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Originally Posted by Jim Richards
Let's be fair...the Nuke industry wasn't without fault. Money has a way of making people cut corners. We're seeing this right now with oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. The media looks for anything they can exploit to turn a profit. Same with Hollywood, although they have some "true believers," too. Confidence building can happen if taken in modest steps, especially if framed in the context of other eco-disasters (Gulf of Mexico Oil) or national security (ME/Venezuela Oil). The Nuke industry needs to get their butts in gear and turn public opinion around. So far, all I hear are crickets chirping.
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The failure in the nuclear industry most similar to the BP situation, was Chernobyl. That can't happen here. Chernobyl had no containment facility and was a carbon moderated reactor with positive thermal feedback. A very unsafe design. It even used wood for part of the structure! And while the design problems were bad, the people running it were the real problem.