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Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear accident in US history. Was mainly caused by poor design of human feedback systems which caused operational confusion and lead to a catastrophic failure.

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Batteries scale horribly and are extremely toxic themselves.

SOME parts of Europe are cheap some are expensive and are subject to bad price spikes.

The reality is we need everything. More solar/wind is great! But we also need secure stable baseline generation that works. Nothing comes close to nuclear.