> I had repeatedly been told that a modern (post-Chernobyl) reactor was simply incapable of these failures modes Fukushima was commissioned in 1971. Chernobyl

> I had repeatedly been told that a modern (post-Chernobyl) reactor was simply incapable of these failures modes Fukushima was commissioned in 1971. Chernobyl happened in 1986. I would not call the design a "post-Chernobyl" reactor. I can recommend the section on the wiki page for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Warnings_and_design_critique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe... > I had even, ignorantly, parroted back I think this is probably the root cause ;)