rocketpig said:
HappySqurriel said:
rocketpig said:
numonex said:
The cost of setting up nuclear plants and safely maintaining them is extremely expensive- multiplier effect based on more plants. Cost savings and cutting corners on safety and maintenance on nuclear plants may lead to Chernobyl meltdowns. Multi-national companies like to save costs and cut corners on safety and maintenance and not conducting audits.
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Again, this is untrue. Stop saying this. Nuclear power is FAR cheaper than any green alternative.
And Chernobyl melted down because it was poorly maintained and was built far under any western specification for nuclear plants... 25 years ago. The tech is far more advanced. Outside of one rickety, poorly designed, poorly maintained, and under protected nuclear plant in SOVIET RUSSIA, name me one nuclear plant that has destroyed its surroundings or even made civilians sick in an accident.
And who said anything about letting Iran have nuclear power? I'm talking about the western world here (and so are you). It's the only part of the globe that emits enough pollution to matter and actually gives a shit about the environment (along with Japan and a few other SE Asian nations).
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On top of that, American, Russian, and (if I remember correctly) British nuclear technology of the age of Chernobyl was focused on making the smallest nuclear reactors (to be put on submarines) not to make the safest nuclear reactors ... In contrast, Canada lacked the heavy industry to build these kinds of reactors, and had not interest in developing nuclear submarines, so they designed the Candu reactor which is (generally speaking) a larger but safer design.
Or to put it another way, designs for reactors exist today that would make Chernobyl remarkably unlikely even if they were as poorly maintained.
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Not only that but look at Chernobyl:
Notice anything missing? Look at Three Mile Island, which was built close to the same time (actually a few years earlier):
When Russian engineers started building plants without walled protection around the reactor, everyone knew the dangers. They simply chose to ignore it and devastated an entire city because of it.
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Actually there once was a nuclear plant in fukui japan that leaked sodium a few times which has killed people.
As for something like Chernobyl, yeah I dont think so.
