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This looks, for now, as a minor incident with the regulatory authority taking proper action to ensure that no risk, however minor, can further follow. This sounds like what you do when a truck with chemicals has an accident; it would be nice if the same were done for all industries and, more to the point with respect to water supplies, with all agro-industrial facilities.

I fail to see how this is an indictment of either the nuclear industry or the French regulators.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 07:22:10 AM EST
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Oh, I'm not denying that their response was as good as might be expected. And I'm relieved to hear that the incident was minor.

However, it wouldn't have to be much worse to become a major problem, one where a government would have difficulty putting the jhin back in the back. We know that, as the Finnish can agree, even with the best will in the world, governments cannot enusre that things are as they should be.

And when nuclear goes wrong, it is catastrophic.

And just cos the government pays, it still doesn't mean that dismantling and making safe is effectively costed into the current price of the electricity. Nasty legacy to leave for a civilisation that will probably be struggling with the post-oil mess we bequeath it.

So i'm just voincing my skepticism about the safety and economics.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 08:49:04 AM EST
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I'm not sure about the meaning of "minor". As I quoted upthread, the unspecified release of radioactivity must have been to the scale of what was allowed for the plant for a century.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 08:59:30 AM EST
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