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What is your idea of a catastrophic failure? A nuclear detonation? Because that actually can't happen. Not because there is some gizmo preventing it that might

What is your idea of a catastrophic failure? A nuclear detonation? Because that actually can't happen. Not because there is some gizmo preventing it that might one day fail, but because it actually, physically can not happen. Is it a meltdown? That has already happened at Fukushima, and didn't end up being catastrophic. At least not compared to catastrophes like tsunamis and earthquakes.

dboreham 5y ago
Analysis of the Chernobyl accident suggests that this is not quite true https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1384269 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...
gpm 5y ago
It's described in the article I linked in the comment two above, I'll link it again here. A steam explosion spreading orders of magnitude more radiation than Chernobyl had already (which was prevented by people entering the reactor in the days immediately after the first explosion). https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-millions https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-million... Incidentally, nuclear detonations can happen, and there is some belief that very small ones did happen in Chernobyl, but the type of the explosion is really besides the point.
- joecool1029 5y ago
  >Incidentally, nuclear detonations can happen, and there is some belief that very small ones did happen in Chernobyl, but the type of the explosion is really besides the point. If you're going to make the claim that this is possible, we need a source. > https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-million https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-million... Preferably not a source that uses 'bible prophecy'.
  - gpm 5y ago
    Lol, I just dug up the first article I could find, admittedly didn't check the news source. But that source isn't for the claim you're quoting... that's for the (well known) claim that Chernobyl could have gone much worse if not for remdiation efforts, it shouldn't be hard to find alternate sources for that claim. For the claim you're quoting, see the paper cited in the sibling comment to mine. Edit: For completeness I'll relink that paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1384269 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...

dboreham 5y ago

Analysis of the Chernobyl accident suggests that this is not quite true https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1384269 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...

gpm 5y ago

It's described in the article I linked in the comment two above, I'll link it again here. A steam explosion spreading orders of magnitude more radiation than Chernobyl had already (which was prevented by people entering the reactor in the days immediately after the first explosion). https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-millions https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-million... Incidentally, nuclear detonations can happen, and there is some belief that very small ones did happen in Chernobyl, but the type of the explosion is really besides the point.

joecool1029 5y ago
>Incidentally, nuclear detonations can happen, and there is some belief that very small ones did happen in Chernobyl, but the type of the explosion is really besides the point. If you're going to make the claim that this is possible, we need a source. > https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-million https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-million... Preferably not a source that uses 'bible prophecy'.
- gpm 5y ago
  Lol, I just dug up the first article I could find, admittedly didn't check the news source. But that source isn't for the claim you're quoting... that's for the (well known) claim that Chernobyl could have gone much worse if not for remdiation efforts, it shouldn't be hard to find alternate sources for that claim. For the claim you're quoting, see the paper cited in the sibling comment to mine. Edit: For completeness I'll relink that paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1384269 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...