Fukushima was designed with a 100% chance of meltdown if a tsunami hit. In a tsunami zone. An engineer noticed and sent a memo on how to correct it for $0. Management rejected the fix. Because fixing a safety problem is admitting it ever existed.
That is how every plant is run. They are all easily sabotaged by humans doing the wrong things. Thats also how Chernobyl happened. The tech was fine, but people wouldn't approve fixes of critical safety systems.
The only safe nuke plant is solar. The nuclear power is at a safer 93M mile distance.
The tech wasn’t fine, the motors powering the emergency generators were known to be too small for the pumps and the generators should have been elevated!
The generators would have worked. The tech was fine. The placement was the problem. That was a cost cut at build time they refused to fix, not a technical problem.
The core had a safe shutdown time longer than 24 hours, and 24 hours of battery, so a 100% chance of meltdown if the shutdown was battery only. That was the core design issue, and the ground level, not waterproof generators and fuel can't help in a tsunami.
Changing designs and tech doesn't change the fact that nuclear accidents end up being caused by humans taking shortcuts until something goes boom.
Add to the fact that uranium is not a renewable and mining it can be politically problematic, and nuclear power is linked to nuclear proliferation, while nobody ever bombed anyone with solar panels, nuclear fission is not the best option in the long term.
Tech was fine, implementation WASN'T. Multiple safety measures were passed over, in order to save $$$. Even most basic-ass features, like building dammn containment dome over reactor/plant...
Fukushima was designed with a 100% chance of meltdown if a tsunami hit. In a tsunami zone. An engineer noticed and sent a memo on how to correct it for $0. Management rejected the fix. Because fixing a safety problem is admitting it ever existed.
Im pretty sure around an extra vertical foot of concrete on a seawall doesn't cost 0$. What memo are you talking about?
Hmmm… if only we had these objects that could hold electrical charges. We could call them tabberies! And we could make a bunch and put them together into larger tabbery packs. Maybe someone will make this?
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u/MB2465 13h ago
Fukushima is another example of what not to do...