“Given that we recently had a 5+ earthquake near Mineral, Virginia, and a nearby nuclear plant, I am not sorry that there are at least some government regulations. I’ll bet the Japanese wish there had been more.”
I tend to agree with you. The only worse than having the government continually nag the nuke industry is to leave them alone and let them decide how many meltdowns a year is an acceptable “attrition rate”, as they would call it. I’ve met these operators, the guys in upper management, and that is EXACTLY how they think.
It’s really no different than when the government stopped regulating banks, the same types of people went wild and made loans like crazy that they ALL KNEW would never get paid back per their terms. There are simply some areas of life where unbridled capitalism doesn’t work - not many, but some.
I missed that, you have a link?