Skull Pilot
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Yet, no body died in those accidents, Fukashima is an old plant, very old. We operate the same plants in the USA with zero problems. Three Mile Island did not hurt one person, not one. At TMI it was an operator error, they did not believe what the instruments told them. Well now we have self-overriding systems that prevent that from happening again. We still have a plant exactly like Three Mile Island operating, so no problem there.Modern nuclear power is perfect at only twice the price and still the possibility of catastrophic failure. Fukashima was not supposed to happen, Three Mile Island was not supposed to happen, and there have been others like DB that should have been caught long before they were a danger. How many nukes with 2 to 5 times as many spent rods in them as designed for along the New Madrid fault? How many would go underwater if the dams on the Missouri and Mississippi failed, as almost happened in 2011?
How many would go underwater? Old Crock, Water is a natural Neutron Absorber, we would prefer them to be underwater if there is an accident. Fukashima failed because they lost the power to keep water pumping in. All they had to do was have the back-up diesel generator on high ground and there would not of been a failure.
We shut our plants down on the rivers in the spring, if the water crests above a certain level, so to answer your question, our plants are safe from flooding.
We have to mothball the old light water reactors
It's time to move nuclear power forward
We already have proven designs that not only do not need huge amounts of water for cooling but are also self limiting
These new reactors can be installed virtually anywhere