Re: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

> I think you are correct in that. The only thing I would add is that the
> design of the Fukushima plant was very old, and that modern designs are
> even safer.

Um, like the german SNR-300 design? Yup, the first reactor with a core
catcher! Which was, of course, dismantled. Apparently, there's only
one things the "greens" fear more than an unsafe reactor - and that's
a safer one.

Funny quote from a politician who opposed the SNR-300: "If we had
such technology, we'd have to export it, too.". That wouldn't have
helped Fukushima; that was a 1960s design, while the SR-300 was a
1970s design, which was being upgraded though the 1980s.


And now something completely different (warning: machine
translation!):
http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planet-wissen.de%2Fnatur_technik%2Fenergie%2Ferdoel%2Finterview.jsp

Yup, oil production is not as harmless as nuclear bomb tests.

- Klaus



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