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They do not blow up in the sense of a nuclear explosion. It's a normal explosion. With normal consequences.
by Nimitz14 7y ago
They do not blow up in the sense of a nuclear explosion. It's a normal explosion. With normal consequences.
- jhayward 7y agoWhen you blow up a bunch of radioactive material in a large steam explosion you get widespread contamination from fallout and a massive cleanup necessary to recover the scattered material, as well as dealing with the melted core material. That's not "normal".
- anoncake 7y agoThey blow up in the sense of a dirty bomb. That's a lot worse. It would be great if NPPs just blew up in a nuclear explosion! We could safely use them by making the blast radius a forbidden zone.
- Nimitz14 7y ago> They blow up in the sense of a dirty bomb. That's a lot worse. It would be great if NPPs just blew up in a nuclear explosion! We could safely use them by making the blast radius a forbidden zone. I do not know how to respond politely to such a ridiculous statement.
- anoncake 7y agoThen please explain impolitely where you think I'm wrong. To clarify: “great” is no absolute, an NPP that generates electricity is obviously better than one that explodes. It also depends on the size of the explosion. A Hiroshima-class explosion would be acceptable, the one of a tsar bomb might not be. Also an NPP that fails like that would still kill its operators and perhaps some unlucky farmers. But compared to the actual worst case, that's negligible.