Timeline for Why are other countries reacting negatively to Australia's decision to deploy nuclear submarines?
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| Sep 22, 2021 at 16:46 | comment | added | llama | @Isaac nothing on that page suggests that NZ has a nuclear reactor | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 14:05 | comment | added | Rekesoft | @DarrelHoffman Oh, I was referring to the type, rather than the scale. Remember, with radiation everything blows up out of proportion. Chernobyl caused a handful of casualties, but you'll find reports pegging every cancer happening after 1986 anywhere in the world on Chernobyl. You are probably thinking in REMs per square kilometer, and I was thinking more in "scared-the-bejesus-out-of-me" per square kilometer. Politicians tend to use the second unit mostly. | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 13:48 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Rekesoft Again, even if, absolute worst case scenario, it blew up while docked, next to a full cruise ship during Spring Break or whatever (unrealistic as it'd most likely be at a naval base), it'd still be nowhere near a Chernobyl-level disaster just because it's a much, much smaller reactor. | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 12:52 | comment | added | Crazymoomin | Incorrect disposal of nuclear medical equipment has led to mass contamination incidents in the past, while perhaps not as extensive as a power plant incident, can still cause fatalities and costly clean-up, see Goiânia accident | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 10:25 | comment | added | Rekesoft | @DarrelHoffman You're assuming an accident while on patrol. If the accident happens while the sub is at the harbour - or even while they are testing the engine at the building facility - you have a Chernobyl-like event. | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 4:57 | comment | added | Isaac | note: New Zealand actually HAS a nuclear reactor (for research purposes) gns.cri.nz/Home/Our-Science/Nuclear-and-Isotope-Science | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 1:17 | comment | added | Michael Homer | This answer is now knowingly and wilfully false, and I don't understand why it hasn't been fixed when you edited it after the error was identified in the comments. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 23:11 | comment | added | user2617804 | What is a PET Scanner other than Positron Emission Tomography medical body scanner? | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 18:06 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Well, we're also talking about a much smaller reactor. As far as Chernobyl is concerned, large parts of the initially affected region are now, only a few decades later considered relatively safe, I wouldn't be surprised to see much of it mostly resettled in 50 years or so (except for immediately around the power plant - that could indeed be millennia). Still a far greater impact than one sub would have of course. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 17:57 | comment | added | quarague | @DarrelHoffman In the case of a submarine the uninhabitable area may me mostly ocean but that doesn't make it any more acceptable and to my knowledge Chernobyl will be uninhabitable for millenia not just decades. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 17:53 | history | edited | quarague | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2021 at 17:06 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | While a nuclear powered sub having a catastrophic malfunction would be bad news for the crew of the sub, and possibly some nearby marine life, it would be nowhere near a Chernobyl-level disaster, which rendered a large area uninhabitable for decades. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 15:53 | comment | added | llama | The ban is on use of nuclear power for military purposes, as @user253751 said civilian nuclear power plants are not banned (there's just no use for them since hydro power is so abundant) | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 15:51 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | FYI, the standard English spelling is Chernobyl; that Tchernobyl spelling seems to be used in French. Obviously both are transliterations of a Cyrillic name, and some like czar vs. tsar have multiple well-known transliterations / spellings, so the Tchernobyl spelling is comprehensible to native English speakers (at least it was to me), especially given the context. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 13:21 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | I heard NZ allows nuclear power plants for civilian use (but nobody has actually proposed to build one) | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 7:59 | history | answered | quarague | CC BY-SA 4.0 |