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I think we are talking about pretty much the same probabilities. How much would it cost anyway? One accident in 100.000 reactor years, and only one in a hundred of those penetrating the containment. That's one penetrating accident in 10.000.000 reactor years. Even if the accident creates 1 trillion euros of damages that's a yearly cost of 100.000 euros, nothing really.
I want to see how you come up with those figures. You sound like NASA management claiming that one could fly a shuttle every day for 300 years and expect one accident on average. Suggested reading: Professor Feynman goes to Washington, appendix to What do you care what other people think?

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 27th, 2006 at 06:14:26 PM EST
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