• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Catastrophic failure is not a failure mode for a modern reactor past its service life.

    Catastrophic failure is an engineering term, and also general language term, to describe when a device that breaks down completely, or breaks down in such a way that it’s completely unusable.

    You’re assuming I use that word just to explain a huge explosion and loss of life, which is possible as a side effect of catastrophic failure, but not necessarily, like 3 Mile island.