Project Impossible looks at the great movable arch used to contain Chernobyl
Largest Movable Building In The World, Chernobyl Arch On Project Impossible
Chernobyl was the foreseeable consequence of the Soviet’s philosophy of “Better is the enemy of good enough.” And Fukushima was only possible because of 20 years of what in any modern western industrial nation would have been termed “criminal neglect.”
And the chart is wrong.
The US Navy alone operates +/- 200 nuclear reactors. All of them are on floating platforms. Some of them sink (and come back up) on command. And from hundreds to thousands of people live on these floating platforms, less than a quarter of a mile from the reactor itself.
The US Navy has been operating nuclear reactors for 66 years. In that time they have had exactly one minor mishap involving a nuclear propulsion reactor that provoked some precautionary drills but produced zero radiation injuries. That was in 1973 and we’re several generations of reactor more advanced and safer now.
Through 65 of those 66 years (to the end of CY 2020), 47,144 Americans were killed in coal mining accidents.* That’s 47,144 more Americans than were killed (or even seriously injured) by all incidents involving US-operated reactors combined.
*According to the US Department of Labor
https://arlweb.msha.gov/stats/centurystats/coalstats.asp
Project Impossible looks at the great movable arch used to contain Chernobyl
Largest Movable Building In The World, Chernobyl Arch On Project Impossible