Wouter, You make a valid point. See http://www.naval.ca/article/young/nuclearsubmarineaccidents_bymichaelyoung.html for a compendium of some of the problems that the underwater types have had over the years. And that is just the reactors, not the spent fuel....And those are just the ones they are telling us about... We in the "relatively civilised country" of the US have a pretty spotty record when it comes to waste too. The whole Yucca Mountain fiasco comes to mind... Every commercial reactor has piles of waste sitting around in casks or in pools on site with no idea what they are going to do with it. A couple of years ago a worker managed to blow the top off a storage cask about 100km from where I live while welding on it. Homer Simpson is not the only bozo working at a reactor... The waste problem seems to me to be essentially insoluble, both from a political and a technical standpoint. It is absolutely unconscionable that we didn't think through the life-cycle ramifications of this technology before we got this deep into it. Edward Gisske, P.E. Gisske Engineering 608-523-1900 gisske@offex.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wouter van Ooijen" To: Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 1:10 PM Subject: [OT:] Re: Other interesting world news > > Anyone that thinks these things are absolutely safe should research > > Chernobyl, Brown's Ferry, Three Mile Island, the Canadian NSX > > meltdown and other "problems" these beasts can have. > > IMHO the issue of 'reactor safety' is almost a non-issue, the real > problem is with the waste. And even when a relatively civilised country > like the US can keep its waste somehow enclosed there will be the > less-civilised countries that will 'enrich' our environment. Just check > what lies rusting away near the Kola penninsula :( > > Wouter van Ooijen > > -- ------------------------------------------- > Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl > consultancy, development, PICmicro products > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads