Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!harvard!bunny!js07 From: js07@bunny.UUCP (Jack Shaio) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: Back to Chernobyl Message-ID: <3825@bunny.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 16:44:23 EDT Article-I.D.: bunny.3825 Posted: Mon Jul 13 16:44:23 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 02:31:41 EDT References: <442@unisoft.UUCP> Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA Lines: 18 Summary: chernobyl article & mistake In article <442@unisoft.UUCP>, jef@unisoft.uucp (Jef Poskanzer) writes: > The 26 June 1987 issue of Science magazine contains an article by > Richard Wilson called "A Visit to Chernobyl". It's quite fascinating. > I've typed in the abstract and some excerpts, and I have a bit of > .... > Commentary: I found this article both enlightening and frightening. > This was the first place I had heard specifics about the reactor's > design instability. It is hard for me to imagine how anyone could > make such a STUPID mistake. And then to find out that there are > 15 more of these guys, and still more in the works... Brrrr. perhaps it is not a question of someone making a stupid mistake, but of being able to report it, in a police state which was trying to export such reactors (to the Phillipines), and whose deputy foreign trade minister was Yuri Brezhnev (son of the other Brezhnev). The real lesson is that a free press plays a role in penalizing those who put such lemons on stream.