Timeline for Have 1.5% of all nuclear reactors ever built melted down?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 19, 2019 at 20:39 | comment | added | GordonM | Not all the incidents listed above were meltdowns. SL-1 was a prompt-criticality followed by a steam explosion, and Windscale was a graphite/metal fire, for example. I don't think Three Mile Island was a meltdown either. | |
| S Aug 19, 2019 at 12:52 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Aug 19, 2019 at 12:52 | history | suggested | Flewrider | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Spelling mistake in the word reactors (wrong: reacotors) + edit in the example numbers in the third to last paragraph because 1 of a thousand is not 1% but 0.1%. New Numbers give a better idea of the implications.
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| May 28, 2019 at 5:37 | comment | added | jwenting | And another thing to consider: 1.5% means exactly nothing without comparing it to problems in competing industries, like coal fired plants (that tend to release massive amounts of toxins into the atmosphere when they have their rather frequent mishaps and even during normal operation). | |
| May 27, 2019 at 21:35 | vote | accept | LShaver | ||
| May 27, 2019 at 20:46 | comment | added | redleo85 | Nope. I removed submarines and vessels from the list, because the claim referrs to nuclear power stations. Added a note now, that the list has been shortened. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 20:44 | history | edited | redleo85 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
note that list has been cleared of some entries
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| May 27, 2019 at 18:06 | comment | added | LShaver | The second list says 21 but includes 11 reactors. Did other plants besides Fukushima have multiple reactors? | |
| May 27, 2019 at 15:01 | history | edited | redleo85 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Limitations, remove research reactors
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| May 24, 2019 at 7:33 | comment | added | redleo85 | @user71659 If you have more comprehensive sources that are relevant to the question, please feel free to provide them. I'll happily try to integrate them into the answer. | |
| May 24, 2019 at 1:21 | comment | added | user71659 | Anyway, this answer shows blatant cherrypicking in that it counts early naval reactors that melted (SL-1) but ignores later ones, and it counts early research reactors that melted (e.g. Santa Susana) but ignores later ones (TRIGAs, a number of AHRs, etc; I checked the list, they're not on there). | |
| May 23, 2019 at 21:35 | history | edited | redleo85 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
additional context
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| S May 23, 2019 at 20:26 | history | suggested | svick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
corrected quote formatting
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| S May 23, 2019 at 15:14 | history | suggested | David Tonhofer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a few links to the incident pages at Wikipedia
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| May 23, 2019 at 8:01 | history | edited | redleo85 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
number correction
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| May 23, 2019 at 7:53 | history | edited | redleo85 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarification, emphasis
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| May 22, 2019 at 22:25 | history | answered | redleo85 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |