[Peace-discuss] Japanese warning

[Morton K. Brussel]

I have long been a member of that U.S. Science Group; it has done useful service and has a useful function, but its position on nuclear power has been negative for a long while using cost as an crucial argument—i.e., they cost too much.  The sentence …scientists said they needed to do more to ensure that future quakes don't risk the kind of reactor impact that Japan is now grappling with… doesn't carry much weight unless one knows which scientists are being quoted. Lyman and UCS has been long antagonistic to nuclear power.  --mkb

On Mar 11, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:

> The massive earthquake that forced the closure of four nuclear power
> plants in Japan has highlighted the grave risk of inadequate back-up
> generators at U.S. facilities, a leading U.S. scientist group said on
> Friday.
> 
> While the U.S. regulator made clear that the national nuclear fleet is
> built to withstand the biggest earthquakes in history, scientists said
> they needed to do more to ensure that future quakes don't risk the
> kind of reactor impact that Japan is now grappling with.
> 
> "We do not believe the safety standards for U.S. nuclear reactors are
> enough to protect the public today," Edwin Lyman, senior scientist,
> global security programs, at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told
> Reuters. The group supports nuclear power as a means to combat global
> warming, but wants tougher safety measures.
> 
> - Reuters: Scientists Say Japan Quake Shows US Nuclear Risk
> http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/technology/8998257/scientists-say-japan-quake-shows-us-nuclear-risk/
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> Given the damage to Japanese nuclear reactors from the earthquake, what do
>> you think would happen to the nuclear reactor down the road in Clinton, IL,
>> if a similar quake should occur along the New Madrid fault?  --CGE
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