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Despite rigorous engineering, you still get: Fukushima Daiichi Chernobyl Three Mile Island Enrico Fermi Unit 1 SL-1 Sodium Reactor Experiment Windscale
by adfm 8y ago
Despite rigorous engineering, you still get:
Fukushima Daiichi
Chernobyl
Three Mile Island
Enrico Fermi Unit 1
SL-1
Sodium Reactor Experiment
Windscale
via https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-power-accidents/history-nuclear-accidents#.XGYa3KSIYlQ https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-power-accidents...
- jhayward 8y agoYou are omitting the whole next layer, which is all the plants that were run in "risk-enhancing mode" but just by chance didn't have a catastrophic accident. Davis-Besse's corroded pressure vessel head, which was covered up for 6 years before being reported, is a good example.
- adfm 8y agoMy bad. Thanks for bringing that up. Also, we're just now getting to see spent fuel at Fukushima? http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902140041.html http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902140041.html Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Yes, total clickbait, but still.