>From: "Don Libby" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:52 PM >Subject: [Global Change: 3115] Re: Nuclear Risk >
>From: "Wooj" <[email protected]> >Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change >To: "globalchange" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:18 AM >Subject: [Global Change: 3113] Nuclear Risk > >>Much to my chagrin, I have heard that there is a new smaller nuclear >>plant being "sold" to folks looking for more power in their own >>backyard, so to speak. This is alarming from the standpoint of >>terrorist threat or failure to contain, since (1) there is no way we >>can possibly guard every single one of these things adequately and (2) >>there is no likely way to create a fail-safe mechanism, and mechanical >>and human systems to fail. > >I see you have expressed some of your fears here. Would it be too much to >ask you to gather and post some basic facts like who, what, where, when, >and >why so we can form a better opinion of whether your fears are grounded in >fact or fantasy? I see no cause for alarm and no ground in Wooj's fears, since (1) every single one of these things is guarded adequately and (2) there are fail-safe mechanisms already in place. However, it is true that some new smaller nuclear plants are likely to be produced in the not too distant future: http://www.babcock.com/products/modular_nuclear/ http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=2216 http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/ http://www.nuscalepower.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
