True, the loss of these boats was not due to a reactor problem, none the less there are two reactors on the bottom of the ocean.
Along with more than a few nukes.
True, the loss of these boats was not due to a reactor problem, none the less there are two reactors on the bottom of the ocean.
Because people are no longer dying of scurvy, measles, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, rubella, diphtheria, poor refrigeration, poor industrial safety practices, and so on, and are now living long enough to be old enough to get cancer in the first place.People wonder why cancer rates have escilated over the past 100 years?
American Minerals, Inc there in Deming, perhaps? There's also Parkview Metal Products in Las Cruces, about 60 miles away from you which according to scorecard.org released 27,060 pounds of recognized human carcinogen (trichloroethylene) in 2002. There's also Foamex, Inc. in Santa Teresa, about 30 miles south of Las Cruces.I live in Deming N.M. and you would not believe the rate of skin cancers on dogs that are maintained out side here. Trinity? Natural? We use to mine and have recently started to again Radium!
It is a little known fact that Every pond of carbon released in burning coal contains a large number of radioactive isotopes.
An important detail to remember about that accident is that it was caused by a basic design flaw. The SL-1 was a research reactor in the early days of nuclear power. It's fatal flaw was that the reactor would go critical if the central control rod was removed, even if the other control rods were in the full down position. The control rods in the reactor had a habit of sticking. So when they tried to unstick the central control rod and it finally let go, it was raised up far enough for the reactor to instantly go critical.There was one accident in an Army reactor, the SL-1. A control rod was pulled out, as part of the startup procedure, 50cm when 40cm would have been enough to make the reactor critical. The power output of the reactor went to 20,000 megawatts in about 0.01 seconds, melted the fuel, and converted the moderating water to steam, which then slammed a plug of water up into the top of the containment vessel hard enough to bounce the entire vessel about 10 feet into the air.
Even worse is what it could do to a companies stock value. I own Xcel Energy stock and several years ago it was said that there might be serious problems with the reactors the company owned. The stock went from $20 per share to about $5 per share in a very short period of time. It took a long time for the stock to regain its value.That same incentive is there in the civilian industry. A minor violation (leave a firedoor open for a few minutes) can net a five figure monetary penalty from the NRC. Anything major and your plant gets shut down.
I don't know that the power companies are patting their feet to build nuclear plants.
TVA brought Browns Ferry online last year, and is looking at finishing Watts Bar by 2013.
I don't know how much of the lapse in construction of new nuclear power plants is licensing and how much is the power companies not pushing it.