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To: tejek who wrote (183206)	2/21/2004 10:56:54 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) of 1576170

tejek, re:People are afraid of a Chernobyl meltdown in the US. Out here in the West, this is not an unreasonable fear given the fact we are prone to earthquakes. Perhaps if we treat the core like an ICBM facility and harden it underground, terrorism from an airplance would be less of an issue. The entire room is then mounted on large springs to isolate from quakes - as they have been considering since Kobe and Northridge. Snippet from an article regarding lessons from past quakes, Oxford Engineering society. Two ways of meeting this rigorous challenge are currently being researched and adopted. In the first, base isolation, the main structure is positioned on rubber springs so that it remains static as the ground moves. This technique had been in occasional use for some years before the earthquakes but the events at Northridge and Kobe have given the idea new impetus, although it can only be incorporated economically for new buildings. We need to do something about the waste, I don't think earthquakes or terrorism pose much of a problem in comparison.

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