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Default Safety of Nuke Power (was: 1950s Chest Freezer

On Feb 28, 9:06Â*am, " wrote:
On Feb 28, 8:18�am, Jim Yanik wrote:





" wrote in news:7d0fd62f-f80a-4664-82fa-
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ok on the spent fuel rods in a pool right next to the
reactor........... non hardened buildings, no heavy concrete steel
reinforced containment.


if a terrorist somehow blew up the building by either smuggling a bomb
onto the grounds or the more likely flying a bomb into the building.
the newest fuel rods will be hot enough to melt down and all the rods,
in a explosion will be a bad day.


unless the bomb is right IN the pool,an explosion is not going to harm the
rods in the belowground pool.


very bad..............


the ower companies should be required to have a plan with funding in
place to handle spent fuel safely.


Once the rods cool enough[in �short a time frame for terrorist
planning],the rods get shipped to Yucca Mtn secure storage site.


those who worked or work for the nuke power industry have a vested
interest in reassuring the public its safe......


All the greater reason to build pebble-bed reactors,no fuel rod problems..
The fuel "pebbles" are extremely durable.


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Jim Yanik
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so how long has work been done on yucca mountain?


Yucca would have been done a long time ago and all the fuel being
temporarily stored at power plants around the country if fear
mongering environmentalists hadn't done everything they could to block
it. Obsructionist tactics that continue to this day. And then the
same bunch are the ones bitching about how unsafe it is for the waste
to be stored temporarily at the power plants. Actually, the
envionmental extremists are quite happy with the arrangement, because
they use the spent fool storage at power plants to fear monger and try
to get them shut down. Tha't what they want and the only thing they
will accept.



how much old fuel
has been moved there? whats the ultimate price tag for yucca and
moving, storing, and monitoring this hopefully forever tomb? who is
paying for all this?


There is a fund that all nuclear power plants have been paying into
for years to pay for yucca. But, in the end, like most things, it's
consumers, that is most of us, that are going to pay for it, one way
or another.




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More fear mongering nonsense. The canisters have been designed and
tested to withstand external explosions and intense fires that rage
for hours.

Nothing is perfect. Imagine someone just came up with the idea of an
airplane today and proposed putting people into them and flying them
around. And they proposed putting 3 airports, within a few miles of
NYC. How much fear can you conjur up with that? Yet, we do it
everyday and it's the safest form of transportation we have.