A 66-year-old Arkansas man has been arrested after he allegedly rammed his car through security gates at a South Carolina nuclear power plant and tried to hit security guards.
It’s relevant. Hyperbole about nuclear energy isn’t helpful. Even counting every single low level nuclear accident throughout the history of the world it is still a better safety record than any other mass market means of power production.
It’s not hyperbole, it’s accurate and it doesn’t try to lie by omission.
Ed: Peach bottom wasn’t experimental and had a number of actual accidents and many near misses.
Among the incidents cited by the NRC: security guards were overworked, one guard was found asleep on the job, 36,000 gallons of “mildly radioactive water” leaked into the Susquehanna River, PECO mislaid data on radioactive waste classification causing misclassification of a waste shipment, and a major fire occurred in the maintenance cage of the Unit 3 turbine building on March 4, 1987
And that’s ignoring the dumpster fire called Hanford that we’ve been cleaning up for 30 fucking years at the cost of ≈200 billion dollars so far.
My grandpa worked for the nrc and was called into both peach bottom and three mile, the amount of near misses that people will almost certainly never know about is quite a bit larger than you would assume.
Maybe comparing to experimental reactors from 70 years ago is not exactly relevant.
It’s relevant. Hyperbole about nuclear energy isn’t helpful. Even counting every single low level nuclear accident throughout the history of the world it is still a better safety record than any other mass market means of power production.
It’s not hyperbole, it’s accurate and it doesn’t try to lie by omission.
Ed: Peach bottom wasn’t experimental and had a number of actual accidents and many near misses.
And that’s ignoring the dumpster fire called Hanford that we’ve been cleaning up for 30 fucking years at the cost of ≈200 billion dollars so far.
My grandpa worked for the nrc and was called into both peach bottom and three mile, the amount of near misses that people will almost certainly never know about is quite a bit larger than you would assume.