On 25/02/2021 10:10, Tim Streater wrote:
On 25 Feb 2021 at 09:58:35 GMT, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:31:29 +0000, Spike wrote:

On 24/02/2021 14:37, T i m wrote:
Steve Walker wrote:

Except of course that nuclear power plants have the normal,
programmable (and therefore fallible and hackable - despite being
locked down) control systems backed up (for the critical safety
systems) by multiple,
dedicated, hard-wired safety systems, which in turn are backed up by
fail-safe mechanical systems. And the designs, calculations and
permutations are pored over by the Nuclear, Process, Mechanical and
Control Engineers that do the designs, the Safety Engineers that
oversee the documenting of the safety systems, their equivalents in
multiple companies working on the project and finally the Office for
Nuclear Regulation.

Yet 'accidents' have happened?

More people have been killed in motorcycle accidents than by nuclear
power generation, but that didn't stop your biking years, did it?

More people are killed on our roads in any one year than have died from
whatever illegal drugs you care to include in the "war on drugs" since
the 1960s.

Best not to try and introduce facts to arguments sometimes. You always
come off worse ....

Especially where T r o l l is concerned.

He's already been told, yet chooses to ignore, that although the Chernobyl
reactor was a bad design, it took a lot of deliberate actions on the part of
the plant operators to render it unsafe, and that three other reactors (of the
same design) ran for some years after 1986 without incident.



9 are *still running*, albeit somewhat modified

Kursk 1-4
Leningrad 3 and 4
Smolensk 1-3



--
In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act.

- George Orwell