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Originally Posted by CjC
Surely Nuclear Rods for powerstations are not likely to be enriched enough to produce the same effect as a bomb?
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Not even close. In fact, it wouldn't matter anyway as the only thing that's really vulnerable is the low-level waste storage.
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Originally Posted by Veedeejem!
Chernobyl melted down caus the night operators (unexperienced ones) ran a shedualed test that went completly wrong. If the test had been run by the daytime operators it's likely that the disaster would have never happened.
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That's not really true - none of the top people had any experience in the nuclear sector (indeed, the chief engineer had come from conventional, rather than nuclear, power plants), and the "scheduled test" was something that had been shipped around every power plant in Russia until these guys agreed to it.
The basic idea was to see how well the power station would function without outside power, relying on the backup diesel engines.
They physically locked out most of the emergency controls for the reaction.
The reactor, and the building it was in, was also hideously designed.
The accident was made worse by the ability of the people in charge to deny that there actually was anything wrong.
You could go on and on about Chernobyl - it's such a comedy of errors that says much more about the state of the USSR than nuclear power.
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Originally Posted by Kurashima
I think youre right, since I dont have enough data on Three Mile Island to say it melted down as such, merely that there was a "Severe Incident".
Anyone else confirm more details?
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The Three Mile Island incident was a meltdown, just not as severe as Chernobyl. Not as complete, either.