Chernobyl is an example of what happens when stupidity is compounded by more and more stupidity. A second rate reactor design, being used in an experiment that involved deliberately pushing it into operating conditions known to be dangerously unstable, and the safeties disabled when they got in the way. Also implicated is Soviet society where getting things done tended to involve bending and breaking rules.Unfortunately the anti-nuclear lobby (in UK at least) is not just greens but many other people who see Chernobyl in every new reactor.
Statistics: Posted by hanelyp — Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:33 am