Reads like that is a very early post WWII weapons grade breeder reactor not a modern power plant. Actually coal fired steam power plants are the most environmentally unfriendly and dangerous ones, on second thought maybe Kerosun type heaters are...
Personally, I find humans the most dangerous things on earth, and they should be done away with ASAP! <GRIN> OTOH, as I have said before, life is a fatal disease. Every thing that has it dies eventually. So why worry about the small stuff? --graywolf Markus Maurer wrote: > So I'm simple misinformed about the nearly severe accidents at Sellafield in > the last years? > > http://www.answers.com/topic/sellafield > > Nuclear power use is one of the most dangerous things ever invented **for > me** and should be stopped ASAP. > greetings > Markus > > > > > Nuclear reactor facilities are built like fortresses. The structures > are reinforced concrete, the perimeters are designed to be defended, > and the security teams are typically equipped to repel anything short > of a determined military strike. (Whether they're trained to do that > is another story....) Add to that, modern cores are encased in a > multi-layered "tank" (steel and lead, primarily) that can withstand > much more agitation than even the building it resides in. All US > reactors also incorporate a SCRAM switch. This switch triggers > automatically if the core temperature gets too high, and in some cases > can trigger if the core temperature is increasing too quickly. The > operator can also trigger the switch manually. This results in the > rods being driven all the way into the core and slowing reaction to a > minimum. In this state the core is safe even without coolant being > circulated. Chernobyl style accidents are damn near impossible with > modern reactors. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
