Negr, explain Chernobyl and refute Nuke asteroid defense.

XabbaRus · 01-15-06, 07:38 PM

OK this is bugging me, use language properly.

"Structural faults" would refer to either A)Bad construction techniques and build quality. B)Flaws in the processes used to run whatever system.

You can't pick and choose.

Chernobyl, they cocked up. Ran an experiment that shouldn't have been run, the engineers in the reactor shouldn't have run it and I think they knew that.

What pisses me off about it all is that after Chernobyl western media lumped all the other reactors of that design together and call them unsafe. E.G. in Estonia I think there is a nuclear reactor that provides 80% of the contry's power. The EU wants it shut down (part of membership agreement) and the BBC went to pains to stress it was a Chernobyl type reactor.

Although I think Russia can still be a bit paranoid and this is from someone who has lived there and who is married to a Russian I do think the western media and the west in general like to find ways to make Russia look like the baddy. I think it is psychological inertia from the cold-war.
Sure after Chernobyl things were added to dumb ****s couldn't disable safety systems. Thing is the design wasn't flawed really.

01-15-06, 07:38 PM	#16
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	OK this is bugging me, use language properly. "Structural faults" would refer to either A)Bad construction techniques and build quality. B)Flaws in the processes used to run whatever system. You can't pick and choose. Chernobyl, they cocked up. Ran an experiment that shouldn't have been run, the engineers in the reactor shouldn't have run it and I think they knew that. What pisses me off about it all is that after Chernobyl western media lumped all the other reactors of that design together and call them unsafe. E.G. in Estonia I think there is a nuclear reactor that provides 80% of the contry's power. The EU wants it shut down (part of membership agreement) and the BBC went to pains to stress it was a Chernobyl type reactor. Although I think Russia can still be a bit paranoid and this is from someone who has lived there and who is married to a Russian I do think the western media and the west in general like to find ways to make Russia look like the baddy. I think it is psychological inertia from the cold-war. Sure after Chernobyl things were added to dumb ****s couldn't disable safety systems. Thing is the design wasn't flawed really. __________________