[QUOTE=laserguided;39883866]capitalism.[/QUOTE]
erm no?
if anything it's the government's fault since they didn't like the early thorium designs (i'm not sure whether the claim that they weren't favored because they couldn't be used to make bombs is actually true or just pro-thorium propaganda)
the reason progress has been slow is because there are thorny engineering problems that have to be resolved, such as how to safely contain the molten fluoride without it corroding the shit out of the inside of the reactor.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;39886455]I just want to point out that the "[I]all nuclear accidents was a result of the human factor[/I]" is a terrible argument in support of nuclear power, because the human factor can never be eliminated. On one hand it proves that nuclear energy isn't inherently dangerous in itself, but at the same time it suggests that the consequences of an accident due to human error makes nuclear power altogether too risky for us to dabble with. I.E, a wind turbine park doesn't have the same capacity to cause a disaster when a human fucks something up.
So like, just don't go saying that when trying to win an argument against a treehugger or something[/QUOTE]
"1)" was in response to:
"1. its the devil that we know, we've experimented and had failures with it since the late 1930s and early 1940s , we know how it works and we know how to prevent further catastrophys"
So I thought I'd generalize a bit to keep the tone.
[QUOTE=download;39886327]Pretty much.
Chernobyl was extremely outdated reactor that was designed and built in the 1950s for fuck sake. Fukushima was an old (1960) design that didn't account for local conditions. Despite being hit by an earthquake and a tsunami, it only had a partial meltdown.
In some ways you can blame Greenpeace. Their constant protesting of new reactors means that older reactors are required to stay in service for longer, posing a risk[/QUOTE]
You're wrong here. Chernobyl was is no way more outdated than other power plants. The disaster is pretty much 100% human error. And it wasn't built in the 50s, the first reactor was completed in '77!
The disaster itself occurred in reactors 3 and 4 which were finished in '81 and '83 respectively!
And Fukushima had accounted very well for local conditions, but it was the contrived combination of several FREAK factors that caused the (partial) meltdown.
Can we [I]please[/I] not spread misinformation?
[QUOTE=Xieneus;39883708]We will live in prosperity.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Xieneus;39883708]We will live in prosperity.[/QUOTE]
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Bill Gates is a bro for funding this.
[editline]12th March 2013[/editline]
Or well, he funds a lot of good stuff.
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