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Seems impossible to make it meltdown and explode. Shutting off the coolant just makes it automatically SCRAM. No incoming tsunamis threaten to swamp your diesel

Seems impossible to make it meltdown and explode. Shutting off the coolant just makes it automatically SCRAM. No incoming tsunamis threaten to swamp your diesel generators, no xenon pits to slowly climb out of. Booooring. ;-)

Obscurity4340 3y ago
My biggest beef with nuclear (and I've always said this) is its just so unsexy. No mushroom shapes, no passionate explosions followed by restful oblivion at the end. Its just reliable and faithful and keeps on pluggin' away. I like to live a little dangerously, and you should too!
- jplrssn 3y ago
  I'm not so sure. There was a news article today about a leaky storage site for nuclear waste, coincidentally not too far from Manchester. [0] There are more ways than explosions to cause ecological devastation. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-...
- dekhn 3y ago
  Nuclear isn't just reliable and faithful and just keeps on plugging away- the modern reactor designs require extraordinary engineering to be reliable and require continuous maintanence and monitoring.
  - Obscurity4340 3y ago
    That too, I don't normally indulge in high-maintenance ;)
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  The foreplay also takes like 10-15 years, c'mon?!
rzzzt 3y ago
There are some user-submitted levels in The Powder Toy that cover a subset of your requirements: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=5170 https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=5170
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francisofascii 3y ago
They should have a "Chernobyl mode" where it CAN happen. Add graphite tips to the control rods (or whatever else was the problem)
benjojo12 3y ago
I am one of the programmers that worked on this port back in 2013, I can assure you that we (the programmers) also wanted to make a scenario where the plant would explode, however given it was designed to promote nuclear technology to school children (generally speaking), the people funding the project were not so keen to have nuclear technology shown off in that way!
- einpoklum 3y ago
  > however given it was designed to promote nuclear technology to school children ... and that was not a problem for you ethically?
  - azan_ 3y ago
    What ethical problem would you have here?
krelas 3y ago
Yeah at least let us put graphite tips on the control rods.

Obscurity4340 3y ago

My biggest beef with nuclear (and I've always said this) is its just so unsexy. No mushroom shapes, no passionate explosions followed by restful oblivion at the end. Its just reliable and faithful and keeps on pluggin' away. I like to live a little dangerously, and you should too!

jplrssn 3y ago
I'm not so sure. There was a news article today about a leaky storage site for nuclear waste, coincidentally not too far from Manchester. [0] There are more ways than explosions to cause ecological devastation. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-...
dekhn 3y ago
Nuclear isn't just reliable and faithful and just keeps on plugging away- the modern reactor designs require extraordinary engineering to be reliable and require continuous maintanence and monitoring.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  That too, I don't normally indulge in high-maintenance ;)
Obscurity4340 3y ago
The foreplay also takes like 10-15 years, c'mon?!

rzzzt 3y ago

There are some user-submitted levels in The Powder Toy that cover a subset of your requirements: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=5170 https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=5170

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francisofascii 3y ago

They should have a "Chernobyl mode" where it CAN happen. Add graphite tips to the control rods (or whatever else was the problem)

benjojo12 3y ago

I am one of the programmers that worked on this port back in 2013, I can assure you that we (the programmers) also wanted to make a scenario where the plant would explode, however given it was designed to promote nuclear technology to school children (generally speaking), the people funding the project were not so keen to have nuclear technology shown off in that way!

einpoklum 3y ago
> however given it was designed to promote nuclear technology to school children ... and that was not a problem for you ethically?
- azan_ 3y ago
  What ethical problem would you have here?

krelas 3y ago

Yeah at least let us put graphite tips on the control rods.