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Hanford was for nuclear production, not power generation, and was created during the early days of nuclear weapons research. Modern reactors are in an entirely
by manigandham 6y ago
Hanford was for nuclear production, not power generation, and was created during the early days of nuclear weapons research.
Modern reactors are in an entirely different league with an incredible safety record. [1] Considering how easy it is to detect nuclear failures and the consequences in a tightly-enclosed ship, it's unlikely that there are any serious incidents. It's clear that they're experience and technology is continuing to get better every year though.
1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/12/23/americas-nuclear-navy-still-the-masters-of-nuclear-power/#5ee0d3466bcd https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/12/23/americas-...
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Hanford was for nuclear production, not power generation, and was created during the early days of nuclear weapons research. I'm not saying that Hanford has the same risk profile as Naval reactors, I’m saying that it demonstrates that the US government has a propensity for covering up nuclear incidents that it can get away with covering up (note that it also acknowledged other incidents at Hanford in the decades it was concealing many of them), so the fact that it hasn't acknowledged any related to naval power generation since a bunch in the 1970s is absence of evidence of such incidents, but not reliable evidence of absence of such incidents.