On 4/15/2011 5:57, Invisible wrote:
> That's kind of my point. You only need to be slightly wrong about one tiny
> thing, and it's game over.

Not really. Look up thorium salt reactors. They don't go critical, the 
wastes are not very radioactive, you can't blow them up, etc etc. They're 
much safer.

> Fires can be put out, even oil spills can be mopped up [eventually]. But
> radiation is forever. [Or rather, "for such a huge time period that it might
> as well be forever".]

Depending on the radiation, oil spills probably last longer than lots of 
kinds of radiation problems.

> I tend to take anything they say with a large pinch of salt.

The other thing to realize about the nuclear industry is that the 
regulations are far stricter than anywhere else. For example, you can't 
build a nuclear reactor out of granite (the same stuff you might have in 
your kitchen) because the granite is too radioactive. I think bananas emit 
more radiation than nuclear reactors are allowed to leak.

Sort of like complaining about the exhaust from a Prius when you are driving 
through downtown LA and the air coming out of the exhaust is cleaner than 
the air going in.

> That's not a safety failure. That's an epic SUCCESS! WTF, people?!

Only because God did it! ;-)


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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    driving without turn signals."

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