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> "For the NuScale design, the safety analysis shows that core damage does not occur during any design basis event.", says the application. What could possibly
by blattimwind 7y ago
> "For the NuScale design, the safety analysis shows that core damage does not occur during any design basis event.", says the application. What could possibly go wrong?
The thing with nuclear reactors is that this sentence was thought to be true for most designs, including those that failed to varying degrees (RBMK, GE BWR, B&W PWR).
- jason0597 7y agoYou're going to have to show the reports that said such things ("core damage does not occur during any design basis event") for those old designs
- blattimwind 7y agoIt's more or less a tautology, because the most severe accident the reactor is thought to withstand is the design-basis event. AFAIK in the instances of Fukushima and Chernobyl/RBMK it was later thought that the design basis was simply incorrect.