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Turns out clientism is still bad even when it's the PEOPLE'S clientism 20th Century History (media.piefed.social)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The lesson that people learned from Chernobyl is that these things need to fail safely. Modern reactors will automatically wind down their reactions when a problem appears, without intervention. If someone is dumb enough to build a reactor that has runaway reaction problems like Chernobyl... that's on them

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It is not on them, thats the problem, someone else dies cleaning up their mess and the disastercleanup is paid by the taxpayers

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Look at how much taxpayer money has been used to clean up oil and gas wells.

    It's a lot more money than it has been for nuclear incidents. The only major (and I use that term lightly. Largest?) incident in the US was Three Mile Island. Go look at the cost for that vs all the oil and gas issues.

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