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- From: neff@iaiowa.physics.uiowa.edu (John S. Neff)
- Subject: Re: Breeder reactors...
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:45:25 GMT
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- In article <BzKHM2.8D3.1@cs.cmu.edu> pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering") writes:
- >From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
- >Subject: Re: Breeder reactors...
- >Date: 20 Dec 92 16:52:27 GMT
- >
- >\bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
- >
- >/>Speaking of breeder reactors, why doesn't the U.S. have more of
- >\>them?
- >
- >/Because they're too damn dangerous.
- >
- >\Zack Sessions
- >/sessions@seq.uncwil.edu
- >\University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Alumnus)
- >/"Good health is merely the slowest form of dying."
- >
- >Same reason we don't have automobiles, eh?
- >
- >There isn't anything inherently dangerous about breeders. It's
- >just that there are a bunch of lobotomized idiots out there
- >who are more concerned with making policy than actually knowing
- >anything about nuclear physics.
- >
- >Of course, these same people have prevailed upon the government
- >to ban nuclear fuel recycling. I had a hard time trying to
- >convince a friend of my dad's the other day that there was a
- >solution to the nuclear waste problem, and the gubbimint, "will
- >ofthepeeble" (or the feeble minded) had _banned_ a way to reduce
- >the "dangerousawfulearthdestroyingnucularwaste" problem by a
- >couple orders of magnitude.
- >
- >--
- >Phil Fraering
- >"...drag them, kicking and screaming, into the Century of the Fruitbat."
- ><<- Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_
- >PGP key available if and when I ever get around to compiling PGP...
- The Enrico Fermi power plant near Detroit was the first and only
- commercial breeder reactor in the United States. Because of a design
- failure the a cooling pipe broke inside of the reactor. They were able to
- shut down the reactor without release of radiation, but evidently it was
- a real nail biter. Some idiot was quoted as saying " We nearly lost
- Detroit". The net result of this incident was the no commercial power
- company has considered building a breeder reactor.
-
- When Carter was president he opposed breeder reactors because of his
- concern about the poliferation of nuclear weapons.
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-