Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Nuclear power works in theory. In practise, if you make even the tiniest
> mistake, just once, everything is ruined forever. (Or at least, for
> several centuries.) And there's nothing you can do to fix it.

That's not really true. Chernobyl was caused by a very long chain of mistakes,
all committed with a reactor design which was already itself a long chain of
mistakes. It should be noted that most other countries have never built a
reactor that could fail as catastrophically as this, even through wilful
sabotage.

TMI was also long chain of mistakes, which resulted in only the reactor being
ruined, and they did fix it.

I suppose you could say that Fukushima was really only one very big mistake,
i.e. how big a tsunami was ever likely to be. However, they show every sign of
being able to fix it eventually.

I long ago ceased to get any information on the nuclear industry from the
mainstream media. None of them understand it, and they all profit from making it
look bad.

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