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[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s why nuclear facilities security is so stringent and fail safes are everywhere

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Every country using nuclear power has incidents with covered-up leaks or near-core-melt incidents in reactors, if you dig a bit deeper. I'm swiss and know of multiple of them* in Swiss, France and Germany. Imagine how it looks in a absolutistic 3rd-world country.
Btw, the one in Ucraine was forcefully taken over by Russia (with international diplomatic pressure caused only by them firing on the outer walls) and power cut.

About fail safes; historic statistic mean is every 25 years somewhere all of them not working and causing large swaths of land being uninhabitable for centuries. Human error always gets underestimated there.

* like, secretly using low-grade steel for the reactor walls to cut cost, fissures not being reported, or the one, where Leibstadt had to be cooled by firefighters (not being told anything (i know one of them)) due to cooling canal congestion after heavy rain.

Edit: Or were you sarcastic and i failed to notice?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, all the dirty bombs that are set off each year show how unsafe nuclear power really is!

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Hust*Iran. There's a international black market for fissile material.