This neglects the failure modes of nuclear power. The biggest danger, by far, is overheating, fire, and melting.
Paradoxically, a nuclear plant could be made extremely safe if it just dumped all the fuel into the ocean at the first sign of trouble.
With ulimited cooling the fuel can't melt so it will be safely contained within the rods/pellets.
Yes the radiation near to the fuel would be insane, but water is so dense it would be safe to swim around maybe 50 feet away.
There's never been a bad accident in spent fuel pools even though they contain orders of magnitude more fuel than operating reactors. This is just because it's really hard to melt something sitting in thousands of tons of water
Paradoxically, a nuclear plant could be made extremely safe if it just dumped all the fuel into the ocean at the first sign of trouble.
With ulimited cooling the fuel can't melt so it will be safely contained within the rods/pellets.
Yes the radiation near to the fuel would be insane, but water is so dense it would be safe to swim around maybe 50 feet away.
There's never been a bad accident in spent fuel pools even though they contain orders of magnitude more fuel than operating reactors. This is just because it's really hard to melt something sitting in thousands of tons of water