On 26/02/2021 16:40, newshound wrote:
On 19/02/2021 16:49, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:09:11 +0000, Fredxx wrote:

The two disasters, namely Chernobyl and Fukushima were two disasters
waiting to happen. The lessons are don't operate a reactor with known
design flaws and don't build a reactor by the ocean with a history of
tsunamis.

WEll that rather ****s Japan then ....

Not at all. It was 40 year old designs that failed, because all their
backup generators were on the main raft. Modern designs put them a
little way up the hill, out of reach of any remotely conceivable flooding.

And again there was nothing wrong with Fuku, Even with hindsight the
engineering decisions were not wrong.

If someone has said 'proof it against a 15 meter tsunami' they answer
would have been 'what for? that's going to kill 20,000 people or more.,
And we will lose four reactors. And there will be no loss of life due to
that, so it's a waste of time and money'. Fuku reactors were old BWRs of
1970s vintage and even so, they stood up really well.

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