

I’m annoyed about this whole story, the guy claims to never have sailed before and is crossing the Pacific ocean in like a 25 foot boat. The ocean isn’t forgiving. A single storm would be more than capable of capsizing his vessel in the open ocean. What he’s doing is reckless, dangerous, and inconsiderate of his close friends and family.
Chernobyl was disastrous because design flaws were not relayed to the plant engineers. It took years of roadblocked research to find out what had happened. Even the man that had helped to design the RBMK reactor did not consider a meltdown was possible because the xenon that ended up poisoning the reactor would burn off under normal circumstances.
The meltdown could have been prevented if not for the soviet government inexplicably withholding critical information about the reactor from it’s own engineers.