Re: how much masss is lost in an A-bomb explosion

Phil Weldon wrote:

It is interesting to hear a description of your experiences. For a while I worked at nuclear power plants, analyzing spent fuel elements in holding pools, looking for damage and other anomalies. It really changed my view of nuclear power plant safety. It all depends on management. At some plants, I would be willing to eat off the floor. At others, I wouldn't have trusted the management to run a solar cell power plant. In my opinion, a big part of the US nuclear sub fleet should be decomissioned (as will probably happen), and the navy personel freed up given responsibility for civilian nuclar power plants (though there might be a lot of differences because civilian power plants produce 20 times the power of a sub power, the navy seems to have had a much better safety record in much more stressful environments.)

The only reason the Navy has a clean track record when it comes to Nuclear Power, is that we learn from everyone elses mistakes (esspecialy the Russians) and HIGHLY train all "Nukes". We are trained to the point where we dont press a button or flip a switch just to "see what it does" because (even though we may have not seen it used before) we already know what it does. The sad part is, the Navy crammed about 6 years worth of a Nuclear Engineering degree into our skulls in less than 2 years.
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