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I posted this before, but I feel it's worth re-iterating: There will never be another Chernobyl. It was a perfect intersection of criminally inadequate design,
by michaelchisari 16y ago
I posted this before, but I feel it's worth re-iterating: There will never be another Chernobyl. It was a perfect intersection of criminally inadequate design, early-adopter naivete, incompetence, and Murphy's Law.
Not least of which was the fact that Chernobyl had no containment (!!), and was running at peak (3200MW) as opposed to Fukushima Daiichi's 5% capacity (25MW).
A comparison to Three Mile Island is totally valid, but Chernobyl is literally off the table.
- orblivion 16y agoI think we're way past TMI by now right?
- blahblahblah 16y agoThe statement that "the risk of recriticality is not zero" in the fuel pond of reactor 4 means that a Chernobyl-like event is still on the table with very small but nonzero probability.