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You can't really compare ChNPP (or any RBMK) to any modern reactor. It did not have a containment building.
by sascha_sl 7y ago
You can't really compare ChNPP (or any RBMK) to any modern reactor. It did not have a containment building.
- gmueckl 7y agoThe Fukushima reactors had containment buildings, but other fatal design flaws. We know these flaws and their consequemces now in hindsight. But we can only tolerate so many accidents with containment failures on one planet and all we can realistically do is increase the mean time between accidents through engineering.
- wallace_f 7y agoSo few people die from nuclear relative to coal.
- Luc 7y agoHow many atmospheric nuclear weapons explosions could we tolerate? Certainly more than 500, since that's how many were conducted. We're still here.
- gmueckl 7y agoHow many of them were above ground with a substantial release of long lived isotopes? IIRC the ban of atmospheric weapon tests came quite quickly.
- javagram 7y ago512 nukes were detonated in atmosphere during the era of nuclear weapons testing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing#Hist...
- pimmen 7y agoOne person has been confirmed to have died after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The fatal design flaw of building cities next to water however killed thousands of people from the tsunami.