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It's not about which one is safer. At this point we have a deep understanding of what can go wrong in a PWR or BWR, with part of this knowledge deriving from a
by littlestymaar 3y ago
It's not about which one is safer.
At this point we have a deep understanding of what can go wrong in a PWR or BWR, with part of this knowledge deriving from accidents (TMI and Fukuahima) and smaller incidents.
And we've developed a significant amount of mitigations and operators training to cope with these potential failures.
Doing the same thing for breeder isn't trivial at all.
I studied nuclear engineering ( before changing path in 2011 due to Fukushima) with one of my teacher having worked on SuperPhénix, and my wife is a nuclear engineer specializing in accident scenarios and operators training at EDF, so I'm actually pretty familiar with the topic.