Wouldn't bother me - but with some caveats. The situation in Japan, to me, is an advert *for* nuclear power as much as anything. These are 40-year-old reactors, almost decomissioned, and designed to withstand an earthquake maximum one-fifth the size of the one that hit them. Yet there has been no serious breach of containment that we know of. Nobody has died. A bunch of coal miners died in New Zealand last year. Another lot nearly died in Chile. Why aren't we banning mining?
So, I think we need to get away from old reactor designs and work hard on developing small, self-contained modular reactors, using a travelling-wave design perhaps. These could use the waste from traditional reactors as fuel and consume it over many decades. One problem is that traditionally we have the nuclear industry, who are undoubtedly a bunch of self-serving liars hiding behind government nuclear security laws. On the other hand we have an anti-nuclear lobby who run around flapping their arms because every reactor must be a potential Chernobyl. There's very little middle ground. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
