Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, Three Mile Island did not show that a "properly designed nuclear reactor cannot cause a serious problem to the environment;" it showed that a properly designed reactor is far less likely to melt down than one of those Russian chopshop jobs, and it also showed that we were very, very lucky. On 4/25/06 9:06 PM, "Marc James Small" <msmall@aya.yale.edu> wrote: > At 08:27 PM 4/25/06 -0400, Walt Johnson wrote: > >> I can't help but feel our system of CYA is far superior and >> Three Mile Island comes to mind. Lack luster Russian engineering aside, >> the reactions of our own (edited out in my original post) Christian >> Right salivating over a "commie disaster" is hard to deny. Holier than >> thou always strikes me as the unholiest of all. > > Walt > > I concur that TMI shows that a properly designed nuclear reactor cannot > cause a serious problem to the environment. > > I am not certain why you insist on conflating Christian and Right-Wing -- > many Christians are rather Left-Wing politically, and many Right-Wingers > are agnostic, if that matters a bit. And I do not recall any of the sort > of polemics of the sort you describe when the Chernobyl disaster occurred - > and at that time, I was rather active in what you would probably describe > as "Right-Wing" politics. I do recall a lot of comments from engineers > about the various warnings the West had sent the USSR over the decade or > more prior to the disaster about the dangers they were running. though. > > Marc > > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information