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To: Snowshoe who wrote (98430)	2/4/2005 6:39:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 793689

The odds of a major accident are extremely low if you have good rules and safety procedures. The problem is that a serious accident can poison a large area and force millions of people to move out of an area for hundreds of years. A Chernobyl type accident could do that. Such an accident has never happened in a western country (but happened twice in the USSR). Just having a containment vessel (which the Soviet plants did not have) around the plant tremendously increases safety. Also newer designs are being developed that are pretty much passively safe (if they fail the failure ends the reaction before the plant can melt down, you might destroy millions of dollars of equipment but you don't poison the area). Tim

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