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I love how you automatically take what is obviously PR speak at face value. Of course they're going to say that. That's what they have to say. It's now 2019. Wh
by jplayer01 7y ago
I love how you automatically take what is obviously PR speak at face value. Of course they're going to say that. That's what they have to say. It's now 2019. When are people going to learn that just because somebody says something doesn't mean it means what you want it to mean.
- paganel 7y agoAccidents like this don’t happen in the West/civilized world, this type of events only happens to people who are less scrupulous and (dare I say) not as intelligent as our scientists are. On a more serious note, the “Chernobyl” tv series needs to be commended for showing that institutional lying and hiding things under the rug is indeed a global phenomenon, its viewers’ reaction shows that.
- hanniabu 7y agoI don't see this as much different than what's going on in the US where most of the nuclear plants are running past their design life and have cracks in the concrete that they hand wave and increase the allowable tolerance for. Nuclear plants are very expensive to build. This incentivizes bending the rules and taking chances to continue running them past the point where they should be shut down.
- effie 7y agoOr the UK, where the reactor graphite has lots of cracks, but people need power and jobs, so now they're trying to relax the safety limit, you couldn't make this stuff up: > EDF plans to ask the regulator for permission to restart with a new operational limit of up to 700 cracks. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-47485321 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-47485321
- kadendogthing 7y ago>Accidents like this don’t happen in the West/civilized world Surely you must be joking? Am I not reading this correctly?
- dmix 7y agoThe next paragraph starts with "on a serious note". So what do you think?
- kadendogthing 7y agoI think I can't read.