due to design, or operations flaws and one because of a natural disaster.
A natural disaster in addition to design and operations flaws, assuming you mean Fukushima.
Building anything critical below sea level in what is possibly the most known seismically active region on the entire planet [Ring of Fire] where earthquakes, tsunamis, and Godzilla happen regularly enough you know they will happen again is beyond incompetent. It's flat out suicidal.
Natural bodies of water are great sources of coolant as you don't have to transport to site as it's right there.
The stupidity/design and operations flaws were building the sea walls too low despite said feature being criticised and suggested for improvement. It never was.
The natural disaster was the fourth strongest earthquake ever recorded since records began in 1990.
To give an idea of the scale of such an earthquake:
it moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east
shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in)
increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day
generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite
So to summerise: It moved most of Japan closer to the US. The redistribution of mass resulted in an increase of how fast the planet spins. And was detected in space through sheer force of vibrating through vacuum.
So the 14 metre waves from the tsunami that hit the inferior designs of the power plant just fucked the place.
Per megawatt hour of power produced, nuclear has killed fewer people than wind just from the small number of people dying in manufacturing and mining accidents for wind turbines, because of the sheer amount of power nuclear provides.
That's one of the reason I hate the concept of battery farms that the greenists insist must go with wind and solar to be fully successful. So, coal mining = bad, but lithium, nickel, lead, or whatever they are mining up to go sit out in a field in the huge quantities necessary for utility grade service is totally ok? Are we not going to run out of these metals, they aren't "renewable".
Technically speaking, the biggest nuclear disasters we've seen were due to design, or operations flaws and one because of a natural disaster.
But, if you want to convince people, ask them the last time they've heard of one of our many nuclear powered US Navy ships blowing up.
A natural disaster in addition to design and operations flaws, assuming you mean Fukushima.
Building anything critical below sea level in what is possibly the most known seismically active region on the entire planet [Ring of Fire] where earthquakes, tsunamis,
and Godzillahappen regularly enough you know they will happen again is beyond incompetent. It's flat out suicidal.So what was the reason for them building it near there?
Did they literally run out of fucking land or something?
Natural bodies of water are great sources of coolant as you don't have to transport to site as it's right there.
The stupidity/design and operations flaws were building the sea walls too low despite said feature being criticised and suggested for improvement. It never was.
The natural disaster was the fourth strongest earthquake ever recorded since records began in 1990.
To give an idea of the scale of such an earthquake:
So to summerise: It moved most of Japan closer to the US. The redistribution of mass resulted in an increase of how fast the planet spins. And was detected in space through sheer force of vibrating through vacuum.
So the 14 metre waves from the tsunami that hit the inferior designs of the power plant just fucked the place.
In fairness, that could have been an issue in Japan. It's quite small and dense.
And has lots of steep mountains.
And combined they still killed less than your average damn failure.
Per megawatt hour of power produced, nuclear has killed fewer people than wind just from the small number of people dying in manufacturing and mining accidents for wind turbines, because of the sheer amount of power nuclear provides.
That's one of the reason I hate the concept of battery farms that the greenists insist must go with wind and solar to be fully successful. So, coal mining = bad, but lithium, nickel, lead, or whatever they are mining up to go sit out in a field in the huge quantities necessary for utility grade service is totally ok? Are we not going to run out of these metals, they aren't "renewable".