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Subject The real risk with nuclear power

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Original Message The thing about nuclear power is, you don't get to make a mistake.

But, these plants are run by bureaucracies. Anyone with real talent does not want to work for a bureaucracy. To move up, you need to be a non-threatening (IE - no talent) kiss-ass only worried about his own career.

People with that resume cannot manage risk nor can they act boldly when needed. For example, TEPCO was warned for years that the sea wall was too low. Nothing was done.

Why? Because some bureaucrat somewhere did not want to exceed his budget, nor did he want to tell his boss he needed money to build the sea wall. Safest thing for him was to tell the boss what he wanted to hear, and put the risk of disaster on everyone else.

Nuke power - might be safe. Bureaucracies? They are awful when they run the post office. They bring depressions when they run banks (US debt crisis). They cause oil spills when they run deep water drilling (BP). They kill people when they run auto builders. (remember Toyota and the brakes?)

When they run nuclear plants? They bring worldwide doom. Another Chernobyl or Fukushima or TMI is inevitable, not from the tech, but from the people.

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