• CoriolisSTORM88@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        For those of you who were confused by Maya, like me, it is the Mayak or Kyshtyn accident.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

        That being said, I don’t think the nuclear industry of today should be hamstrung by Soviet incompetence and corruption from the 1950s. I mean these guys at this location were running open loop cooling circuits into the lake and river. We know better than this nowadays.

    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      And has since been learned from. That reactor design is no longer used, specifically because of that. It would take more than just negligence to get a modern reactor to fail. Spreading fear of nuclear benefits no one and harms everyone.

    • Rooskie91@discuss.online
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, Fukushima was almost as bad as climate change! Good thing we phased out nuclear to focus on fossil fuels!

      • felykiosa@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Never said that I m actually pro nuclear but I had to say that Fukushima wasn’t the worst nuclear accident