I find that most reassurring. :roll:

That's as maybe, but fission uses dangerous ingredients, whatever the design of reactor, and thus should something go wrong, the consequences are problematic.

Personally, I think in the right hands and with the right resources, fission reactors have an aceptable risk. I worry more about the less developed countries, who have less resources available and where life is cheap (consider Bhopal).

Shame the governernment pulled the funding into fusion. Kind of shooting ourselves in the foot there, wouldn't you say?

There have been a lot of design advances including fail-safe style pebble bed reactors
seee here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor

So its not all bad.
Dan

That's an interesting read Dan - thanks.

I think a lot of people have concerns because of the current world climate, where terrorists have threatened nuclear reactors.
Should a plane hit a reactor, surely however safe the reactor design, radioactivity will be spread about. Sure, nothing like as much as Chernobyl as the force of a plane hitting a reactor would be less than the explosion in Chernobyl, but pollution none the less.

What about putting hoddies onto treadmills?

The government at the time probably managed to save a fiver by pulling the funding, I'm sure they had our best interests at heart :roll:

Bizarely, this has been tested. Aircraft have been crashed into the kind of concrete structure reactors are built in, and it barely left a mark.

:notworthy: I'll put the first application form in for the role of keeping the the new 'hoodie' plants working :smt064

Fine.. ignore me. I'll work out how to harness lightning and will have the key to the world's power problems and I'LL MAKE YOU ALL PAY....

Muahahah... ahahahahah... AHAHAHAHAHAH...



:lol: :D
(isn't it about time someone started 'thinking outside the box'?) :P ;)

Well, I was wondering about harnessing power from crematoriums (I reckon that should my mate Dave die, he could power a smallish village for some time), but I thought the world may not be ready for that suggestion yet... :-)

:lol::lol::lol:

Hmm... harnessing the power of methane could also have potential...