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Re: Graphite-Gas reactor are cold war monsters... (4.00 / 5)
See for instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

Even the soviets at their worst never came up with anything so stupid. It remained the greatest (acknowledged) contamination until tchernobyl. Still the second today I think. Although some unacknowledged incidents in US military facilities may have been quite bad in the 40's, and the cumulated releases of the dreadful Sellafield reprocessing plant nearby appears quite large too according to activists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield

Pierre

by Pierre on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 10:01:38 AM EST
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