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But it could have been much worse, say like Chernobyl, and it wasn't due to good engineering.
by jackpirate 14y ago
But it could have been much worse, say like Chernobyl, and it wasn't due to good engineering.
- mitchty 14y agoHow could it have been like Chernobyl? The Fukushima reactors didn't have graphite moderators. Totally different reactor technologies, equivocating them is spurious at best.
- tedunangst 14y agoUsing a totally different reactor technology strikes me as an example of good engineering.
- Daniel_Newby 14y agoThe Chernobyl reactor also had no containment vessel, so the initial core failure blew a cloud of radioactive fire into the air. The Fukushima containment vessel kept most of the crap in one place until it could melt into a cohesive mass.
- tsotha 14y agoYou wouldn't get the graphite fly ash that turned Chernobyl from a localized problem into an international headache, so no, it wouldn't have been as bad as Chernobyl. But it could have been much worse than it was.