The reactor at TMI didn’t partially meltdown. The core ended up as rubble. The vessel itself held.
Time for some serious investment in fusion research. Fusion is a lot safer. And wind and solar are only token efforts with very questionable results.
Besides, if we are all going to be driving around in electric cars, then we need a massively upgrade to our power grid and production plants.
Good article.
Thanks for posting that!
I am so screwed.
“..: the 1986 explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl plant in the Ukraine,..”
I stopped reading right there. That statement is false: the Chernobyl reactor never “exploded”. It was steam lines that exploded and destroyed the reactor vessel.
My father was a nuclear engineer and he had a copy of the government (USA) report which I read. Those men who ordered the test of the steam system, operating it beyond its safety standards, were executed by the Russian government.
By the way, thank you for posting this article. There are “intervenors” who, no matter how silly they appear in the end, are trying to disrupt and/or stop energy production in the USA. They get articles out to the public, which doesn’t know anything about nuclear power, and basically lie about it.
It doesn’t matter whether the subject is about nuclear plants or not. They pursue a vast array of other energy issues: LNG shipments, petroleum pipelines, nuclear development, coal production and coal power plants - they are basically communists, pretending to be environmentalists who hate America and will go to any lengths except putting themselves in harm’s way, to destroy this nation.
Obviously this idiot never held a fishing pole with a greater then 50 lb tuna on the line.
The article badly mischaracterizes the Three-Mile Island accident, treating it as steam generator tube rupture, when it was actually a small-break LOCA, in effect.