Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "Good News: Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors are Coming to Europe" video.

  1. The overruns and slipped schedules will be AT LEAST as bad because, just like every project I've been involved with from nuke plants to smaller ones, the vendors will lie about costs, the what-used-to-be-called AE (architect/engineer) group doing the integration design, the engineers and techs on the site, the craft on the site, and anyone else involved will STILL have the tacit desire to LIE THEIR BUTTS OFF to ensure a long gravy train throughout the entire process. And, I'm talking about Lies of Commission and Lies of Omission. In case I hear the ole "but why would they lie and jeopardize the project?!?!", I point to VW and the diesel HIGH CRIME, ENRON and it's idiocy, and Siemens and their HUGE bribery scandals. I can include any number of incompetent/looking out for their paycheck US nuclear projects and equipment vendors/AE Firms, too.
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  2. It's not, but the tech boys, project managers, financiers, politicians, and bureaucrats who screwed up the last 'nuclear wave' didn't have hucksters selling this particular brand of nuclear hokum until now.  @JZsBFF 
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  3. Yeah, all over Europe, which really shouldn't have decommissioned the existing stations but let them run to EOL, then not replace. What's the chance the 'economic and technical expertise' has improved ANY since those prior disastrous decisions?? I wouldn't trust the faceless, never-prosecuted bureaucrats and engineers, all lying tacitly and explicitly, to make a competent decision. They're all too tied up in ensuring their future paychecks and mortgages and car payments and kids to higher education to trust with the REAL MONETARY DECISIONS. I've seen it happen from the outside AND inside. Technical 'experts' and 'project managers' will always defend their actions using obfuscation and smokescreens, regardless of how 'holy and honest' too many people assume they are.
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