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kleinbl00 · 4116 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Nuclear Bomb Almost Exploded in North Carolina (*in 1961*)
The important difference is that nuclear power plants have to work pretty much continuously, and they have to do it in such a way that not only do they produce useful, repeatable energy, they do so without causing harm to the hundreds of people who tend them. Bombs need to work once and very effectively NOT WORK the rest of the time. That said, Chernobyl was pushed pretty far outside its comfort zone. 3mile island was contained. And Fukushima wasn't designed to deal with the cataclysm it encountered. Nothing is. Food for thought.