Comments on: Thirty years after Harrisburg, time to let go. http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2009/03/28/thirty-years-after-harrisburg-time-to-let-go/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Michael http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2009/03/28/thirty-years-after-harrisburg-time-to-let-go/comment-page-1/#comment-4266 Michael Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:59:21 +0000 http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/?p=625#comment-4266 I agree Joffan... there is a lot of reverse-engineering out there where they try to build a foundation to hold up their anti-nuclear stance. It's sad to see people lose focus and forget why they were opposed in the first place, and examining the present conditions. Opinion matters first... arguments, a distant second. That's the complete wrong way to go about it. You look at the arguments, then form your opinions. I agree Joffan... there is a lot of reverse-engineering out there where they try to build a foundation to hold up their anti-nuclear stance. It's sad to see people lose focus and forget why they were opposed in the first place, and examining the present conditions. Opinion matters first... arguments, a distant second. That's the complete wrong way to go about it. You look at the arguments, then form your opinions.

]]> By: Joffan http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2009/03/28/thirty-years-after-harrisburg-time-to-let-go/comment-page-1/#comment-4264 Joffan Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:50:14 +0000 http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/?p=625#comment-4264 Thanks Michael. In order to maintain the level of fear, anti-nukes have taken to denying reality and fabricating stories about the Three-Mile Island incident. They really,really want there to have been deaths and suffering, so they invent them. It's sad in a way, but mostly, it's just extremely irritating. One common factor between TMI and Chernobyl: the operators overrode the automatic safety systems. In TMI it was the emergency cooling pumps after the scram; in Chernobyl it was practically everything, as far as I can gather, in order to run their supremely ironic safety test. Thanks Michael.

In order to maintain the level of fear, anti-nukes have taken to denying reality and fabricating stories about the Three-Mile Island incident. They really,really want there to have been deaths and suffering, so they invent them. It's sad in a way, but mostly, it's just extremely irritating.

One common factor between TMI and Chernobyl: the operators overrode the automatic safety systems. In TMI it was the emergency cooling pumps after the scram; in Chernobyl it was practically everything, as far as I can gather, in order to run their supremely ironic safety test.

]]> By: Michael http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2009/03/28/thirty-years-after-harrisburg-time-to-let-go/comment-page-1/#comment-2919 Michael Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:48:51 +0000 http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/?p=625#comment-2919 And your point is what? The Soviet RBMK-reactors were well known to be of an unsafe design. Building reactors with that kind of idiotically high positive feedback coefficient was unthinkable in the rest of the world already before the accident. That's why there are almost no graphite moderated, lightwater cooled reactors using natural uranium as fuel apart from the 17 RBMK's that were constructed. Add to that the fact that the Soviets did virtually <b>everything</b> wrong with this reactor... and you get a mode of accident that is physically impossible in a LWR/PWR. So what's your point? And your point is what?

The Soviet RBMK-reactors were well known to be of an unsafe design. Building reactors with that kind of idiotically high positive feedback coefficient was unthinkable in the rest of the world already before the accident. That's why there are almost no graphite moderated, lightwater cooled reactors using natural uranium as fuel apart from the 17 RBMK's that were constructed. Add to that the fact that the Soviets did virtually everything wrong with this reactor... and you get a mode of accident that is physically impossible in a LWR/PWR.

So what's your point?

]]> By: Michael http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2009/03/28/thirty-years-after-harrisburg-time-to-let-go/comment-page-1/#comment-2918 Michael Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:36:41 +0000 http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/?p=625#comment-2918 Nuclear power will hardly make us independent. The safety of nuclear power rest on - among other things - international cooperation. If anything, nuclear power will tie tighter knots between nations. Which I think is good. :) Nuclear power will hardly make us independent. The safety of nuclear power rest on - among other things - international cooperation. If anything, nuclear power will tie tighter knots between nations.

Which I think is good. :)

]]> By: Mikael http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2009/03/28/thirty-years-after-harrisburg-time-to-let-go/comment-page-1/#comment-2915 Mikael Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:38:49 +0000 http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/?p=625#comment-2915 Tjernobyl! Tjernobyl!

]]> By: rightdemocrat http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2009/03/28/thirty-years-after-harrisburg-time-to-let-go/comment-page-1/#comment-2852 rightdemocrat Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:33:56 +0000 http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/?p=625#comment-2852 I agree. We need to make an investment in energy independence and expand nuclear power I agree. We need to make an investment in energy independence and expand nuclear power

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