Sadly, stopping all Nuclear Power would involve the death of all living beings in the Solar System. All life currently depends on some form of Nuclear Power. That big bright ball in the sky is a Fusion Reactor.
Note that Sellafield is primarily a processing plant. Only one part of the plant was ever used for power generation and even that was primarily a plutonium production facility. So Sellafield is irrelevant to the discussion. Any vaguely current power plant reactor design is utterly different from a breeder reactor or plutonium enrichment reactor. The former are completely safe, the latter have distinct risks (It's possibly for a plutonium breeder to go critical (IE rach critical mass) in very unlikely circumstances, modern powerplant designs cannot go critical) -Adam Markus Maurer wrote: > So I'm simple misinformed about the nearly severe accidents at Sellafield in > the last years? > > http://www.answers.com/topic/sellafield > > Nuclear power use is one of the most dangerous things ever invented **for > me** and should be stopped ASAP. > greetings > Markus > > > > > Nuclear reactor facilities are built like fortresses. The structures > are reinforced concrete, the perimeters are designed to be defended, > and the security teams are typically equipped to repel anything short > of a determined military strike. (Whether they're trained to do that > is another story....) Add to that, modern cores are encased in a > multi-layered "tank" (steel and lead, primarily) that can withstand > much more agitation than even the building it resides in. All US > reactors also incorporate a SCRAM switch. This switch triggers > automatically if the core temperature gets too high, and in some cases > can trigger if the core temperature is increasing too quickly. The > operator can also trigger the switch manually. This results in the > rods being driven all the way into the core and slowing reaction to a > minimum. In this state the core is safe even without coolant being > circulated. Chernobyl style accidents are damn near impossible with > modern reactors. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
