Everytime one of these reactors has a problem we hear the refrain:
- "oh that's an old/foreign/crap design which noone makes anymore"
- "the people running the reactor are poor/corrupt/stupid/culturally
different"
- "and this would never happen to any of our other reactors"
the cyn
Jochen and everybody, hi,
I don't know if it has already been covered on this thread, and I
understand that the following comment is not central to the main
theme. But to group Chernobyl with other reactor failures has one
element that is potentially problematic. Chernobyl was a carbon-
I am not sure what is more dangerous for the
environment, oil spills or radiation leaks, but
the NIMBY syndrome is not uncommon ;-)
I guess the two main problems are
a) catatrophic accidents like Chernobyl and
Fukushima can not be ruled out completely
b) there is no final storage place or ulti
