Taking care of our inheritance.

[Arnobius]

It was also an extraordinarily bad design. For a start, the reactor had no containment building, which would have prevented most of the radiation from escaping into the environment. The RMBK design also suffers from a number of other potential flaws, a major one is the lack of dynamic stability. In most western reactors, a higher reactor temperature drives down the output power level, which in turn brings down the temperature. This was not the case in Chernobyl-style reactors, which mean they are more susceptible to run-away reactions. Also unlike western reactors, the RMBK design employs a moderator that is potentially combustible (graphite), and has limited safety systems, especially for dealing with a loss-of-coolant accident.

That sounds like what I read too.

[Hoshika]

Yeah, if I sound anti-environmentalist, it's because my experience with radical environmentalists has been bad, using scare tactics and personal attacks and not rational arguments. You Christian Environmentalists seem to be different and I'm willing to give you a fair hearing though, and some of it I can agree with.

With Nukes, the issue I findf is that for the most part the US ones are very safe. Three Mile Island really wasn't a disaster at all, and since then plants were built safer. France and Japan use nuclear for over 50% of their plants-- and there are no reports

With Cherynobyl, it was a case of gross negligence, not an accident as I recall.

I'll get off my soap box now. Hope this didn't come out sounding rude. I didn't mean for it to

You call that a rant? Oh my dear Heretic I have much to teach you!

I don't know I'd have to have hardcore proof... but me I just have a bit of a phoebia with anything radio active. I wasn't sure if this plant by a house I visited was nuclear or not and I got all nervious.

Ah, you all that aren't paranoid freaks need to help us who here. Just don't drag us into a nuclear plant to do it... unless you want to see what human looks like when they melt down. ....sigh.

[Yojimbo]

You call that a rant? Oh my dear Heretic I have much to teach you!

I don't know I'd have to have hardcore proof... but me I just have a bit of a phoebia with anything radio active. I wasn't sure if this plant by a house I visited was nuclear or not and I got all nervious.

Ah, you all that aren't paranoid freaks need to help us who here. Just don't drag us into a nuclear plant to do it... unless you want to see what human looks like when they melt down. ....sigh.

Well then ya better not step outside into sunlight or ya better not use a microwave.

[Mithrandir]

Now now. The problem with Nuke energy is mainly one of ignorance. More radiation comes out of a single coal plant during it's life than all the nuke power radiation leak disasters in history.

http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html