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In MY universe, in living memory a power reactor melted and burned near Chernobyl in the Ukraine and rendered large sections of the Ukraine AND nearby Belarus uninhabitable--for the next three centuries to ten millenia, depending on which nuclear decay model you use--with ongoing problems of immune deficiency in children (this is fatal) not to mention cancer and birth defects in the regions that are still inhabited.  

Did that not happen in YOUR universe?  

I am so happy for you.  

The Fates are kind.

by Gaianne on Wed Jun 28th, 2006 at 02:55:10 AM EST
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Gaianne, you will note I gave Starvid an out earlier by saying I allowed him to separate the reactor-year and accident statistics by reactor class. He can always sweep Chernobyl under the "evil RBMK" rug. But I want to see him do that explicitly, and substantiate that other reactor desings have whatever it is that their reactor-year and accident statistics are.

By the way, with only 12,000 reactor-years of civilian use and a similar amount of military use you can't justify a figure of one accident per 100,000 reactor years. I should calculate proper confidence intervals for this.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 28th, 2006 at 06:35:50 AM EST
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