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Originally Posted by renormalised
Actually, Claude, everyone in the know, knew that the design for the Chernobyl power plant's reactors was faulty right from the start. Even the designers of the plant knew it...it was purely a political decision which saw them built in the first place, despite what the engineers advised.
Those 4th generation powerplants are safe...a lot safer than the older style of plants and far safer than coal fired plants. ...
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Carl,
I think you make my point. Everyone it seems knew that Chernobyl was faulty yet they went ahead and built it; they went ahead and told everyone it was safe and they went ahead and built it for purely political reasons. All these factors (and billions of others we haven’t even thought of yet) can happen again and again in the next 10, 20, 50 etc years to bring about a nuclear disaster. To say its safe is like saying the concord aeroplane is safe. In another context that level of risk might be acceptable but in the context of the nuclear debate its not because the consequences of one disaster are just so devastating. Probability says
something will go wrong esp when you consider how long the danger remains and the continuing proliferation of more reactors. And all the environmental benefits we might derive from nuclear power, say over a 50 year period can be undone in the space of an afternoon and whole continents can be affected as we saw in the case of Chernobyl. That’s why its meaningless to say its safe. In the context of nuclear power you got to say something more. You got to say its guaranteed, which ofcourse you cant. No instrument that man has created, NOT ONE can be guaranteed against mishap. And the consequences are too great to risk here.
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Originally Posted by AG Hybrid
Pointing out chernobyl. What a surprise. You would think from such a comment that humans dont learn from their mistakes and improve on themselves.
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All I'm saying, the people of Australia should go and do the research. Everyone has the internet now, they can all go and find out for themselves, instead of eating what politicians of different agenda feed them.
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Oh he mentioned Chernobyl. Not fair, that’s hitting below the belt.
Adrian, if my reply was touchy I apologise but I think you might not be correct in assuming that the touchiness was due to the subject matter. Indeed it may in fact have had something to do with your rudeness in suggesting that anyone who didn’t agree with you about nuclear power was ignorant and had not done their homework (oh and of course you have – what a joke).
Chernobyl needs to be screamed from the roof tops every time someone says lets go nuclear because no matter what systems you devise nuclear disaster will happen again. Oh and since we're here we may as well also mention Kyshtym, Three Mile Island, Windscale, and Church Rock to name a few more.