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To: Metacomet who wrote (106970)8/11/2014 1:49:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation

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Decades ago, the fission reactor proponents argued that there was a 1:10,000 year chance of something going wrong. That was obviously absurd because there are wars several times a century and power stations are desirable targets. Tsunamis are much more frequent than once in 10,000 years too. So apart from mismanagement leading to meltdowns and fires, reactors will be destroyed in military attacks [including Al Qaeda style lone-wolf fun] and natural disasters.

As usual, I was proved right and the 1:10,000 year proponents were proved wrong. I was irradiated by Chernobyl in 1986 so I take it personally. We had to buy milk powder and vegetables quickly to avoid the possibility of being supplied radioactive nuclides in our food [not trusting your kleptocratic government departments to do the jobs they pretend to do].

Since you are always wrong, there must be something wrong. I'm ignorant about thorium reactors so I suppose it's the technicalities which you have wrong. Maybe they don't actually dispose of fission waste from uranium. <Another of the benefits of the MSR's is their ability to effectively incinerate that accumulated waste material> But even if they don't that's not an argument that they are no good. Perhaps they are simply technically too difficult and don't make economic sense, like fusion reactors are a great idea, except that they are not yet doable.

If they are such a great idea, companies like General Electric would be rolling them out by the dozen.

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