Interesting Bezza. Thanks.

The story I heard about Chernobyl (Russians tell a lot of stories) was that the nuclear technicians wanted to restart a reactor before the Xenon 135 had dissipated, so they began to remove the fixed control rods. At a point the neutron flux started accelerating and the technicians tried to control the situation by jamming the control rods back in, which made things worse. Anyway, that's the explanation I was aware of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCbms6umE_o

Actually Fester I suspect that the two explanations are a different
view of the same incident.

Bazz,

I didn't know that containment vessels were useless with a graphite moderator, so thanks for that, but the point I was making was that graphite moderated reactors are safe if used properly.

Cheers

graphite moderated reactors are safe if used properly.
Fester,
So would everything else including Govt & Bank online services !

Indyvidual,

Chernobyl is the worst disaster that could happen to a nuclear power plant and such a disaster could not happen with the passively safe designs today.

Nature now thrives in the exclusion zone, which is really not so surprising when you consider that there are places on earth with natural radiation levels 60% as high.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/christensen1/

Renewable energy. Now that is an environmental disaster in the making. It is especially nasty as its prior economic harm means that there will be fewer resources to deal with the problems.

Fester,
Yes, the renewable energy hype is already costing us too much in every aspect & the sooner this gravy train pulling the bandwagons can be put off the rails the better for our future.
If & what a big if it is, the bureaudroids in authority & the brainless in the education system were to be made responsible for their pushing of renewable energy, the sooner we could save the worst environmental disasters this planet is now facing !
I'm dismayed at the stupidity of so many educated people ! I suppose parasitism has no limits !