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Re:Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the... by cbmuser on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:10PM (#26185586)
> Not sure about the other ones, but the ones in (East) Germany were decomissioned presto after reunification

Which was completely unjustified. I visited that plant and the engineers there confirmed me that the VVER-440/213 is safer than all the BWR designs in West-Germany.

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Re:Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the... by corty on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:50AM (#26190661)
It is a law of engineering that every engineer will claim his code is the most efficient, his car the best and hist nuclear power plant the safest.

WWER-440 has no closed safety vessel, poor emergency cooling and no redundancy to speak of. It is a PWR design that is maybe on par with a poor western BWR. Also, all the reactors in West Germany were continually retrofitted, especially after the lessons learned due to Czernobyl. That wasn't feasible for a Sowjet design during the breakup of the Sowjet Union (while a lot was built in the GDR, there was also a lot that would have been imported).

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