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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by lesuorac on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:38PM (#41374461)
If it's not interesting from an engineering perspective then why did the nuclear community write a post-accident report [1] and then update it 7 years later [2]?

Perhaps _now_ it's less interesting as the faulty design has been studied at least twice with computer simulations (and a lot more skepticism on the initial Russian presentation which blamed the operators).

[1]:https://www.iaea.org/publications/3598/summary-report-on-the...

[2]: https://www.iaea.org/publications/3786/the-chernobyl-acciden...

Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by littlestymaar on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:02AM (#41376755)
Because nuclear is not just about engineering?

TMI also wasn't mainly an engineering problem: it was the way the incident reaction guidelines where written and how crisis group was set up that was the largest cause, and as such there has been little engineering changes following TMI but a lot of organizational changes.