undefined | Better HN

0 pointszizee1y ago0 comments

Well, back to my original point that the challenges are political in nature.

Nuclear has one of the lowest mortality rates per megawatt hour. It would be even better if only modern reactor designs were considered.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

0 comments

bb881y ago

But also the highest potential for mass disaster. Even the so-called "safe" designs like pebble bed reactors have had issues with dust from the pebbles grinding against each other.

zizeeOP1y ago

This is just not true. A hydroelectric dam failure has demonstrably more potential for mass disaster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse