Nuclear regulation is way to strict, based on flawed science that assumes that there’s no minimum safe dose of nuclear radiation. We could make nuclear power much cheaper if we changed those regulations.
Posted by utilit_aria
Nuclear regulation is way to strict, based on flawed science that assumes that there’s no minimum safe dose of nuclear radiation. We could make nuclear power much cheaper if we changed those regulations.
Posted by utilit_aria
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No thanks. Nuclear energy should be tightly regulated. Unless Hyman Rickover comes back from the dead to personally oversea every nuclear power plant, I have no interest in cutting nuclear safety regulations.
As someone who works in the nuclead industry, this proposal missies some of the highest cost reasons that we deal with.
1. Training. Nuke workers need to obtain and maintain qualifications which means you need a dedicated training authority to set standards and local training personnel.
2. Waste. Not just the big stuff, but the small stuff generated every single day. As much fun as it would be to drop all regulations and loosen the controls on handling and disposing of it, im not sure its a great idea. Thr vast majority of the material probably reads background or near background but we either control it, or go through a costly process to release it with gamma counters and isotopic analysis. Its just not worth it for most of the disposable material.
3. Equipment. Very few companies make the instruments and specialized tooling we use so they charge out the ass for it. A real, effective and accurate RADIAC is actually a fairly simple machine, but we get charged a ton and need a ton of them.
4. Other reasons. Im tired and i decided to stop at 3.
Regulations are only a part of the equation. The industry itself is just very expensive.