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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter
Hey, if you say so friend.
Messing with atomic physics like this is dangerous. There's no need to increase the number of reactors from what we already have. Move to sustainable energy, maintain the current number of nuclear reactors, invest in nuclear fusion energy-generating methods.
That's obvious. People have been saying this for decades now. The problem is that it's not that simple. Again, nuclear physics is a very dangerous and complicated field- not even touching upon research that has to be done into the elements to be used for fuel, the particle studies, etc.
There were actually quite a few cancer deaths later on, not considering the environmental effects of 13 million curies of radioactive gases being leaked into the atmosphere and radioisotopes.
Actually Chernobyl's reactor melted down because the operators failed to carry through with an inexcusable number of rules and regulations in place to prevent exactly this kind of disaster from occurring and because the ECCS was shut off (the coolant system reactors use)- which led to an increase in steam formation and therefore temperature, slowing down the effectiveness of the control rods. With that said, exactly such a disaster is a possibility, of a higher quantity with the more reactors you construct, not only with human error being a possibility but also mechanical failure in the reactor itself. Chernobyl alone caused over 4,000 deaths in a remote area of Russia; imagine how many would have died if it had been in an urban area- nevermind Russia but what it would be like in the United States. And the environmental effects are still being felt today.
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Dude, that is straight up green propaganda. Do you even know what kind of explosion took place at chernobyl?? Promise you it wasnt nuclear.
Second, the reactor at chernobyl... do you have any idea what kind of containment vessel it was sitting in? Think about a giant thick metal cooking vessel. sitting inside of what was practically a warehouse.
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This image here is what we use today. i highly doubt any gas or steam explosion is going to rip through all of this.
Third, a nuclear explosion inside of a nuclear reactor is IMPOSSIBLE. The physics are N O T there. In the unfortunate worst case scenario event, the reactor goes out of control. The control rods dont come down... The hot rock gets hotter, Nuetrons are flying around out of control, and guess what... the rock melts. it turns into a pile of slag sitting at the bottom of the containment vessel. Not very useful is it? That is THE END of the story, no radiation leakage.