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What if there's a fire?
by iaw 7y ago
What if there's a fire?
- logfromblammo 7y agoKeep the firefighters out. Let it burn. Evacuate a radius plus the downwind plume. Test for radiation before allowing people back in. What if the whole facility is broken down and packed into drums, and the truck shipping some of them overturns on the highway? The known flaw has a simple, well-known workaround. It's "don't do that". Attempting a fix has the potential to introduce additional unknown flaws. The fact that France is doing a site cleaning now is perhaps a testament to the dwindling size of their low-level nuclear waste site cleaning backlog? AFAIK, their Hague processing facility only uses half its capacity on waste from their ~95 energy reactors, and takes waste from other countries to pick up some of the slack. A cleanup like this can keep it operating without having to mothball excess capacity.