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Originally Posted by Aether
Ok, ok, you got me here. Though, it is still a very far cry from "their current nuclear power plant problems"
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Well I never said all of the Russian nuclear power plants are exploding tomorrow. (And I sure hope they don't...)
I just stated that there are different problems related to the nuclear facilities in Russia. This security issue, financing problems, the Mayak reprocessing facility, the extension of the LNPP reactors' lifetime past their designed one and the Seversk situation:
"The continued operation of two industrial reactors at Seversk is fraught with the danger of "an accident of the Chernobyl type" to the Tomsk region, said Yuri Vishnevsky, head of Gosatomnadzor, at a news conference in Moscow on July 13."
http://www.bellona.no/en/internation...ersk/8532.html
I know the news is old (and moldy ;) ) but to my knowledge there is still activity in Seversk. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I also realise that there are many nuclear power plants in Russia and most of them are probably working properly. But any little problem with one facility is one problem too many to my liking.
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Phunkie, nothing in Russia is properly financed. Never has been. Lack of proper financing is our national engine of progress (along with lazyness)
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So I've heard...
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Anyhow, while you look for the slightest possiblity that something dreadful might or might not happen in Russia, real accidents occur elsewhere.
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I'm not really looking that hard for the possibility. I wouldn't have gone into this issue so extensively if you hadn't dragged me. ;)
And I know that there are nuclear related problems elsewhere, I'm just not as concerned about them as the ones taking place in Russia since we're Russia's little neighbour.