Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
But Nuclear power is safe and nothing bad would ever happen.

Before someone inevitability comes along, gnashing their teeth, telling me how the Russians (everything the Soviets did was the Russians fault, remember that) disregarded protocol, telling me how accidents literally never happen (except that one in Japan and that other one in three mile island).

I would simply point out that one of these accidents is catastrophic. You know what happens when a windmill or solar panel explodes? A fire. You know a fire does? It gets extinguished.

Nuclear power is meme propagated but pseudo scientific shutins.
Sigh. The Chernobyl disaster was caused by human error and a lack of knowledge concerning all the processes taking place inside a reactor coupled with bad reactor design. Once things went belly up, the reactor had no security systems to either prevent or delay the explosion so it was on a one way trip to dumping radioactive debris straight into the atmosphere. Modern reactors are designed with many types of protective layers between the nuclear fuel/waste and the outside world. They are also designed with automated control systems that kick-in if things go south and keep them from escalating.

Natural events like monster earthquakes or tsunamis can still cause a disaster, but the problem is that right now we don't really have a working option to nuclear fission for our energy supply. I mean sure, the Internet is full of crackpots with wondrous solutions to all the problems of existence, but we are speaking about the real world here.