Chernobyl was built out of duct tape and unicorn fur. To say that it was not up to code would've been the understatement of the twentieth century. The Soviets decided to build it retardedly. Enough said.
And let's not forget that the failure was specifically due to a test that no one approved, was done with a crew that wasn't trained for it, and required turning off all the failsafes they had.
It really was the perfect disaster.
Three Mile Island, well, if my sources are correct, there were insignificant casualties if any; plus it was caused by user inefficiency, rather than any sort of problem with the power source.
Zero casualties and a study done years later concluded that the cancer rate for those involved was no higher than the national average.
Am I the only person who thinks that we should seriously look into antimatter energy generation? Really, you get no leftover waste from that stuff. NO WASTE. AT ALL. An if anyone brings up the fact that it would obliterate the planet, it could just as easily be produced on demand so none is ever in storage.
Oh come on, I
just went over this. You can't
generate power with antimatter. You can
store power, but it takes a thousand times more energy to make the stuff than what it puts out. And do you know how much of a nightmare it would be to harness that for anything other than rocket fuel?
Actually, that's a perfect analogy. Rocket fuel is many times more powerful than oil, but no one uses it in power plants because it take enormous amounts of time and money to make the stuff and the manufacturing process uses more energy than the rocket fuel will return.
You see, folks, Dan Brown books aren't just wrong about their wild conspiracy theories and religious conjecture. They get all the science wrong too.
