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dpb

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On Feb 27, 10:16�am, dpb wrote:
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people who lived around chernobyl werent concerned either.......
And Chernobyl was a _completely_ different reactor design than any in
the US (or elsewhere, for that matter) without any containment.

That Chernobyl was a disaster is true but it has no relevance to
light-water reactors.

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the US nearly had its chernobyl, 3 mile island. some roids melted, it
was a close thing....

No, it is not possible to do a Chernobyl w/ a LWR. Do you understand
the difference in reactor designs?

plus a meltdown like situation can occur at any time, with the spent
fuel rods in unhardened buildings, ...

Again, no -- after the spent fuel assemblies are removed and been in
storage for a while they do not have enough self-generated heat to
require forced cooling. A very large percentage of the fuel in storage
at various facilities in the US has been out of the reactor for so long
it could be in open air and still not be a thermal problem. Some
biological shielding is, of course, still required and that is actually
as much of the purpose of the pool water as is cooling.

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