Re: [Marxism] Paper on Japanese nuclear reactors and earth quakes

[dave.walters@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Joaquin: ?Divide the 1000 year event by 50, and you get that, on
average, a French nuclear power plant will face one of those "freak"
earthquakes every 20 years.?
 
I?m dying here! I bet your wonderful 12 year old son can see what?s wrong with 
this 
math. I love it! Ha!
 
So?seeing as it?s STILL one event in 1,000 years (no matter how many power 
plants 
you have, or how many widgets or French bistros :)?. I couldn?t find much of 
French 
seismic activity, of which there is a lot of but not very large. As the 
Japanese quake proved, 
and if you had read the paper instead of being stopped by your inability to do 
averages 
(no, really, I?m still laughing about that) you?d see that Japanese NPPs have 
stood up 
to a lot worse. They all have settings designed to trip the unit off line (both 
the reactor 
and the turbine-generator) before things start ?splitting open? and causing 
problems.

I don?t live by fear and I wouldn?t guide the worlds energy policy by fear. I 
know that fossil 
fuel is killing NOW (thousands), polluting now, causing huge ecological damage 
right now 
yet that seems to get a pass from you and others. Now, I know you are concerned 
about this 
as any other, I?m only making such a rhetorical statement because the one and 
only base-load 
source of energy that hasn?t actually killed * anyone * in the US (or France) 
is facing demands 
of being shutdown based on the * fear * that something in 1,000 years can kill 
everyone 
everywhere (which it can?t and won?t).
 
I think it?s serious enough that we can deal with the problems of nuclear 
energy, which seem to 
pale in comparison to the thousands that are dying every day because of fossil 
fuel now, and 
how it may effect our future with climate change, which is a lot scarier, to me 
any way, than 
what ?might happen? in 1,000 years.
 
David________________________________________________
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