Recent content by Abel_II

There is an old term in buisness. You want it Good, Fast, or Cheap? You can have good but it won't be fast and cheap. You can have cheap but it won't be fast and good. You can have fast but it won't be cheap or good. They wanted the reactor fast. You can chalk that up to politics...

Wooz, The major factors in the accident happened during the test. The most significant of those would be the reactor becoming unstable durring low power outputs. Things such as the structure not being able to contain the explosion due to the materials used during construction did have an...

Sander, I spelled out why Communisim played a factor in Chernobyl. I can site references if you like. Both the US and Russia were in a competition to build Nuclear Reactors. The diffrence is if a worker in the US thought that things were moving to fast and becoming unsafe they could...

Sorry to get back to you guys so late. Thanks for the comments both good and bad. Now to defend my position. Communisim was one of the reasons, on of the several. Communisim could be blamed for the hastely built reactor. Sure Fomin and Bryukhanov agreed to rush construction to...

You have to understand that both UN and Greenpeace have motives for estimating death toll. Greenpeace wants to stop the use of nuclear power plants (which is just plain unrealistic) UN is wanting to help the countries who are paying massive amounts of money to victims of the accident...

Nicely done. Here is a site I made last night as a tribute. http://chernobyl20.ytmnd.com/