> Second, incompetence: because each plant has such enormous energy
> content,staff incompetence, even at reactors billed as inherently
> safe, can lead to
> much more serious disasters than from other energy sources. The
> two accidents
> (Chernobyl and Three Mile Island) of the earlier nuclear age could
> multiply a
> hundredfold in the scaled up age.
The latest issue of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has the following article:
-Chernobyl: Hardly the last word by Michael Flynn http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=ma06flynn March/April 2006 pp. 14-16 (vol 62, no. 02) © 2006 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin's special issue on Chernobyl is available at http://www.thebulletin.org/past_issues/042_007.htm
Ulhas