The fact is that HUMANS will build the new reactors; interfere with engineering plans and systems; and not be trained properly.<p>If a reactor can&#x27;t be safely designed, built and run by fallible humans then it shouldn&#x27;t be built.<p>I have talked to people in the coal power industry. There are plenty of cases of accidents.<p>In one case they started up the generator with the oil pumps turned off - the multi-tonne rotor ripped off the bearing then rolled through the hall crushing everything in its path. What if that had been a nuclear power station?<p>A manager without a clue asked for a chute to be opened, the worker tried to explain why that was a bad idea, the manager insisted and a few kilograms of coal dropped down on them.<p>It can take minutes for the mulit-tonne generator to synchronise with the 50Hz supply frequency. There are special electric motors that retard or advance the generator until it is in sync, then keep it in sync. Normally there are resistors to allow the sync to happen slowly. However in one case it was thrown to full power before the sync was complete. There was a momentary blackout through the southern UK while a huge amount of power was used to sync the generator in a fraction of a second. Strangely the fuses didn&#x27;t blow.