re: #115 Hecuba’s daughter

The question is: are our plants so much better designed and our engineers so much better trained and knowledgeable than those in Russia that a similar disaster could not occur here? I knew an employee of the Zion plant who was an alcoholic (he was the brother of a friend of mine); it took years before they finally fired him. He may not have been in a key position — but he was there.

I read up on this during/after Chernobyl… but that was a long time ago and I’ve forgotten all but the outline. The design of the Chernobyl plant was different from ours (except, I believe, one military reactor — which may not still be online), and because of that the Chernobyl reactor was subject to hazards that ours were/are not.

Of course, our reactors have hazards of their own (consider Three Mile Island), but they’re not considered to be as risky.