Re: [Phys-l] Nuclear Power and the Grid

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2011, Sep 11, , at 14:06, David Marx wrote:

> Regulation is fine to a point at which the activity being regulated becomes impossible to continue or 
> becomes too expensive.  We need to recognize that we cannot prevent every possible accident and 
> that some risk is acceptible.  

Sometimes that's good;  shouldn't continue.




> Ask any scientist at a government lab whether they can do their jobs in today's over-regulated 
> environment, where safety has been taken to the extreme.  

I was one (scientist, if a state University's instructional and research labs are govt.) and didn't notice any over regulation -- never heard a complaint.  I'd receive them, as I was the instructional lab's RSO.



> When I visit Argonne National Lab, all I 
> hear from people is that its very difficult to work in the current environment.  It wasn't like this at all 20 
> years ago, when people could do science vitually inhindered and accidents were rare.  Yes, there was 
> safety training, but now it is beyond ridiculous.

Did ANL have an accident that precipitated a change?


> On 11 Sep 2011 at 8:44, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> > On 2011, Sep 11, , at 07:52, John Denker wrote:
> >
> > > This should be an obvious lesson for those who are demanding
> > > "deregulation" in the US ... as if the Deepwater Horizon were not lesson
> > > enough.
> >
> >
> > I'm rather puzzled (Perhaps one of you may inform?).  Tight regulation and inspection reduces the liability of the capitalist enterprise, i.e. socializing any disaster.  Why then do they object?
> >
> > bc
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