> And how many years ago was that? Many.
> How much change since then? Leaps and bounds. Chernobyl, for instance, was an outdated reactor design that was operating way past its prime. the reason the accident happened the way it did was because of the way the control rods were inserted into the reactor itself, from the side. The armature that controlled the opening and closing of the control rods failed in the open position. Disaster. Modern designs (and indeed newer designs at the time of the accident) implement a gravity closure model for control rod insertion. if the control rod armature fails in any way, gravity takes over, the rods are inserted into the reactor and reaction stops. that's only one of many design/safety features implemented in the last 20 years. > And they were > far from being the same. Yup. 3 Mile Island didn't kill or injure anyone. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html ~2 million people were exposed to ~1 millirem of radiation ~1/6 of that of a chest x-ray. > I wonder how many other countries have nuclear reactors providing > electricity? lots of them. France is 80%+ nuclear. -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262685 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
