While you’re right about the nitty gritty specifics of the case, the nuclear industry needs no help spreading fear of itself. Fukushima happened 13 years ago. Not exactly ancient history. Worst nuclear disaster of all time.
That being said, I don’t think the nuclear industry of today should be hamstrung by Soviet incompetence and corruption from the 1950s. I mean these guys at this location were running open loop cooling circuits into the lake and river. We know better than this nowadays.
And has since been learned from. That reactor design is no longer used, specifically because of that. It would take more than just negligence to get a modern reactor to fail. Spreading fear of nuclear benefits no one and harms everyone.
While you’re right about the nitty gritty specifics of the case, the nuclear industry needs no help spreading fear of itself. Fukushima happened 13 years ago. Not exactly ancient history. Worst nuclear disaster of all time.
Unless there’s some data I’m missing, I would think Chernobyl was much, much worse
“Worst” you just forgot Chernobyl and Maya but ok
For those of you who were confused by Maya, like me, it is the Mayak or Kyshtyn accident.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
That being said, I don’t think the nuclear industry of today should be hamstrung by Soviet incompetence and corruption from the 1950s. I mean these guys at this location were running open loop cooling circuits into the lake and river. We know better than this nowadays.
And has since been learned from. That reactor design is no longer used, specifically because of that. It would take more than just negligence to get a modern reactor to fail. Spreading fear of nuclear benefits no one and harms everyone.
Yeah, Fukushima was almost as bad as climate change! Good thing we phased out nuclear to focus on fossil fuels!
Never said that I m actually pro nuclear but I had to say that Fukushima wasn’t the worst nuclear accident