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First two episodes were very good. Not very comforting. The first hours after the accident are hard to believe, but matches other accounts I've read.
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Now I can't wait for a Fukushima disaster TV series to be made.
All the officials behind the massive and ongoing cover-up should perform mass seppuku.
All the officials behind the massive and ongoing cover-up should perform mass seppuku.
One of the responses to the global warming idea is to say that we need more nuclear power and that modern types of reactor are safe, stable, inherently can't go wrong. In fact, I did read someone advocating having one in every town! What's your opinion?I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing isn't done one day.
I've in years past worked in public utilities. Not electrical or nuclear. But it is the same in all of them. It won't get noticed quite as much as nuclear issues. You have disasters simply designed in and waiting to happen. Almost always there are people who can see it from years away and try to get it changed. Bureaucracy interferes and nothing happens until the disaster occurs. At which point people from the outside are almost incredulous that something so stupid could have been done or that something so stupid was done in handling the disaster. Worse the bureaucratic response is often to implement some onerous rule to prevent it in the future, and about as often as not the rule actually isn't effective either. But everyone feels like something was done so they can't be held responsible for doing nothing.
The big deal with Chernobyl is running nuclear reactors without containment vessels. With a containment vessel this would have been a notable accident, but nothing like what it became.
You're right, and it didn't help that the reactor used graphite and had a positive void coefficient. Criminally unsafe design.The big deal with Chernobyl is running nuclear reactors without containment vessels. With a containment vessel this would have been a notable accident, but nothing like what it became.
One of the responses to the global warming idea is to say that we need more nuclear power and that modern types of reactor are safe, stable, inherently can't go wrong. In fact, I did read someone advocating having one in every town! What's your opinion?