Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030

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23. Hillarious that you find such errors to be "fun"

TEPCO used to use MOX in 4 and, I believe, that 2 and 3 were still using.

Entirely untrue. Unit 3 was the only MOX unit and it had just received it's first load (1/3 of a core) in the previous refeuling outage. Thus there isn't even any spent MOX in the spent fuel pool (though there would be a handful of unused assemblies).

And MOX is hardly an "unpopular fuel"... it's used in lots of reactors... and planned for many more. The fake hype about MOX at Fukushima was just so that people could fit the word "plutonium" into their articles (nonsense of course... since all spent fuel has plutonium in it)

Oh, if the Hoover Dam fails then several thousand people will die or be harmed at the time but rescue efforts will be able to start immediately and within a year people will be moving back. The effect will not last for years and decades with an ongoing death toll and damage to the world at large.

You're not seriously trying to compare an imagined failure of Hoover Dam to Fukushima and pretend that the Dam would be less damaging... are you?

It wouldn't be "several thousand"... it would be tens of thousands. Lake Mohave and the Davis dam would fail as well... then Lake Havasu and the Parker dam would go. A few little towns (like... say... Las Vegas) would have no water supply and 3GWs of their power generation would be destroyed. No water... no power... no irrigation for crops - in the middle of a desert. That's a heck of a lot more "uninhabbitable" than a radiation level that might cause a few hundred deaths from cancer if you stayed instead of evacuated.

If you think that the population of the area would return a year later... you're nuts.

But we weren't talking about how much damage it would do if it failed... we were talking about the ability to design substantial steel and concrete structures to last for many decades. It's most certainly possible to design reactors that could (with appropriate maintenance) last a century.