“Although the technology exists to contain a burning core, Rosenergoatom won’t say if the plant–which was designed a decade ago–will include the most modern safety measures.”
Cores don’t burn.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Chernobyl, International, Physics, Safety, Three Mile Island
Posted on October 27, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |
The obvious anti-nuclear slant in this article is the title: “A floating Chernobyl?”, when the focus could be on providing easily-deployed power to remote parts of Russia. Whether cores burn (which Chernobyl certainly did) or not is less important.
However it seems to be enough for antinuclear groups to express a concern, resolvable or not, to stop such projects in the West. We shall see whether Russia is as easily swayed.
And that title essentially shows is that the writers and editors of one of the biggest science magazines in the United States don’t know the difference between a VVER and an RBMK. I’d have been very surprised if they did.
Ah, such low expectations…