re: #127 sagehen

You can call it irrational, but… FUKASHIMA.

And what caused the Fukushima Daiichi events? Was it something inherent to nuclear fission, or was it individuals and organizations cutting corners?

It was the latter. The reserve power infrastructure wasn’t secured against a tsunami, much less a century tsunami. Upgrades strongly recommended by the manufacturer of the reactors had not been performed.

And I strongly suspect that you also had issues with transparency wrt. incidents as well as safety culture, not only at the plant but in the corporation running them as well. And lacking safety culture and opacity wrt. incidents is how a reactor designed for 3,300 MW thermal goes beyond 33,000 MW thermal (the recording device cut off at that point).

Nuclear power is an option, but you have to be OCD on safety protocol and rotate staff regularly around tasks and facilities to avoid them getting too relaxed around the dragon, because in the instant you lose respect for the dragon… It bites. HARD.