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Chernobyl was terrible design, and we’ve come a long way. Fukushima would be a better example of a modern design failing, and even then there are much more faul
by LyndsySimon 8y ago
Chernobyl was terrible design, and we’ve come a long way. Fukushima would be a better example of a modern design failing, and even then there are much more fault-tolerant designs.
We certainly aren’t going to be building any more Chernobyls for commercial power generation.
- NeutronStar 8y agoFukushima uses a 50 years old design.
- leeoniya 8y agoJapan is somewhat forced to build nuclear plants in a very seismically active zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire
- cryoshon 8y agochernobyl had known reactor design flaws at the time of the accident. even then, there were designs for fail-safe reactors instead of fail-deadly reactors. those have only improved with time.
- AngryData 8y agoI wouldn't consider Fukishima modern either, it began construction in 1967, with the actual design plans being a bit older. That is like 25 years from the first nuclear reactors, we are now 50 years of research and technology beyond fukishima. Yeah it has had some upgrades, but you can only modify an already existent reactor design so much.