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What Separates Chernobyl from Three Mile Island and Fukushima
2019-06-08
[NATIONALREVIEW] Europe: "Chernobyl's a nuclear disaster!"
Soviet Union: "Nothing happened!"
Europe: "Sweden's glowing!"
Soviet Union: "Minor accident. Everything's under control."
Europe: "A 700 foot reindeer just stomped Helsinki!"
Soviet Union: "Chernobyl under control. Population evacuated. Nothing to worry about."
Europe: "Minsk has been overun by a plague of blood-squirting three eyed toads!"
Soviet Union: "Chernobyl part of classified military training area. No spies allowed!"
Posted by:Fred

#10  More people died in an Oldsmobile driven by Ted Kennedy than died at Three Mile Island.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-06-08 23:11  

#9  Worthwhile read on the subject...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-06-08 11:51  

#8  Fermi 1 prototype breeder reactor failed and shut down for several years. Can't help but think that Fermi 1 and Three-Mile Island added to the hysteria that scuttled the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. This all happened before Chernobyl. Three-Mile Island was controlled whereas Chernobyl was a runaway reactor. Fukushima was a different story with a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-06-08 11:22  

#7  A flammable graphite reactor to start.
Posted by: Woodrow Omeans5852   2019-06-08 11:22  

#6  One difference is Chernobyl had a Sears garden shed for a containment building.
Posted by: Davemac25   2019-06-08 10:19  

#5  Experts warn Glasgow and Edinburgh could be contaminated with radiation if EDF decide to reopen two nuclear reactors with 400 cracks in the core walls
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-08 09:31  

#4  Into the Apocalypse: Ghostly ruins, nature running rampant, the ominous crackle of a Geiger counter and a handful of defiant locals who've crept back - a haunting dispatch from Chernobyl's ground zero
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-08 08:21  

#3  Skidmark, that almost described my time in Uncle Rickover's Nuclear Navy. Except for the drills part.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-06-08 08:11  

#2  Aging infrastructure
Analog controls requiring manual monitoring
Jaded inadequately trained workforce
Insufficient management engagement
Unpracticed safety and disaster plans

Huh, they're all the same.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-08 07:33  

#1  Windscale in the UK was also handled with a large dose of secrecy, but seems the management were a lot better than at Chernobyl
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-06-08 03:55  

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