Fissile Thorium Reactor

[Occhidiangela]

Well, I can and I will. It's not the black and white of nuclear good/bad, it's k's preposterous statement that 30 years ago would have been nice.

Nuclear is safe now. Or I should say, nuclear is safe enough now. And it's been that way for 10-15 years (sometime in the 90's). Exactly when safe enough occurred depends on your own personal definition of safe enough.

The nuclear of 1970's was not safe enough.

Horseapples. Post hoc much?

Your arbitrary paranoia hardly substitutes for sober risk management.

Would you build a 1970's reactor today? Definitely not.

Just as I wouldn't build a P-51 Mustang for my front line fighter. Nor would I make cars with plate glass for windows. Nor would I build cars without seatbelts. That doesn't mean one should not build cars, planes, etc.

The safe enough standard was met decades ago, though I welcome any process improvement that reduces risks.

Safer works for me.

Van, here's a mental exercise for you: consider the entire population of operationg nuclear plants, circa 1978, in the US alone, and the number up for licensing, and try to sell anyone who isn't paranoid that it wasn't "safe enough." (I commented in the other thread on one I am familiar with, the North Anna plant in Virginia. )

You might want to stop standing is as exhibit A of hardheaded nuclear ostrich.

Occhi