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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.225328.27641@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: energy environment press
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan20.185150.16256@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan20.234658.2413@pmafire.inel.gov> <58992@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:53:28 GMT
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- In article <58992@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >>>>On the news last night: Greenpeace releases a commissioned report (from
- >>>>someone in the U.S.) demonstrating that the chances of a meltdown accident
- >>>>in a CANDU reactor are 1 in 17, which they point out are better odds than
- >>>>the chance of throwing snake eyes with dice.
- >>
- >>Probably not. Their attorneys would plead incompetence.
- >
- >Since all estimates in this "field" are backup up with a lot of hand-waving
- >it would be tough to prove anything more than use of different
- >assumptions.
-
- Okay, Victor, here's your big chance:
-
- Tell us all how the chances of a meltdown from a CANDU are 1 in 17, not
- 1 in 17,000,....
-
- I want to see your model, your assumptions, and your *measured data* to
- back this up.
-
- Tino
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