Comment Re:Free markets? (Score 1) 576
> At least in our "Free Market" system,
> we thought to build containment structures.
Do you think that containment structures would have been built without Federal safety regulations? What would have happened in a truly free market would have been many companies cutting corners; maybe not containment structures per se, but less visible subsystems such as redundant cooling loops, control systems, and operating procedures.
The free marketers would say that having Three Mile Island blow up Chernobyl-style once every 50 years would be enough justification to not have containment structures.
> we thought to build containment structures.
Do you think that containment structures would have been built without Federal safety regulations? What would have happened in a truly free market would have been many companies cutting corners; maybe not containment structures per se, but less visible subsystems such as redundant cooling loops, control systems, and operating procedures.
The free marketers would say that having Three Mile Island blow up Chernobyl-style once every 50 years would be enough justification to not have containment structures.
