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Originally Posted by OkieSnuffBox
Yep. People in the US are scared because of 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. And don't realize the 1st one was tiny, the other reactors at Chernobyl operated into the 90s and I think one as last as 2001.
And Fukushima likely would have been fine if the backup generators had been located in a different place.
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My brother is a nuclear engineer. You'd be surprised how many close-calls and near-misses there have been. There are some good accounts available if you start looking. This is basically a no-option-for-failure industry and requires extreme regulation to achieve. With that comes all the huge costs that make it impractical in many (but not all) situations. The continuing mess of Fukishima is a good example of how bad it can get, not necessarily the worst case scenario, but how it can continue to spiral. Many people tend to think that fuel rods are the only radioactive waste too...