Comment Re:Problem isn't that it's clean or dirty (Score 1) 105
can't be explained by a combination of old technology, incompetence that only Soviets could attain, and/or rare "black swan" events,
There is no disaster that can't be explained. The problem isn't explaining them, its anticipating all the possible ways they can happen. And every disaster is a "black swan" if it wasn't anticipated.
The idea that American's aren't capable of the same incompetence as the Soviet engineers has been amply proved untrue on numerous occasions. But its a time tested industry propaganda talking point that uses emotional appeals to patriotism to silence criticism.The problem with Chernobyl was it was designed by human engineers who not only didn't but couldn't anticipate an unlikely series of events and didn't accurately evaluate the risks.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima are all second generation nuclear power plants. There's plenty of 3rd generation nuclear power plants
Categories that are almost totally meaningless. Of course people have learned from experience. But there is no magic to "category three", its just a talking point for separating new plants from the failures of the old.There are a lot more similarities between those plants than there are differences. Not one of them has solved the problem of securely storing the extremely lethal waste they produce.