| > Fukushima gave the debate another spin „If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can“. That's an understandable reaction. But a better reaction would have been "what lessons did we learn?". After the 2008 financial crisis, the financial regulators around the world gathered at the 2009 Pittsburgh Summit [1] to see what can be done to improve the resiliency of the global financial markets. They came up with a Statement [2]. Later on, the Basel Committee ironed out some details, and the national regulators other details, and the outcome was a long string of financial reforms known collectively as Basel III. This was a monumental achievement (well, it's still work in progress, but it's about 80-90% done). Of course, for many professionals in the financial markets it felt more like a curse than a blessing. But we have been trough the March 2020 financial panic, and the financial system coped quite well. In the nuclear regulatory space, there are so many regulators around the world. The NRC for sure, but also the nuclear regulators in Canada, the UK, France and Finland. One can add South Korea to the list and probably a few more countries. I'm sure they are exchanging notes. Overall, I think they have probably a huge amount of experience, and they have met 99.999% of the edge cases for classical (pressurized and boiling water) reactors. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_G20_Pittsburgh_summit [2] http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/2009/2009communique0925.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III |