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"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

we are about to see a resurgence of nuke plants, i wonder
what troubles that will cause?

About the same amount of trouble they have EVER caused
in this country: ZILCH

Three Mile ISland...

TMI-2 was virtually a non-accident: A small volume of irradiated steam was
released to the atmosphere. There was no injury to any thing or any one.

It's all about timing, folks...

March 16, 1979 - The China Syndrome starring Hanoi Jane
and Jack Lemmon opens in theaters.

March 28, 1979 - Three Mile Island Unit 2 incident

April 26, 1986 - Chernobyl #4 disaster

"Slightly" different containment philosophy, too. U.S. reactors are housed in
containment structures consisting of 3-4-foot-thick, steel reinforced concrete
able to withstand the direct impact of a Boeing 727.

The Soviet Union's idea of containment at Chernobyl (and others to this day)
is the equivalent of a metal-sided pole shed.

TMI-2 "belched" some bad steam.

Chernobyl-4 exploded, melted-down and killed virtually everyone that worked on
the subsequent job of encasing the core in concrete. The direct fallout
"nuked" a nearby, evacuated city. It is still abandoned but barely "hot".
*Normal* wildlife and flora flourish there and have for years.

Kudos to George W. Bush to be the first President since the 1970s to have the
guts to actually call for more nukes. We can (and should) build more nuke
plants.
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JR