Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:55 am
Imperial Joseon wrote:Grenartia wrote:
Ok, let me just take all of this head on.
First, no nuclear reactor has ever been able to be "Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2.0". Yes, that includes Chernobyl.
Second, Chernobyl was an outdated design without passive safety features that was being operated in a manner that was basically ASKING for a meltdown. Modern Gen 3 and 4 reactors are fail safe, and many Gen 4 designs are physically impossible to meltdown.
Fukushima incident, too.
I know you have changed your opinion but I want to clarify what happened there.
Fukushima got hit by a massive quake, one it was no designed to actually take (it was designed to take a less strong earthquake and keep producing electricity though the building itself was built to withstand the actual earthquake, and did). Due to the quake, the reactor properly started to shut down, but doing so meant that it was no longer producing electricity to cool the reaction (bad design there) and so of course switched to emergency power provided by diesel generators which worked until the plant got hit by a massive tsunami that the plant was also not designed for, taking out the backup generators. It was only after these backups where taken out that issues began to occur. When the tsunami flooded where the first set of generators were, they attempted to switch to a second set of backup generators that where higher up but those too had been flooded and so could not work, and due to the earthquake messing up roads and the such, backups from outside where delayed in reaching the plant. In essence, this powerplant had backups for the backups for the backups and they all failed due to the sheer severity of the quake and then tsunami as well as issues with the design.