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Subject: [Leica] Chernobyl Legacy
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Apr 25 20:05:00 2006

No, Three Mile Island did not show  that a "properly designed nuclear
reactor cannot cause a serious problem to the environment;" it showed that a
properly designed reactor is far less likely to melt down than one of those
Russian chopshop jobs, and it also showed that we were very, very lucky.


On 4/25/06 9:06 PM, "Marc James Small" <msmall@aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> At 08:27 PM 4/25/06 -0400, Walt Johnson wrote:
> 
>> I can't help but feel our system of CYA is far superior and
>> Three Mile Island comes to mind.  Lack luster Russian engineering aside,
>> the  reactions of our own  (edited out in my original post) Christian
>> Right salivating over a "commie disaster" is hard to deny.  Holier than
>> thou always strikes me as the unholiest of all.
> 
> Walt
> 
> I concur that TMI shows that a properly designed nuclear reactor cannot
> cause a serious problem to the environment.
> 
> I am not certain why you insist on conflating Christian and Right-Wing --
> many Christians are rather Left-Wing politically, and many Right-Wingers
> are agnostic, if that matters a bit.  And I do not recall any of the sort
> of polemics of the sort you describe when the Chernobyl disaster occurred -
> and at that time, I was rather active in what you would probably describe
> as "Right-Wing" politics.  I do recall a lot of comments from engineers
> about the various warnings the West had sent the USSR over the decade or
> more prior to the disaster about the dangers they were running. though.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] Chernobyl Legacy)
In reply to: Message from msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Chernobyl Legacy)