Daniel C. wrote:
"We self-irradiate ourselves at 40 millirems (a unit for measuring
small doses of radiation) per year because of the potassium 40 we
carry in our bodies. "[In] double beds, you know your spouse will
irradiate you to about 2 or 3 millirems a year," McGaffigan said.
"These are doses we actually regulate at. And I've always wondered,
when people demand even tighter [nuclear] regulation, why they're not
demanding that double beds be regulated or bananas be regulated or
Brazil nuts be regulated.""
Given this, I wonder why people object to pebble bed reactors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor
They seem like a dream come true for environmentalists, yet Greenpeace
seems to hate nuclear reactors in all forms. I don't get it.
Shane
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