I admit I don't know anything about late Ukrainian SSR, how things and circumstances were there at the end of its time. Compared to Fukushima it's nothing, that's right. Chernobyl only saw one reactor of four blowing up; Fukushima saw five of six (!). Additionally, there's no doubt to it that a tsunami wave devastated the area otherwise also.
As far as I know about the issue in Ukraine - but these days this still gets put into the corner of "conspiracy theories"; nevertheless people who seem to hear about it actually don't find it that illogical, and you know, by order everything in a communist state has to be tragedy due to stupidity and Neanderthalism: Allegedly in reality there happened an earthquake under the power plant just as the planned excercise was scheduled. Before the emergency test run started, the trouble already was on the loose. Due to nobody taking into account to build such a facility strong against such natural disasters back then that it's able to take some bits, the matter was hopeless, they had no chance in that moment. Could have happened the same way anywhere else in another country, as all of them didn't calculate such things into their construction plans for their nuclear power plants build in the 70s and 80s. The facility in Japan specifically, they even made the fatal error voluntarily of reducing the cliffs that the power plant originally would stand on just to save the efforts and associated costs of pumping the sea water for cooling up the whole cliff. They build it like "well, there will be no tsunami comming this way in Japan" (on volcano-created islands!). Hadn't they done this, the whole issue would have ended differently, maybe the power plant even wouldn't have seen more than little puddles of water. The plant, I think, was basically build in the 70s, enhanced over time again and again... ...Cool story, right?
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Date: 26 April 2017 12:54 pm (UTC)Compared to Fukushima it's nothing, that's right. Chernobyl only saw one reactor of four blowing up; Fukushima saw five of six (!). Additionally, there's no doubt to it that a tsunami wave devastated the area otherwise also.
As far as I know about the issue in Ukraine - but these days this still gets put into the corner of "conspiracy theories"; nevertheless people who seem to hear about it actually don't find it that illogical, and you know, by order everything in a communist state has to be tragedy due to stupidity and Neanderthalism: Allegedly in reality there happened an earthquake under the power plant just as the planned excercise was scheduled. Before the emergency test run started, the trouble already was on the loose.
Due to nobody taking into account to build such a facility strong against such natural disasters back then that it's able to take some bits, the matter was hopeless, they had no chance in that moment.
Could have happened the same way anywhere else in another country, as all of them didn't calculate such things into their construction plans for their nuclear power plants build in the 70s and 80s.
The facility in Japan specifically, they even made the fatal error voluntarily of reducing the cliffs that the power plant originally would stand on just to save the efforts and associated costs of pumping the sea water for cooling up the whole cliff. They build it like "well, there will be no tsunami comming this way in Japan" (on volcano-created islands!).
Hadn't they done this, the whole issue would have ended differently, maybe the power plant even wouldn't have seen more than little puddles of water. The plant, I think, was basically build in the 70s, enhanced over time again and again...
...Cool story, right?