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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
« on: December 08, 2017, 07:15:10 PM »Chernobyl was because they were doing pretty much everything wrong, ignoring safeties, while possibly drunk.
Fukushima was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami.
Nuclear reactors are very carefully designed not to explode. Nuclear bombs have to be carefully designed specifically to explode, radioactive materials aren't explosive by themselves.
trust me i know, i soaked up chernobyl and fukushima info and documentaries and articles like a sponge for years
you have to understand the corporate corruption inside the US nuclear plants
there are extremely tight regulations, but the companies that own the plants stretch them to their breaking point, cutting corners wherever they can without triggering the NRC
the problem with fukushima was not an earthquake and tsunami as all the other plants survived it
the problem was the companies that owned it ignoring MULTIPLE warnings to raise the sea-wall because it would cost them too much money
the plants were completely safe and under control after the earthquake until the tsunami hit