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Human nature is inherently a bit of a crapshoot and progress on that front is slippery, but "make a reactor robust to neglect and abuse" is an engineering probl
by jjoonathan 4y ago
Human nature is inherently a bit of a crapshoot and progress on that front is slippery, but "make a reactor robust to neglect and abuse" is an engineering problem and progress on that front is sticky.
We've gotten much better at this particular engineering problem. For instance, Fukushima was designed in 1967, but if it had been designed in 1972 it would not have had its fatal flaw.
- andbberger 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIGA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIGA
- hunterb123 4y agoFukushima was neglect. As you said we had known those types of tsunamis were possible since 1972, but no additional safety measures were put into place over the decades. There were multiple studies and suggestions ignored a decade before the incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster#2000_and_2008:_Tsunami_studies_ignored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster#200... It wasn't that there was a fundamental flaw with the design, just the sea walls needed to be higher.