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Originally Posted by RealJames
Well clearly there are only two smart solutions, entirely change to natural energy sources asap, or improve nuclear power to a point of safety that nothing short of intentional sabotage could cause it to go wrong.
The best solution in the mean time is to do both while somewhat phasing out nuclear power dependency...
That's my opinion.
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Here is a my translation of interview of russian specialist of nuclear energy. He describes an emergency situation that occured at nuclear power plant located in Spitak-town of Armenia in 1988.
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On December 7, 1988 an enormous earthquake destroyed Spitak-town (nowadays in Republic of Armenia) and caused huge human losses. Armenian NPP, located near an epicenter of earthquake, suffered a short-out of electric power and reactor began to overheat. Personnel of NPP quickly escaped the station.
All Soviet nuclear-power plants were state-owned.
In a very short period of time Soviet Ministry of Nuclear Energy was fully informed of the critical situation and worked upon solutions of urgent tasks.
They delivered by air crews of technicians and engineers from other Soviet nuclear power stations. Further, they enforced a huge amount of firefighting cars, wheeled tanks filled by fresh water, to overheating reactor.
Working fast in a very hard conditions, engineers and technicians restored electrical power to damaged reactor and run an emergency cooling system of reactor core. Later the reactor was carefully shut down and scrappped. No hydrogen explosions and radioactive steam / water into environment were allowed.
Unfortunately, Fukushima nuclear facility was owned by a private company. Seems, their managers had neither skills nor desire to colllect and study a positive foreign experience regarding to urgent operations in emergency conditions at damaged nuclear reactors.....
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The point is : no need to blame nuclear energy for rude human mistakes or plain irresponsibility......