re: #4 EPR-radar

I don’t accept the premise only government can run a safe operation. First off, the government has also had it’s share of industrial accidents. It has also shown lack of oversight etc, cost cuts have had serious consequences. Secondly there are of course examples of well run nuclear plants, and other very dangerous processes that are also well run.

Nothing is long term accident free. Government vs private industry is not the question. The real point is you have to have smart well trained and strongly empowered oversight. That does not come automatically to any kind of organization. None whatsoever. Not the Federal government not the military industrial complex and certainly not to energy companies. Nuke or coal. Chernobyl was government run.

If we don’t have dramatically expanded nuclear power to offset fossil fuels we will certainly suffer the worst consequences of climate change because wind and solar etc are not going to fill the gap in time.

Next look at the sad state of US reactor design & operational experience. essentially frozen in time for decades. Why? Totally stymied by an environmental movement so scared and powerful it stopped nuclear power dead in in its tracks here. This, despite the ongoing deaths and consequences of coal. Apparently those deaths are somehow of lesser concern.

Advanced and demonstrably less dangerous designs can’t get built let alone tested in genuine circumstances.