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"Seven years ago I ended my first documentary on Chernobyl with these words: „An immense experience, not comparable to anything else. Silence, lack of cries, l
by chinathrow 11y ago
"Seven years ago I ended my first documentary on Chernobyl with these words:
„An immense experience, not comparable to anything else. Silence, lack of cries, laughter, tears and only the wind answers. Prypiat is a huge lesson for our generation.”
Have we learnt anything since then?"
That makes one think.
- fridek 11y agoWe have learnt to not put reactors on top of the water tanks, and to not shutdown all safety systems to see if the plant explodes.
- gus_massa 11y agoI agree. I'd like to add: don't use graphite as a moderator, because it can burn in case of a fire. Chernobyl had many known design problems ever before it exploded. It's misleading to imply that it was consider a good design before. There is a comment with more details from pdkl95 >> Chernobyl > The RBMC design was always known to be an absolutely terrible idea because it's use of graphite as a moderator that required active cooling, creating an inherently unsafe positive void coefficient[1]. Read the complete comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10257459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10257459