On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 November 2011 23:12, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> BTW, far more number of people die in road and rail accidents in India >> and around the world than nuclear reactors going bust. >> >> Should we ban all road and rail travel? after all auto-mobiles and >> rail are also considered technology. > > This particular meme seems to be absolutely standard around the world, > to be used in all scenarios where one wants to enforce one's point of > view. And of course, it is plain wrong.
Really? > > Road accidents can be certainly reduced by banning road travel, and > that is obviously not a decision you want to make. So you will start > by identifying particular stretches of roads that seem to be more > dangerous than others and (a) ban traffic on those stretches, or (b) > improve those stretches to eliminate the accident-causing factors. > Since banning is still not an option, you will turn to the latter. Why can the same argument apply to nuclear technology? > > If you do that in a structured way, you will also further emerge with > metrics like "accidents per 1000 vehicles" or "accidents per 1000 > route-km" and so on, that will allow you to meaningfully compare two > separate stretches of roads. Right > > And then you will attempt to do a similar analysis with a planned > nuclear reactor. You will end up realizing that in terms of the metric > that can be meaningfully compared - like "deaths per 1000 population" > or "deaths per year of operation" - your average nuclear reactor is > several orders of magnitude more dangerous that your average state > highway. Pointers/Links to those stats? > > Now you will start factoring in the probability of a failure. At which > point, after investigating the geological and other factors, you will > hopefully realize the killer legacy our current incumbent in the PMO > is hell bent on leaving for our children. Again. Figures and pointers to those studies facts please. BTW, I am no fan of incumbent PMO. In fact I don't like the governments. That is why I strongly like and advocate less government. Lesser Govt. Better Govt. :-) > > Binand With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System Pvt. Ltd. +91-98213-11906 +91-9833-TICKET http://www.shahmicro.com http://iopt.in http://crm.iopt.in Blog: http://dineshah.wordpress.com -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
