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In reply to the discussion: Reason for and a critical question about 2012's 6.9% decline in nuclear production [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)40. More like either illiteracy or deliberate misdirection on your part
"A sample size of 2" is what you need to reconsider. You can dispute it all you want but the fact remains that the observed failure rate for nuclear reactors is far higher than you are suggesting. You are engaging in a form of data trimming that is explicitly designed to suggest a higher level of performance than the history of nuclear power has delivered. The fact that reactor designs vary widely is true, but so is the fact that the 26 relevant failures are spread across the range of designs with one common element - human imperfection.
This discussion shreds the premise you are trying to deploy: http://www.democraticunderground.com/112759049#post23
This discussion shreds the premise you are trying to deploy: http://www.democraticunderground.com/112759049#post23
Just one more in your long long long long list of making false claims about what others have written.
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Reason for and a critical question about 2012's 6.9% decline in nuclear production [View all]
kristopher
Dec 2013
OP
Anyone familiar with near misses like Davis Besse knows that we've just been lucky.
kristopher
Dec 2013
#32
Right.That football sized hole in Davis Besse's reactor head is something the Japanese did.
kristopher
Dec 2013
#37
'Shoot the messenger' is THE go to strategy the nuclear industry uses against any and all critics.
kristopher
Dec 2013
#47
The consequences are clear enough. 2013 is going to be the worst year for accumulation of...
NNadir
Dec 2013
#29
Why on earth would a smart guy like you have expected "this time" to be different?
GliderGuider
Dec 2013
#45