https://apple.news/A8IUXUjq8SiqjpoJpBP3e6w

 

That reactor needs to be fail-safe and then some.
https://factsheets.inl.gov/FactSheets/Just the Facts_SL-1.pdf

Navy Seabee Richard C. Legg, 26, was impaled against the ceiling by a metal shield plug •
Army Specialist John A. Byrnes, 22, who improperly pulled the control rod, was slammed against a concrete wall, his ribs piercing his heart •
Army Specialist Richard Leroy McKinley, 27, was knocked unconscious and lived two hours, dying from head wounds in an ambulance waiting for a doctor to arrive from Idaho Falls to determine how best to care for him.

 

That reactor needs to be fail-safe and then some.
https://factsheets.inl.gov/FactSheets/Just the Facts_SL-1.pdf

Navy Seabee Richard C. Legg, 26, was impaled against the ceiling by a metal shield plug •
Army Specialist John A. Byrnes, 22, who improperly pulled the control rod, was slammed against a concrete wall, his ribs piercing his heart •
Army Specialist Richard Leroy McKinley, 27, was knocked unconscious and lived two hours, dying from head wounds in an ambulance waiting for a doctor to arrive from Idaho Falls to determine how best to care for him.

Agreed, though keeping in mind the cited case was over 60 years ago, and designs and procedures have since changed (or, at very least, should have) to account for the causes. There are currently 436 active reactors in the world (excluding those on submarines and other craft), so the catastrophic disaster rate is sitting at under 1% (SL-1, 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima being the cases I'm aware of).

 

Agreed, though keeping in mind the cited case was over 60 years ago, and designs and procedures have since changed (or, at very least, should have) to account for the causes. There are currently 436 active reactors in the world (excluding those on submarines and other craft), so the catastrophic disaster rate is sitting at under 1% (SL-1, 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima being the cases I'm aware of).

I work with lots of former Navy reactor techs that all helped to make that great safety record but I still worry about robust containment on small nuclear modular reactors in the case of the unknown and the unexpected.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/small-modular-reactors

 

Then there's the Demon Core that makes everything else seem safe as sitting in a bank vault on a clear day. It's hard to believe these guys were actually doing this stuff. It's pure nuts.