Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
by feral on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:07PM
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Thanks for your detailed response.
I hope you're right about the inherent safety of modern reactors, even in the face of malevolence. I don't know enough to contradict you.
In 1605 Guy Fawkes put enough gunpowder under the UK parliament to go through 7-foot concrete walls.
But if it's impossible to blow up a containment vessel, that's fantastic.
All I'd say is that I stand by the point that history to date is only weak evidence for future safety, and that as a general point, it's very hard to build something that survives dedicated adversaries.
I hope you're right about the inherent safety of modern reactors, even in the face of malevolence. I don't know enough to contradict you.
In 1605 Guy Fawkes put enough gunpowder under the UK parliament to go through 7-foot concrete walls.
But if it's impossible to blow up a containment vessel, that's fantastic.
All I'd say is that I stand by the point that history to date is only weak evidence for future safety, and that as a general point, it's very hard to build something that survives dedicated adversaries.