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This is absolute ignorant non-sense. Edit: I designed the Feedwater Control System for the Lungmen Nuclear power stations going up in Taiwan. Edit2: Reply to

by dmfdmf 18y ago

This is absolute ignorant non-sense. Edit: I designed the Feedwater Control System for the Lungmen Nuclear power stations going up in Taiwan. Edit2: Reply to jibiki below; Yes, no containment was the absurd comment. I don't know the details but I can guess the builders strengthened the containment building to appease the eviros - it was probably completely unnecessary and only raised the costs. The enviros and the lefties have gotten away with such "stories" for years but now thanks to the internet, the truth shall set us free! See Clay Shirky on Thinking the Unthinkable.

jibiki 18y ago
It seems to be a popular story. From: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/27/three_mile_island_30th_anniversary_of http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/27/three_mile_island_30th... "I want to mention that the reactor containment at Three Mile Island was actually thicker than most others, because citizen action, prior to the construction of the plant, demanded a thicker containment, because the Three Mile Island Unit 2 is right in the flight path of the Harrisburg Airport."--Harvey Wasserman (Of course, nobody was ever planning to build it without a containment... I hope?)
lukifer 18y ago
> the enviros and the lefties Please don't lump us all together like that; this enviro-leftie is very pro-nuclear. Following political ideology blindly has never been limited to any particular viewpoint.
- llimllib 18y ago
  just because an exception exists doesn't mean that it was an unreasonable statement.
  - lukifer 18y ago
    A single exception, no. But environmentalism takes a lot of forms: Greenpeace hippies, Sierra Club hunters and naturalists, and humanists interested in long-term sustainability (which is where I fall). Though there's still a strong residual echo of the (understandable) knee-jerk reaction to nuclear from the 70s, there are now many environmentalists who support nuclear as a lesser evil compared to coal. Apologies for having an easily-struck nerve, re: implied "All X are Y" statements. :)

by dmfdmf 18y ago

jibiki 18y ago

It seems to be a popular story. From: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/27/three_mile_island_30th_anniversary_of http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/27/three_mile_island_30th... "I want to mention that the reactor containment at Three Mile Island was actually thicker than most others, because citizen action, prior to the construction of the plant, demanded a thicker containment, because the Three Mile Island Unit 2 is right in the flight path of the Harrisburg Airport."--Harvey Wasserman (Of course, nobody was ever planning to build it without a containment... I hope?)

lukifer 18y ago

> the enviros and the lefties Please don't lump us all together like that; this enviro-leftie is very pro-nuclear. Following political ideology blindly has never been limited to any particular viewpoint.

llimllib 18y ago
just because an exception exists doesn't mean that it was an unreasonable statement.
- lukifer 18y ago
  A single exception, no. But environmentalism takes a lot of forms: Greenpeace hippies, Sierra Club hunters and naturalists, and humanists interested in long-term sustainability (which is where I fall). Though there's still a strong residual echo of the (understandable) knee-jerk reaction to nuclear from the 70s, there are now many environmentalists who support nuclear as a lesser evil compared to coal. Apologies for having an easily-struck nerve, re: implied "All X are Y" statements. :)