Originally Posted by taosaur
The risks of fission plants seem like a decent trade-off for the certain damage done by coal, but I'm made a little nervous by the proximity of a plant that allowed a football-sized hole to corrode through their concrete lid, leaving 1/8" of bulging steel between me and a pressurized jet of irradiated vapor. Best anyone can tell, management was friendly with the inspectors and enforced a "don't ask, don't tell" maintenance policy internally.
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