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Didn't this catastrophe happen in a communist country with the government in complete control of all aspects? The presence of a government agency regulating the activity is not like some magic amulet that will prevent bad things from occurring.
The EPA has caused its own share of disasters, such as the MBTE fiasco.
No, that would be Fukushima.
The interviews are interesting. I was a kid those days, and my mother keeps telling me that diary products were suddenly put on a sale (before the news release). I live in Eastern-Europe, in the former Warsaw Pact bloc. My father worked in a research institute, so managed to get a hold of the information before the official announcements. He told her not to buy any diary or vegetable for a while. ---- What troubles m…
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How can you list scarcity of uranium as an issue for nuclear, then advocate for hydro without mentioning the same? There are only so many suitable locations for hydro, and the further down the list we go the worse the incremental environmental impact.
Tidal is hydro and has barely been tapped.
You can make a compelling case for anything if you leave out inconvenient details.
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How can you list scarcity of uranium as an issue for nuclear, then advocate for hydro without mentioning the same? There are only so many suitable locations for hydro, and the further down the list we go the worse the incremental environmental impact.
Tidal is hydro and has barely been tapped.
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What I see on HN is a stream of technological idealism that tends to ignore the practical difficulties. Blaming protestors for lack of progress is very easy as it allows you to neatly ignore those issues. There are many economic and engineering reasons why nuclear is so hard to get right.
France, a rich, functional, liberal, western democracy, is more or less uncontroversially nuclear powered to a very high degree. There are no more practical difficulties than any other large, important project. The only problem is politics.
It turns out that nuclear physics is really quite hard. That is not a reason to not do something. But we shouldn't take these issues so lightly.
Any chance there's a Russian version of this somewhere?
The interviews are interesting. I was a kid those days, and my mother keeps telling me that diary products were suddenly put on a sale (before the news release). I live in Eastern-Europe, in the former Warsaw Pact bloc. My father worked in a research institute, so managed to get a hold of the information before the official announcements. He told her not to buy any diary or vegetable for a while. ---- What troubles m…
It touches on all aspects of the accident and cleanup. There are a lot of good interviews and actual footage from the event. The most amazing/sad part to me were the men who did the clean up in 30 second - 1 minute shifts.