SeattleRain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This plant, had it exploded in the 1970’s, would have made New York and Washington DC uninhabitable.
SeattleRain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This plant, had it exploded in the 1970’s, would have made New York and Washington DC uninhabitable.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Seeing as a PWR isn’t really capable of exploding in the way you’re describing, horseshit. At worst, it can flash boil a bunch of water and melt. Besides that, the containment building alone is miles better than anything the USSR ever commissioned. All you need to do to have a safe reactor is to take the goddamn people out of it.
SeattleRain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No it’s true. During clean up they were about to use a crane inside the reactor to lift a steel lid that had not been inspected that was damaged during the meltdown. The FBI stopped them at the last minute. Had the core touched the water during a meltdown it would have spread a radioactive cloud over DC and New York with enough Fallout to force them to be abandoned like Chernobyl
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I see you’ve watched a single special on Netflix and consider yourself an expert on the matter. Good for you.
As a welder who has actually fabricated parts for nuclear reactors, you don’t know shit about ass. The core always touches water, that’s how a PWR works. Any void whatsoever in the core would displace the water that acts as a moderator and instantly shut down any reaction.
lemba@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Nuclear energy produces waste that burdens present and virtually all future generations. There is no operating repository anywhere in the world. And even if there were, the question of the risks to future generations will always be one that, from today’s perspective, can only be answered in a projection-based manner. Positing that the issues of final disposal and long-term safety for the next one million years have been technically solved is thus insufficient. (base.bund.de/…/1109-brussels-nuclear-energy-is-no…)