Sobering review of nuclear plant safety in the US
I’m quite pro-nuclear power. But the only way nuclear power is viable is with safe reactor designs and, for the older reactors, stringent safety regulations that are actually followed.
This isn’t going to cut it:
Nonetheless, only two U.S. nuclear sites are in compliance with federal fire regulations; all others continue to operate with exemptions, a stopgap system that was implemented more than thirty years ago and was never intended as a permanent solution.
Given the enormous capital costs and general unprofitibaility of nuke plants, I think it would behoove the US government to get into the business of building them. Decide on a good, safe design— thorium if that technology pans out, standardize the design, and make it a national network.
Yes, that is, in fact, socialism. And I’m okay with that.
