You’ve nailed it. No one seems to remember that great worldwide push to build nuclear power plants beginning in the late 50’s and ending in catastrophic failure in the 1970’s. I live in Washington State and remember well the lies, the manipulation, the wasted taxpayer money, and the utter failure of this “Green Energy” debacle. In case you don’t remember, here’s a link to refresh memories: http://https://www.historylink.org/file/5482. Research the WPPSS insanity - the system’s acronym, pronounced “whoops,” came to represent how not to run a public works project. Then, let’s talk about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima nuclear disasters. What mentally competent person should ever again trust their land, their health, or their financial solvenyt to the incompetence of government and grifting, corrupt utility companies?
There is a problem with the WPPS link text. It should be:
https://www.historylink.org/file/5482
I will eventually learn how to post with an active link. In the meantime, I tested the link text above, and it works. Great article.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima were run by incompetent people.
The guys at Chernobyl were experimenting. What does this button do Igor?
https://www.britannica.com/event/Chernobyl-disaster
Three Mile Island - it is also built in the middle of a river, no worry about floods...
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-facts-know-about-three-mile-island
Fukushima was the dumbest of all. They built it in a known area for tsunamis.
The wave heights in the past were recorded on the mountainside. They were warned before building it. They only built a small sea wall. The power lines were destroyed during the earthquake. They installed backup generators below the wave height of the past tsunamis. They had 50hz backup generators while the other half of Japan had 60hz so no replacements could be installed quickly. Power out so the reactors core melted.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/06/why-fukushima-was-preventable-pub-47361
FTA: The seawater pumps and their motors, which were responsible for transferring heat extracted from the reactor cores to the ocean (the so-called “ultimate heat sink”) and also for cooling most of the emergency diesel generators, were built at a lower elevation than the reactor buildings. They were flooded and completely destroyed. Thus, even if electricity had been available to drive the emergency cooling systems, there would have been no way of dissipating the heat.