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JERRY POURNELLE on Japanese Reactors and the Worst Case. Lots of interesting stuff, plus this: ?Th?

By Glenn Reynolds

JERRY POURNELLE on Japanese Reactors and the Worst Case. Lots of interesting stuff, plus this: “The important lesson from Japan is that we took obsolete reactors with old designs and safety features, and subjected them to a 9.0 quake and a very large tsunami, and the damage to the planet is an unfortunate but hardly decisive event. It is now time to stop worrying about this mess until things settle and we can see precisely what we have learned, and factor that into the next generation designs. Note that almost everywhere in the world we are building reactors with much better design and far better safety features than those being destroyed now. Concentration on how awful is the nuclear mess takes our attention off the economic and human disasters from the earthquake and tsunami.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).