Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.

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    1 year ago

    That 3 in 60 is pretty loaded since Chernobyl simply would not have been possible with western reactors of the same design year, to say nothing of what passed as modern than and even more so now.

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      It would also not have been possible with their design, if all the failguards wouldn’t have failed.

      But 2 in 60 years, both of western design, is still more than that study estimated.