• @Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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        12 years ago

        And France is doing perfectly fine with it except for skimping on maintenance and also them coming up on their end-of-life without replacement

        • Nobsi
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          12 years ago

          Half of them were off at some point which means they lost over a third of their entire energy production which means they had to import a ton.
          Some of them are still not back online.

        • @AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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          92 years ago

          To be fair, though, the top comment said “nothing wrong” and the guy just followed up with the wrong

          I still think we have access to this energy source and are basically just ignoring it so oil and coal and continue to soak up tax payer funded subsidies and ruin our planet.

          • @eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works
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            32 years ago

            Almost anything has the potential to negatively affect tens of thousands of people when it’s managed as recklessly and negligently as Chernobyl.

            Chernobyl was less a reactor and more a bomb with a very long fuse. Saying we shouldn’t build nuclear reactors today is like saying you shouldn’t take a modern cruise because 14th century sailing ships sank all the time.

            • @Spambox@sh.itjust.works
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              32 years ago

              37 years since that single nuclear accident that devastated the site and left around 2600 Square kilometres around it still unsafe to be in nearly 4 decades later.