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To: Sam who wrote (50284)	2/23/2008 7:04:39 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541915

I didn't mean to cause a fracas. I simply searched for and found something that looked credible re the financing of nuclear power plants. A simple "thank you" would have sufficed. <g>

To: Sam who wrote (50284)	2/23/2008 9:10:16 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Respond to of 541915

"In any case, if a nuclear plant has a safety accident, it is ipso facto a disaster." No it is not. First - what is a safety accident? Next - the plants are designed for containment. Chernobyl was not. I submit the above statement is unnecessarily alarmist and not objective.

To: Sam who wrote (50284)	2/26/2008 2:53:23 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541915

Many--probably most--large projects of this sort have cost overruns. Which doesn't address the issue of government regulation stalling further nuclear plant development. In any case, if a nuclear plant has a safety accident, it is ipso facto a disaster. Incidents that get reported as accidents or safety incidents typically are far short of disasters. Know anyone who has taken a vacation to Chernobyl in the past 20 something years? Chernobyl didn't have a containment vessel. It was a disaster, but it was also something very different than American nuclear plants which have released a lot less radiation in to the environment than our burning of coal has. It wasn't some place you would want to take a vacation to even before the accident, and maybe you can't visit the plant itself even now, but its safe to go in to a large part of the evacuated area. I've seen TV shows from it, and the measured radiation levels where not a problem (at least not for a visit, I'm not sure that you could live there). None of which means it wasn't a disaster. It was, but if it was an American plant it wouldn't have been.