woodguru

Nothing political here, just some of the science about what happened when the disaster unfolded and how it was temporarily contained. The interesting thing is that the active life of the materials involved is 20,000 years, and the temporary stop gap was to give 100 years to figure out what to do.

100 years...just long enough to kick it down the road to where it's someone else's problem.

It's KOS, but written by someone who knows what he is talking about...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/21/2053530/-Well-this-isn-t-good-Chernobyl-reactor-number-4-decides-to-remind-us-it-s-still-alive?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Saw this in some other article a while back. Fukushima, at least, is being cleansed by the Pacific, eh?

woodguru

You have probably caught things on the overall contribution each nuclear disaster adds to the overall radiation levels in our atmosphere too, Fukishima was bad, but Chernobyl was the granddaddy.

What struck me about this article was two things...that Russia had built a very technically dangerous type of reactor, and the operators really did some pretty stupid things stabilizing the power output that seemed to indicate they had no real expert who truly understood the process and materials that could have said no, that is a really bad idea, here is how this has to be done.

Shutting down and ramping up is tricky and long procedures that as they found out cannot be shortcut.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Thorium reactors, maybe, could be a solution.

Actually, I believe before too long they'll discover the secret to fusion. Give them 40 or 50 years.