Thread: Seriousness Will more nuclear power plants be built?
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Old 04-07-2009, 07:16 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by taosaur View Post
The risks of fission plants seem like a decent trade-off for the certain damage done by coal, but I'm made a little nervous by the proximity of a plant that allowed a football-sized hole to corrode through their concrete lid, leaving 1/8" of bulging steel between me and a pressurized jet of irradiated vapor. Best anyone can tell, management was friendly with the inspectors and enforced a "don't ask, don't tell" maintenance policy internally.
Jeez, that makes you feel safe. This is slightly off topic but this reminds me of a situation in my township that was discovered last year. At the local waste treatment plant a valve had gone faulty and instead of having it repaired the local administrator (manager? whatever his title was) simply allowed all the raw sewage to be dumped into the Delaware river for 2 years. Explain to me how no inspectors ever picked that up?

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