Fukushima was spectacularly bad oversight of a private company with massive responsibility, and even that needed a tsunami to cause a problem. Regulatory agencies in most countries, especially after 2011, will never be that loose again, not to mention many areas have vanishingly low natural disaster rates. And Chernobyl cannot happen again unless someone rebuilds an obsolete, sketchy reactor design that will never get approval.
The big issues nowadays are dual use of uranium enrichment centrifuges and spent fuel disposal (it’s often not economical to recycle), which aren’t local to the plant and wouldn’t stop me from supporting a nuclear plant on the edge of my town (Czechia is free from natural disasters except relatively mild winds and flooding, both of which are easily protected against with a self-contained robust structure away from flodplains). Unfortunately people are so averse of catastrophic risk that many will refuse to fly an airplane yet willingly smoke.
By the way, there are many actual valid NIMBY points against highways, airports, datacenters, aluminium plants etc. There are air pollution and noise laws in reasonable countries for this reason.
Sorry, but I simply do not agree. Regulatory agencies are only effective when politicians aren’t taking bribes to kneecap them, which Trump has proved happens on a regular basis. There can and will be another Fukushima scale nuclear accident, somewhere, some day. I would not like to live next to whichever plant gets hit with the bad luck. I’m not saying nuclear power isn’t “safe,” just saying when the shit hits the fan I’d like to be nowhere near it.
I mean, you can live near one all you want, go right ahead. It’s not for me.
By the way, there are many actual valid NIMBY points against highways, airports, datacenters, aluminium plants etc. There are air pollution and noise laws in reasonable countries for this reason.
Yeah but living near those things just “sucks.” When things go bad at an airport they don’t have to permanently evacuate everyone in a 20 mile radius.
Fukushima was spectacularly bad oversight of a private company with massive responsibility, and even that needed a tsunami to cause a problem. Regulatory agencies in most countries, especially after 2011, will never be that loose again, not to mention many areas have vanishingly low natural disaster rates. And Chernobyl cannot happen again unless someone rebuilds an obsolete, sketchy reactor design that will never get approval.
The big issues nowadays are dual use of uranium enrichment centrifuges and spent fuel disposal (it’s often not economical to recycle), which aren’t local to the plant and wouldn’t stop me from supporting a nuclear plant on the edge of my town (Czechia is free from natural disasters except relatively mild winds and flooding, both of which are easily protected against with a self-contained robust structure away from flodplains). Unfortunately people are so averse of catastrophic risk that many will refuse to fly an airplane yet willingly smoke.
By the way, there are many actual valid NIMBY points against highways, airports, datacenters, aluminium plants etc. There are air pollution and noise laws in reasonable countries for this reason.
Sorry, but I simply do not agree. Regulatory agencies are only effective when politicians aren’t taking bribes to kneecap them, which Trump has proved happens on a regular basis. There can and will be another Fukushima scale nuclear accident, somewhere, some day. I would not like to live next to whichever plant gets hit with the bad luck. I’m not saying nuclear power isn’t “safe,” just saying when the shit hits the fan I’d like to be nowhere near it.
I mean, you can live near one all you want, go right ahead. It’s not for me.
Yeah but living near those things just “sucks.” When things go bad at an airport they don’t have to permanently evacuate everyone in a 20 mile radius.