Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada)

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> It is a wrong question. The correct one is: what is the expected
> damage per megawatt (mean + dispersion). If you compare the answers
> for all sorts of plants, you will probably see that Robert is right.

I'm going to try to stop posting on this subject, but...

With a BWR, AGR, or PWR nuclear power plant the expected number of 
deaths per quad is negative.  (Anyone who wants to argue against LMFBRs 
and in favor of MSRs as breeder reactors will get no arguments from me.)
With a coal buring power plant, the expected number of deaths  from the 
normal operation of the plant--excluding disasters--is too high for me 
to stomach.  Every time I look at this data and factor in the threat of 
global warming, I am tempted to do the human race a favor and go destroy 
coal buring power plants.  (But it wouldn't work.  What is needed is 
education.)

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                                           Robert I. Eachus

100% Ada, no bugs--the only way to create software.