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Re:China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power? by The_rationalist on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:25PM (#20725441)
Chernobyl couldn't happen on today plants anyway. It was a succession of ridiculous human errors, where e.g while stress testing the reactor, they disabled the automatic recovery system. Power plants are now using computers and they wouldn't allow such human stupidity.
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Re:China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power? by bassman9000 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:52PM (#20725613)
Thus the passive/walk away.

Three Mile Island was a much better Western design, and still shit happened, although with a fraction of the consequences. Fukishima, same.

I don't want a computer to be the failsafe. Computers fail. I want safe systems by design. Like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAI1zVH5ir8

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Re:China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power? by Gibbon1 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @03:48PM (#20725922)
At TMI the core suffered a partial meltdown. Downriver is Chesapeake Bay.

Lucky doesn't begin to cover what happened at TMI.

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Re:China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power? by chess_buster on Saturday August 17, 2019 @03:26PM (#20725802)
Čerenkov-Blue Screen of Death then.
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