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Environment & Energy

FBaggins

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1. What incredbible nonsense

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed May 23, 2012, 10:04 PM

May 2012

Oh yes... all reactors are identical and all are equally prone to the same dangers. Who cares about design differences... it says "reactor" on the label, right? If a new design comes out that's 1/10th as likely to suffer a meltdown... it doesn't matter. It's a reactor.

So all we have to do is take the total number of reactors in operation times the number of years they've operated... then divide by the number of accidents. Presto! We know how often accidents will happen in the future!

Think of all the money we could save by getting rid of the NHTSA? Why rate cars on crashworthyness or set insurance rates by driving record? We know how many cars have existed and how many fatal accidents there are per mile driven... the chances of a fatal accident are therefore already known.

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Severe Nuclear Reactor Accidents Likely Every 10 to 20 Years - New Max Planck Institute Study [View all] bananas May 2012 OP

What incredbible nonsense FBaggins May 2012 #1

I think the scientists considered what you said. caseymoz May 2012 #4

Think again. FBaggins May 2012 #8

I went through the inherent design flaws caseymoz May 2012 #17

I'm sorry, but you've just admitted to be true that which I claimed. FBaggins May 2012 #18

And your interpretation of what I wrote is false caseymoz May 2012 #27

While other reactor designs fail for other reasons OKIsItJustMe May 2012 #21

You've raised a good point. FBaggins May 2012 #22

The root cause of inadequate training is…hubris OKIsItJustMe May 2012 #24

The people at the Max Planck Institute are incredible idiots? intaglio May 2012 #6

I don't think they're idiots... FBaggins May 2012 #9

Would you mind giving a proper citation for the sections you are referring to? kristopher May 2012 #10

Try reading what you respond to. FBaggins May 2012 #11

I had already read the paper before the OP was posted. kristopher May 2012 #14

The you are without excuse. FBaggins May 2012 #15

Here is what the authors say kristopher May 2012 #19

You've confused unrelated portions of the piece. FBaggins May 2012 #20

So what you are saying is that MPI is being deliberately misleading? intaglio May 2012 #12

They could be... or it could be the reporting. FBaggins May 2012 #16

As I said, conspiracy theory intaglio May 2012 #23

Common factor is One_Life_To_Give May 2012 #25

Well you certainly won't catch me bad-mouthing Rickover FBaggins May 2012 #26

It's not nonsense, it was even used in MIT's 2003 report "The Future of Nuclear Power" bananas May 2012 #28

If that's the case, why aren't they happening? JayhawkSD May 2012 #2

Here is the full list kristopher May 2012 #3

They are happening. In fact, there are three happening right now. bananas May 2012 #5

Exactly. And none of the world's plants are getting younger. The apologetics for the nuclear gang, villager May 2012 #7

I think this is the key to their analysis caraher May 2012 #13