BurningPenguin t1_ja87kr2 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 3:57 PM

Reply to comment by 547610831 in The Dream of Mini Nuclear Plants Hangs in the Balance by OutlandishnessOk2452

> Quite frankly a lot of nuclear regulations DECREASE safety

Name one

> Chemical leaks are a daily occurrence to the point they rarely make the news.

Maybe in the US...

> The regulations against radiation are thousands of times stricter than those against most chemical carcinogens

Again, something that might be a US thing

> Even the worst case scenario with nuclear you're talking tens of deaths. Lots of chemical spills have killed thousands and they kill hundreds of thousands in terms of long term exposures.

Oh, so nuclear accidents have no long term effect now. Nice.

Sure, nuclear appears to be quite safe nowadays, but let's not pretend that a major accident has less consequences than chemical spills. I live in Bavaria and our mushrooms are still radioactive.

547610831 t1_ja88cn7 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 4:02 PM

>I live in Bavaria and our mushrooms are still radioactive.

Everything is radioactive my guy. If you brought a pallet of bananas into a nuclear plant it would have to be disposed of as nuclear waste due to the radiation level. Regardless, Chernobyl killed less people than coal plants do every day. And it's much less an indictment of nuclear as it is Communism and the Soviet Union. No reactor like that is currently operating.

BurningPenguin t1_jabfv66 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:31 AM

So, you can't name a regulation that decreases safety. Got it.

Also, news flash: Mushrooms and wild animals aren't bananas. And I'm quite sure even bananas don't contain a considerable amount Cesium-137.

>No reactor like that is currently operating.

Almost like those "unsafe" safety regulations are working as intended.