And to start doing so, you develop passively-safe technologies (walk away), wher...

The_rationalist · on Aug 17, 2019

Chernobyl couldn't happen on today plants anyway. It was a succession of ridiculous human errors, where e.g while stress testing the reactor, they disabled the automatic recovery system. Power plants are now using computers and they wouldn't allow such human stupidity.

bassman9000 · on Aug 17, 2019

Thus the passive/walk away.

Three Mile Island was a much better Western design, and still shit happened, although with a fraction of the consequences. Fukishima, same.

I don't want a computer to be the failsafe. Computers fail. I want safe systems by design. Like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAI1zVH5ir8

Gibbon1 · on Aug 17, 2019

At TMI the core suffered a partial meltdown. Downriver is Chesapeake Bay.

Lucky doesn't begin to cover what happened at TMI.

chess_buster · on Aug 17, 2019

Čerenkov-Blue Screen of Death then.