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I don’t know what hypotheticals you’re running so it’s hard to address your concerns. It seemed to me that you were thinking of sudden widespread collapse where order and competency is turned off like a light switch. There was an engineering failure that should’ve never occurred at Fukushima and the long run damage of stopping the reactors is orders of magnitude higher than the issue itself. The next generation of reactors are designed to further mitigate risk. Any broad based collapse at this point would be absolutely devastating to our species and I think it would happen over the course of decades, plenty of time to turn a reactor off.
Ukraine is still using nuclear power, the Russians turned the reactors they seized off. In the midst of a brutal war they’re managing these systems.
It’s GG if we fall that far and I don’t think we will. My biases are more Aristotelian so I’ll bet on the institutions that build and run these power houses. It is a manageable threshold for our present civilization in a way I intend to preserve and pass on.
Not everyone should have reactors but where there are competent engineers who are thinking in generations, we should. Modernists need to take the stewardship of these generators much more seriously than other noise. Existing reactors are a great gift and inheritance from competent people who not only dreamed bigger but lived in ways that were fundamentally aligned.
I don’t know what hypotheticals you’re running so it’s hard to address your concerns. It seemed to me that you were thinking of sudden widespread collapse where order and competency is turned off like a light switch. There was an engineering failure that should’ve never occurred at Fukushima and the long run damage of stopping the reactors is orders of magnitude higher than the issue itself. The next generation of reactors are designed to further mitigate risk. Any broad based collapse at this point would be absolutely devastating to our species and I think it would happen over the course of decades, plenty of time to turn a reactor off.
Ukraine is still using nuclear power, the Russians turned the reactors they seized off. In the midst of a brutal war they’re managing these systems.
It’s GG if we fall that far and I don’t think we will. My biases are more Aristotelian so I’ll bet on the institutions that build and run these power houses. It is a manageable threshold for our present civilization in a way I intend to preserve and pass on.
Not everyone should have reactors but where there are competent engineers who are thinking in generations, we should. Modernists need to take the stewardship of these generators much more seriously than other noise. Existing reactors are a great gift and inheritance from competent people who not only dreamed bigger but lived in ways that were fundamentally aligned.