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> nuclear plant's worst-case scenario is clearly substantially worse If 14-meter tsunami hitting a 70's build nuclear power plant isn't a worst case scenario,

• peterpathname 13y ago
  to me, a worst case scenario is that one or more of the nutcases who leapfrog a weapons program off the back of the materials, technologies, facilities and expertise developed thru their power program, decides to test a bomb. or shake it angrily. or drop it. Can anyone here remember going to war because we though the other crazy guy -might- have a coal bomb? there's more nuclear actors than ever before, and it only takes one of them to have a bad day for all of us to have a bad day.
  • ori_b 13y ago
    Thankfully, the designs that can be used to produce weapons grade material are also the ones that are the least safe. If people opt for the old designs, it will be obvious what their intentions are.
    • peterpathname 13y ago
      the concern is not just about a single power reactor being misused to produce bomb fuel, but about the picewise contribution a nuclear power program makes to the nation's capacity to achieve their weapons ambitions