Perhaps you just need some properly built nuclear plants. :) Ontario has 3 nuclear plants that generator 40% of the province's power and these things are pretty much the safest nukes in the world. Last time I took a tour of one, they said they were building similar plants for other countries. Perhaps you Yanks want to buy some Canadian built technology, eh? http://www.opg.com/newgen/nuclear/nuclear.asp -- James S. Smith The first time I ever administered Exchange 5.5 was Feb 21st, 2001. The last time I ever wanted to touch Exchange 5.5 was Feb 21st, 2001 On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Roger Marquis wrote:
All true, but irrelevant to the people with cancer in the Ukraine and elsewhere. Still, having worked in rnd.pge.com back when it was a state of the art department, the consensus there was that small nuclear plants were far safer than the large one's in vogue before 3 mile island (whose core is now encased in concrete for thousands of years).
No question nuclear is clean but only if you carefully ignore the danger of depleted uranium. But I digress, that's a problem for future generations (if we're lucky).
Roger
Sorry, but nukes are clean and safe. Sure people have died from nukes, but millions have died from producing coal for plants. Why do we build coal plants and not nukes? Because people don't care if OTHERS die, if 100,000 people a year die from digging coal they are not in your community, that is better then the risk to THEM however small.