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>> Design flaws led to a power surge, causing massive explosions which blew the top off reactor four Anybody else catch this wildly inaccurate representation o
by Floegipoky 10y ago
>> Design flaws led to a power surge, causing massive explosions which blew the top off reactor four
Anybody else catch this wildly inaccurate representation of what caused the explosions? While there certainly were design flaws, it's well-known that this disaster was a direct result of the recklessness of the reactor's operators. I have to wonder if this mischaracterization is an attempt to further scare the public about nuclear power.
- ekun 10y agoThe whole article is written to scare the public about nuclear power.
- InclinedPlane 10y agoIt's unconscionable for such a reactor design to have been made and put into service in the first place. The particular bungled test that caused the disaster was somewhat of an exceptional circumstance but the RBMK design was really just a ticking timebomb waiting to go off. If it wasn't that test it would have been something else, maybe it wouldn't have been as bad, but it would almost certainly have been at least Fukushima scale regardless.