“The worst result thus far of these cost cutting practices occurred at BE’s Hunterston B nuclear station in Scotland. A loss of power accident there threatened to turn into a Chernobyl-scale disaster, due in great part to understaffing.”
A power outage is not going to turn into Chernobyl, not because of staffing, but because of physics. Hunterston B is not Chernobyl, doesn’t work like Chernobyl, and can’t experience a Chernobyl-scale accident.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Chernobyl, Economics, Nuclear Exceptionalism, Safety
Posted on May 27, 2007 by Stewart Peterson |
