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- From: richard@TIS.COM (Richard Clark)
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- Subject: Re: Why do they hate us?
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:14:38 GMT
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- In article <1hnh05INNnna@gap.caltech.edu> you write:
- >In article <1992Dec21.225740.20062@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, 471-1@air.atmo.arizona.edu (E. Shane Jimerfield) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- I wish I had Carl's faith in the US Govt. :) BWAAAAAAHAHAHAAAA! :)
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- Realistic scenario? Easy. What makes you think the US govt is not
- becoming more and more corrupt and incapable of performing its functions?
- What happens when the powers-that-be decide that its OK to abuse a reactor
- when they can't find funding to build a new one? Or when they know the
- regulators aren't looking? It costs mega-dollars to shut one of them things
- down, even for a little while for repairs. In a buck-driven society, people
- are meaningless, the greenback is lord. Sorry Carl, but as optimistic as
- I'd like to be, the only reality I can logicaly envision is not pretty.
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- Nuclear power safe? Only as long as its governing bodies are stable.
- The collapse that happened in the (former) USSR will eventually and inevitably
- happen here... Oooooo the ugliness... I think I'll stick my head back in the
- sand, butt in the air, and just give up and wait...
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