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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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