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To: oldplayer; BenLurkin
Additionally, the St. Vrain core was contained in a vessel, whereas the Chernobyl nuclear pile was just that - a pile of graphite and radioactive rods in the middle of a hanger-like building.

People don't understand what's going on with nuclear power.

The Greenies think they killed off nuclear with scare movies like The China Syndrome and the closely associated Three Mile Island incident.

Most people don't realize that the Generation I reactors [Chernobyl in its hanger building] and most if not all of the Generation II reactors [Fukushima Daiichi is one, commissioned in 1971] were designed BEFORE computers were in common use for plant design.

There has apparently never been a Generation III reactor accident, and the industry is working on Generation IV, which is safer yet.

46 posted on 05/20/2019 7:46:14 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kiryandil

Where’s my Gen Mr. Fusion?


51 posted on 05/20/2019 7:57:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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