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Both Chernobyl's RBMK and Fukushima's GE BWR reactors are widely used standard designs.
by fsh 7y ago
Both Chernobyl's RBMK and Fukushima's GE BWR reactors are widely used standard designs.
- AstralStorm 7y agoRBMK were. They're over 50 year old designs now. Fukushima was just 30 years old also generation 2 (but improved) BWR, not the old GE BWR either. The reactors under way are generation III+, notably safer, and further improvements are being made. And many of the reactors now are PWR.
- lucb1e 7y agoChernobyl was a combination of issues and can't really happen again today. Fukushima is bad but very few people died (counting those that'll get cancer). Many, many, many more people die from the pollution caused by coal every year, and many, many more will die from global warming. If one such failure amongst hundreds of reactors active for over fifty years is the price of saving millions every year, then so be it. We should use solar/wind/water to the full extent possible but not exclude nuclear energy, especially with the latest factor designs. And you can bet that Japan learned from Fukushima and that it's very unlikely that'll reoccur as well. Plus, most reactors aren't built near major fault lines, so this failure isn't even possible in most places. Let's not kill millions because of a TV drama. It's news exactly because it's rare, that's why you don't hear of people dying while installing roof solar or from air pollution.