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Similarly, the Russian RBMK nuclear reactors were designed for dual purpose: Producing electricity and producing weapons grade plutonium. Following your argumen
by sampo 6y ago
Similarly, the Russian RBMK nuclear reactors were designed for dual purpose: Producing electricity and producing weapons grade plutonium. Following your argument, we should weight down the Chernobyl disaster, when counting statistics for nuclear power?
- aaron695 6y agoCan you cite where the Chernobyl disaster was made the worse by the weapons grade plutonium production? I have never seen that, but of course you would reduce the numbers. It would be zero, if like some nuclear facilities the electricity was purely a byproduct. Unless I guess something that does the power creates the mess.
- sampo 6y ago> Can you cite where the Chernobyl disaster was made the worse by the weapons grade plutonium production? Plutonium production: Wikipedia right panel: "Primary use Generation of electricity and production of weapon grade plutonium" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK Design safety issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK#Design_flaws_and_safety_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK#Design_flaws_and_safety_i...
- retrac 6y agoThe ease of plutonium production was one of the main reasons they went with the RBMK design. Definitely dual purpose from the beginning. The British and French did it with their early Magnox reactors as well, which have a couple design similarities. Also dual-purpose.