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It also helps to not be running a reactor based on designs from the 1950s and then decades later ignore all the known potential problems.
by AngryData 6y ago
It also helps to not be running a reactor based on designs from the 1950s and then decades later ignore all the known potential problems.
- _jal 6y agoIt does, but it makes sense to explore fail-safe designs. Depending on a lack of incompetence in dangerous systems works until it doesn't. To the extent that these things can simply halt when incompetently managed, they should. If anyone disagrees, I'd like to know why they think the next hundred years are going to be so much freer of political shortsightedness and corruption than the last hundred.
- cameldrv 6y agoFukishima is a perfect example. Unit 1 had been retrofitted with an isolation condenser, which should have been able to prevent a meltdown even with no power, but it wasn't activated, for reasons that remain murky.
- Gravityloss 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_condensor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_condensor Sounds like a quite simple design indeed, and only one valve opening away from use?