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Some designs are resistant to one failure, reactor runaways; but the larger and more expensive problem is keeping radioactivated coolant and parts out of our waterways and waste/recycling streams.


If only the overall amount of waste were small, the transport secure, and we had geological formations in which to bury the stuff that by their very dissolvable-but-not-dissolved existence proved that water left only by evaporation!

Ah well. I'm just glad that renewables are finally moving forward. Better late than never.


> Better late than never.

Most likely too late as we kept burning fossil fuels too long and we are now facing the danger of civilization-ending climate change. All thanks to doomer propaganda like whatshisface's.

Amazing how powerful fear is - to manipulate and keep people down.


I come to the conclusion that the results will most likely be "civilisation supressing" worst case. It won't be fun but we won't end up in caves or extinct.




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