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Re:America aims for nuclear-power renaissance by XorNot on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:30AM (#36476413)
The worst nuclear disaster in history (Chernobyl) a disaster which took a specific reactor class, driven into a specifically unstable configuration, and built without specific safeguards, didn't make an area the size of Denmark uninhabitable in Ukraine.
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Re:America aims for nuclear-power renaissance by pfdietz on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:46AM (#36479027)
Yes, any specific accident has specific circumstances. The next nuclear accident will too.

Powering the world with nuclear will require breeder reactors. A Chernobyl-like prompt criticality accident in a fast reactor could be an actual honest-to-god nuclear explosion, not a piddly pathetic steam explosion like at Chernobyl.

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