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varjag on March 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactor...

Superficial understanding of subject is worse than no understanding at all. People who blew up Chernobyl knew what Sievert is, and in fact possessed nuclear engineering degrees.

Natsu on March 14, 2011 [–]

We've learned a lot since then. Reactors have proper containment vessels and negative (instead of positive) void coefficients these days.

And heck, as bad as Chernobyl was, they managed to operate the rest of the reactors for years after the accident.

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