Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
by philwelch on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:57AM
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The Chernobyl power plant did not have a containment building around the reactors until after the meltdown. Every Western nuclear power plant has a containment building around the reactors. That's the single biggest factor.
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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
by ncmncm on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:27PM
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TMI and Fukushima had containment, for all the good it did.
Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
by Vecr on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:54PM
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It did a lot of good? TMI slagged the core but the containment held, and Fukushima's cores (the ones that melted, obviously) was still mostly covered, the hydrogen explosion was the major problem.
Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
by ncmncm on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:13PM
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TMI vented a very large amount of radioactive krypton. (Given its density, it would better be described as dumped to the river, where it spread out along the banks downstream, gassing riverfront neighborhoods.)
Fukushima's containment exploded in hydrogen detonations, and vented a great deal of radioisotopes. They are today flushing tritium to the ocean, which seems wasteful; we will want the 3He that decays to.