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Bill gives $25 billion for the nuclear industry!
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"Karnobyl" nuclear plant... watch it melt down when you make the wrong move to solve the simulated nuclear power plant failure. I am not sure if this is a game or a propaganda piece against nuclear power. Congratulations to the authors on a clever game idea that is truly scary.
Systems that take care of humans must embody the ultimate in safety. Elevators, for example, when all fails will lock themselves in place (this nearly prevents the extremely rare occurrence of a falling elevator). What can keep as complex a system as a nuclear plant "safe"? I don't think there is a way to do it. One nuclear failure is a great disaster... and it will happen, even in France, home of the experts on nuclear power.
Nuclear safety will always require human performance at a high, nearly perfect, level, as well as idealized assumptions about long-term radioactive waste disposal, terrorism resistance, and so on. In contrast, imagine a terrorist taking over a wind turbine! Not much to fear. But the cost of nuclear failure due to leaks, meltdowns, or outside attack, can not be measured... along with human suffering, the result would be near-permanent loss of land use for a large area (such as Chernobyl). This is not a way to build an alternative energy industry, is it? Am I missing something? Please prove to me that nuclear power is clean and safe, let alone affordable.
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