The counter argument to nuclear power is not that “nuclear power” is unsafe.
It’s that “everyone involved with nuclear power, are incompetent, greedy fucks, who sabotage a maybe potentially safe technology for potential monetary gain and because incompetence and greed can’t be prevented, nuclear power will stay unsafe, regardless of technological progress.”
It’s not that you can’t sufficiently engineer the thing itself. You can’t engineer the people who run it, ever.
Cleanup for the first turned off nuclear reactor is going into it’s third decade in Germany and won’t be done for another 40 years. All tax money. And that’s without a disaster.
The counter argument to nuclear power is not that “nuclear power” is unsafe.
It’s that “everyone involved with nuclear power, are incompetent, greedy fucks, who sabotage a maybe potentially safe technology for potential monetary gain and because incompetence and greed can’t be prevented, nuclear power will stay unsafe, regardless of technological progress.”
It’s not that you can’t sufficiently engineer the thing itself. You can’t engineer the people who run it, ever.
Cleanup for the first turned off nuclear reactor is going into it’s third decade in Germany and won’t be done for another 40 years. All tax money. And that’s without a disaster.