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To: Jim 0216
All it takes is one freaking meltdown to kill everyone within the affected radius.

Absolutely false. The design basis accident analyses for LWRs (and I have done dozens of them) show that the most likely outcome of a complete failure of reactor cooling is zero fatalities at the plant site, zero fatalities among the general public. And, no, we're talking about Chornobil here. LWR technology is different. There is no positive reactivity feedback in a LWR.

20 posted on 03/12/2011 10:50:46 AM PST by chimera
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To: chimera

OK, well this is something I didn’t know. So you’re saying that a complete meltdown will not kill people? How do LWR’s fix that?


30 posted on 03/12/2011 11:34:55 AM PST by Jim W N
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