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To: Snowshoe who wrote (98430)	2/3/2005 7:37:52 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793682

i thought the new nuke systems proposed for electric generation are much safer. transportation of waste. I would think any vessels containing nuke waste would be constructed in such a way only a nuke bomb or high impact could release waste. one example years ago was nyc gasoline tank trucks .. they were all red and each tank itself i believe had 3" of steel around the product. you never saw one of those trucks explode... i expect all fittings would have two or three back ups. this country should move to more nuke power. the electric companies have taken the choice of using home heating natural gas for supply vs upgrades to clean coal or alternatives. this has been extremely costly for home heating and chemical industries who use a lot of natural gas. Let's get nukes on stream and take the demand off natural gas in this country.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (98430)	2/3/2005 7:38:23 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793682

Martin Cruz Smith's latest book, "Wolves Eat Dogs", is about Ukraine after Chernobyl. Smith is the author of "Gorky Park," and I think he is a very good writer.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (98430)	2/3/2005 1:59:24 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Respond to of 793682

One of the things the French have done if it hasn't changed since I left and quit paying attention to such things is all of their plants were the same design unlike ours where just about every one is different. So when they have had little design flaws over the years they can just go to every plant and fix the same item rather then each plant being an experiment unto itself.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (98430)	2/4/2005 6:39:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793682

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