🚀 go-pugleaf

On 9 Apr 1997 16:05:21 GMT, "Carl Dean" <cdean99@mindspring.com>
wrote:
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>Japan has the most reason to fear nuclear power, since it was bombed by two
>nuclear weapons.  However, it has warmly embraced nuclear power and is
>fully utilizing it.  If they aren't afraid of it, then why should anyone
>else be?
>
>Carl

Carl - we should be afraid of dangerous situations, like Chernobyl -
the station was constructed in such a way (as, IIRC are all Russian
reactors) that if anything goes wrong the effects are released into
the atmosphere immediately.  There are *much* better ways to build
reactors (I'm particularly partial to the CANDU system since it seems
the safest), and we should retain a level of apprehension that permits
rational use of effective prevention measures.  A certain level of
fear is healthy (one of my usual pitches to CIOs and other clients
about disaster recovery - worry enough to take reasonable preventative
measures, but not so much you're paralyzed).

.... Bruce