Pretty much all modern plants are designed to safely shut down without human intervention. And as shitty as a new potential Chernobyl is, it's a regional disaster.
Then it becomes a slightly larger regional disaster, which fucking sucks for anyone living on the Mississippi but doesn't really matter in the slightest to someone living in New York, or Greece, or Korea. And again, the idea of "what happens if our nuclear power plant doesn't have qualified personnel around 24/7?" is not something that has slipped the minds of the people in charge of those plants which is why they're designed with passive safeguards like control rods defaulting to being inserted into the cores, so it's an unlikely scenario to begin with.
That's good then, cause that's one less thing to worry about. I assume older plants are retrofitted? Like the Bruce plant in ontario isn't "modern" in the sense that it was built any time in the recent past. Brb gotta update my nuclear power plant knowledge apparently lol
Pretty much all modern plants are designed to safely shut down without human intervention. And as shitty as a new potential Chernobyl is, it's a regional disaster.
Regional disaster? What if the wastewater gets into a major waterway like the Mississip?
Then it becomes a slightly larger regional disaster, which fucking sucks for anyone living on the Mississippi but doesn't really matter in the slightest to someone living in New York, or Greece, or Korea. And again, the idea of "what happens if our nuclear power plant doesn't have qualified personnel around 24/7?" is not something that has slipped the minds of the people in charge of those plants which is why they're designed with passive safeguards like control rods defaulting to being inserted into the cores, so it's an unlikely scenario to begin with.
That's good then, cause that's one less thing to worry about. I assume older plants are retrofitted? Like the Bruce plant in ontario isn't "modern" in the sense that it was built any time in the recent past. Brb gotta update my nuclear power plant knowledge apparently lol
Yeah unlike nuclear war, power plants are not an end of civilization/life even if everything goes wrong with them.