap two seeds from planting one.