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> There has never been a meltdown of a Gen III reactor yet. > Gen IV are being designed to be impossible to melt down Fukushima was designed to be tsunami-sa
by anoncake 8y ago
> There has never been a meltdown of a Gen III reactor
yet.
> Gen IV are being designed to be impossible to melt down
Fukushima was designed to be tsunami-safe.
Using NPPs risks rendering large areas uninhabitable. Using fossils risks most of Earth. That does make NPPs a better solution in the short term, but relying on them permanently is still madness.
- core-questions 8y ago> Fukushima was designed to be tsunami-safe. If you look at the compromises made in the design, I don't think you can really say that this was the case. Even if so, all it proves is that maybe we should build such reactors in safer places, not on fault lines near the ocean.
- anoncake 8y agoThe people who planned the Fukushima plant made some stupid mistakes. That proves that we shouldn't make stupid mistakes. But that's not possible. Yes, we can mostly avoid past mistakes. Until there is no accident for a while, people become complacent and start cutting costs. We cannot avoid the mistakes we have neither made yet nor thought of.