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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (183290)2/23/2004 12:11:14 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (2) of 1575984
 
tejek,

re:Prior to 1994, most scientists thought the damage would be most acute at the epicenter. Hence, if you did not build a nuke reactor on a fault line, things would be fine. Wrong! The '94 quake saw some of the worst damage 30 miles from the epicenter in Santa Monica and Hollywood because of the way earthquake energy travels.

Still even in California at McDonnell Douglas we had machines over 100ft long with five accurate cutting heads with accuracy into the tens of thousandths of an inch withstand quake after quake and be recalibrated and restarted within minutes after a quake - these "monuments" as they called them where all sitting on isolated blocks of concrete or steel platforms suspended on springs or shocks. The core of a reactor is not all that large - the engineering feat is not all that great.

How you move what the terrorists want and what we all fear (nuclear waste) from California to Yucca Mountain is very troubling - in the past it was on essentially unguarded train cars.

Even so, given California quakes, I doubt they would be first - other parts of the country should be our focus initially and if we planned to just use nuclear power to create fuel (hydrogen) for vehicles to cut oil dependance that could be done far from any population center, like Yucca Mountain cutting the distance from spent fuel to long term storage. Of course you need water from somewhere for cooling and conversion to fuel.
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