To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'
I'm a real estate guy.
I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.