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Mythbusters # 7: Nuclear Reactor Safety (1992)
| Author | Safe Energy Comm. Counsil |
| Date | October 1992 |
| Classification | 6.01.3.10/19 (NUCLEAR SAFETY - REACTORS - GENERAL) |
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NUCLEAR REACTOR SAFETY Safe Energy Communication Council's WINTER/1992 MYTH # 7 Busters On April 26, 1986, a meltdown and explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant spread radiation around the world. Some 200,000 people were evacuated from cities and towns in Belarus and Ukraine. All agricultural products within the evacuation zone were destroyed. The United States had already experienced several nuclear accidents prior to the 1979 partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island (TMI) near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Had another hour passed before the reactor was finally brought under control, the TMI accident could have been as bad as Chernobyl. But TMI was not our only brush with disaster. Mishaps occur regularly because of safety problems at U.S. nuclear plants. The nuclear industry downplays the safety risks posed by the 111 nuclear reactors currently licensed to operate in the U.S. In MYTH Busters #7, SECC examines the industry's myths regarding nuclear reactor safety and finds that: • Based on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international assessments, another meltdown at a U.S. nuclear plant is likely within twenty years. • Aging reactors, the degradation of safety systems, lax safety regulation enforcement and poor management by utilities all contribute to decreasing safety margins at U.S. plants. • A new generation of nuclear reactors cannot be "inherently safe," will not eliminate all existing safety problems and may create new ones.
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