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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Why do they hate us?
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:28:21 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1992Dec21.225740.20062@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, 471-1@air.atmo.arizona.edu (E. Shane Jimerfield) writes:
- >You are right. I admitt error. However, I still have a problem with the
- >large build up of waste. Until there is a working solution to this
- >problem we should consider an alternative, and I don't mean the burning of
- >fossil fuels.
-
- Well, fine. Then do us a favor and die. After all, that will reduce *YOUR*
- use of resources.
-
- >I also made reference to Chernobyl and was then asked to keep my
- >references to the U.S. on the grounds of:
- >"The reason for limiting the search to the U.S., or any other Western Country,
- >is not underhanded. Chernobyl was due more to the failing of an incompetent
- >and illegitimate system than the failure of Nuclear Power. The (now defunct)
- >U.S.S.R. was rife with similar examples of irresponsibilit and the system
- >succumbed, inevitably, to its failings".
- >
- >What do you think about this?
-
- The management of the plant at Chernobyl was deliberately running the reactor
- well outside of specifications. There was no clear benefit to be gained by
- running the reactor in that way. The basic design of the reactor made running
- it in that fashion intrinsically dangerous, a fact known to the management at
- the time.
-
- Perhaps you could favor us with a realistic scenario as to how the same sort of
- thing might happen in a commercial reactor in the United States?
-
- Please don't forget to include the vastly different reactor designs in your
- scenario.
-
- Thanks.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-