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4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ikidd to c/technology

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Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island were not freak accidents.

Fukushima involved bad mistakes and a set of freak accidents. It was hit first by a the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan and then by a tsunami.

Now sure, there are plenty of mistakes they made that seem obvious in hindsight. But, it's fundamentally different from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl where the only causes were design and operational mistakes.

[–] McFarius 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That is fair, I would call that a bit of perspective, bit not unfair perspective. Yes, it did take significant disasters to make the mistakes apparent, so who's to say if anybody would've noticed or how much of a problem they would've been.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah. In hindsight a nuclear power plant in a country with frequent earthquakes has to be hardened against earthquakes. Earthquakes can cause tsunamis so any plant on the coast has to be ready to handle tsunamis. Tsunamis come a while after earthquakes, so they have to be prepared for the double whammy of an earthquake with a tsunami just a short time later. And, to be fair, it's not like they hadn't thought of those things at all. It's just that they made some design mistakes that seem obvious in hindsight.

But, it's still significantly better than power plants that just melt down completely on their own due to incompetent design and incompetent operations, with no triggering natural disaster.