On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:02:11 GMT someone who may be "dennis@home"
wrote this:-

wrote in message

This process of disaster, learning and improvement ocurs in all
industries.

Windscale doesn't seem to have learnt much over the decades. They
don't even know precisely what is in some of the ponds, even after
using a submersible (which then became radioactive waste). The
vitrification plants are still not working properly. Add in a bit of
sabotage and falsification of records and it would seem that
incompetence, bad training and shoddy workmanship is still common in
the nuclear "industry".

Its a shame we decided to build PWRs then.
It takes moments for a PWR to go bad while it takes days for an AGR.
I think I know which one is safer.

Indeed, a gas cooled reactor is intrinsically safer, though more
expensive. The only real downside with gas cooled reactors is that
they emit carbon dioxide, though not much.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
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