3 ms·
> Not sure about the other ones, but the ones in (East) Germany were decomissioned presto after reunification Which was completely unjustified. I visited that
by cbmuser 6y ago
> Not sure about the other ones, but the ones in (East) Germany were decomissioned presto after reunification
Which was completely unjustified. I visited that plant and the engineers there confirmed me that the VVER-440/213 is safer than all the BWR designs in West-Germany.
- corty 6y agoIt is a law of engineering that every engineer will claim his code is the most efficient, his car the best and hist nuclear power plant the safest. WWER-440 has no closed safety vessel, poor emergency cooling and no redundancy to speak of. It is a PWR design that is maybe on par with a poor western BWR. Also, all the reactors in West Germany were continually retrofitted, especially after the lessons learned due to Czernobyl. That wasn't feasible for a Sowjet design during the breakup of the Sowjet Union (while a lot was built in the GDR, there was also a lot that would have been imported).