The part that I’m amazed by is that no civilian seems to know about the TVA meltdown. It’s the only full meltdown we ever had, and the Army Corps of Engineers lost all access to nuclear power because of that incident, as they intentionally melted it down to test China Syndrome. This was in the 50s. They did build the thing inside of a mountain to contain all the radiation, but had the physicist that came up with China Syndrome been right, that wouldn’t have really mattered. They also could have just done the math to figure out that, yet again, the physicist in question understood physics just fine, but lacked in mathematics.
Emerald@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I looked up TVA meltdown, got no results about it.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It may still be classified. I learned about it in Nuclear Power School in the Navy