> -----Original Message----- > From: William Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:03 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Global Warming Prophet says this is our last chance to act > > > 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 Chernobyl, for instance, was an outdated reactor 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.
Let's be fair: Chernobyl should never be brought up when talking about current nuclear issues. The reactor was shoddily designed, horribly maintained and completely mismanaged. The accident itself was caused by so-called "safety tests" run by people more worried about getting their government managers angry than actual safety. It was design failure under management failure under operator failure under response failure. The Chernobyl accident resulted from greed, pride and a sheep-like sense of duty - not anything inherent aspect of nuclear power. Saying nuclear power shouldn't be pursued because of Chernobyl is like saying there should be no business anywhere because of Enron or no more cars because of the Edsel or no more elections because of Florida. It's like cancelling school for everybody because that one kid down the street is retarded. (For what it's worth I'm not a huge of nuclear power and I don't think it's a good idea to build plants willy-nilly. Wind plants, solar thermal plants, tidal plants and other, safer, less impactful solutions should all be tried first. But my opinion on nuclear power is definitely not shaped by Chernobyl.) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:262692 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
