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Nuclear reactors do not surprise explode. The Chinese designs are passively safe: cut off all power and they'll simply sit there. They do not require active coo
by XorNot 1y ago
Nuclear reactors do not surprise explode. The Chinese designs are passively safe: cut off all power and they'll simply sit there. They do not require active cooling.
The Gen 4 designs, which they also have, are physics safe: literally drop bombs on them and they still won't fail (bombing a nuclear plant in general is an over stated risk for other reasons too). They're building those now too.
- doublerabbit 1y agoHacks, cyber espionage? So it sounds like the view point of "deal with it when it happens then" and that's what puts me off nuclear. Nuclear is too unstable when something does occur to be contained and as to when dismantled.
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- crote 1y ago> Nuclear reactors do not surprise explode. The Chinese designs are passively safe: cut off all power and they'll simply sit there. They do not require active cooling. The same was said of Fukushima. And it was - until a tsunami fried all the backup local power keeping the control systems alive. Turns out the "passive cooling" still requires some valves to be controllable...
- XorNot 1y agoFukushima was not the same type of design as the new Chinese reactors. For one thing, no reactor is classed as "passively safe" if it needs active cooling for decay heat.