Every reactor is a potential death machine. Coal as dirty as it is, in collection burning and waste, is much easier in an unplanned event. We are now at week two and it is bad. They know as little as the US gov. Did last summer in the gulf.
How long till this gets safe for the local crops to be consumed. Sent from my iPhone Stephen Russell 901.246-0159 On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:19 AM, "Alan Bourke" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
