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In reply to the discussion: A possible return to atomic power??? WTH??? 🤬 🤬 🤬 [View all]ProfessorGAC
(75,674 posts)Chernobyl was a stupidity caused accident on a reactor design below the standards EVER used in the US.
Fukushima was never a reactor problem, but they built the plant, stupidly, on a fault line.
There has been no major event based upon inadequate reactor design (even Chernobyl would have been ok had they not run that ridiculous experiment).
And, there has not been a true meltdown except for the earliest stages of Chernobyl.
Add to that design & understanding has increased a hundredfold since those early designs, and computing power for redundant emergency action is a millionfold what it was in those early designs.
To dismiss this option based upon the potential for a disaster while ignoring the pending disaster from doing nothing is short sighted.