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- From: 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom)
- Subject: Breeder reactors
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:32:48 GMT
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- Brenda asks;
- >>Speaking of breeder reactors, why doesn't the U.S. have more of
- >>them?
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- Zack sez:
- >Because they're too damn dangerous.
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- How do you figure? Is this just blind fear?
-
- Three Mile Island realeased as much radiation, during it's operation
- as your average American recieves in a lifetime of X-rays. That's
- a total, not a per-capita, and most of it radiated onto things that
- left no damage at all, like air, or water, or asphalt, or Jane Fonda :-)
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- Chernobyl was simply badly designed. In an effort to make changing
- the fuel rods easier, they built the whole thing with this nifty
- removable cement ceiling. Of course, if the pressure within the
- core was to get too hign for some reason...
-
- Are these the reasons you fear the things made by humans? You judge
- by the hype and mistakes? You must have quite contradictory feelings
- about the Shuttle ;-)
-
- -Tommy Mac
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