LSMFT wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
On 3/19/2010 8:37 AM, LSMFT wrote:
So instead of building reactors, why isn't Iran building petroleum
refineries?
That would reduce people's fears, remove Iran's reliance on others
to refine their crude oil, and since they could now export finished
petroleum products as well as crude oil and have plenty of
petroleum products to use for internal needs at lower cost, make
the whole country more profitable.

Pat

Crude pollutes. They want to reduce C02. And why not?

Lord knows a Russian reactor has never polluted anything. ;-)

Pat


That was a mismanagement problem, not a reactor problem.

Yes and no. A reactor better designed (such as having an actual containment
building) almost certainly would not have released nearly the amount of
radiation Chernobyl did.

But yes, from the perspective of, "let's do this stupid experiment and see
what happens" it was a management problem.


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