2011-03-14, 05:27 PM
Anonymous Moose Wrote:And my main concern here is a second Chernobyl. Overall, nuclear power has a very clean history, with only one major blemish from human error. My greatest fear is that this event will be a combination of katrina and chernobyl (incompetence an neglegence combined with a natural disaster).
It really is amazing how little the two have in common...
I'll state first off that there is zero chance of anything remotely as bad as Chernobyl happening. It is physically not possible for this reactor.
Second, there's no sign of incompetence or negligence here. They've been extremely proactive in trying every possible measure to keep the reactor safe.
I'm not sure what you mean about "too old to be safely operating". Reactor 1 was indeed originally scheduled to be taken offline this month - but an inspection earlier this year ratified that it could operate safely for another decade. Sounds safe to me.
Also, are you prepared to share the blame when your FUD causes more deaths than the radioactivity itself? One old man has already died of fright, which is one death more than has been caused by the accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi.