The restart of Chernobyl's reactor, a relic of the Soviet era, after not having worked for a couple months because of failures in its different systems, is not a decision that only affects the Ukraine habitants. It involves the whole world, specially Europe. The government of Ukraine justifies the reopening of Chernobyl on the country's economical difficulties and also says that nothing obliges the government to close the nuclear power plant. But everything indicates that Ukraine's aim is to use Chernobyl as blackmail so that the West continues to contribute financially and pay for the construction of two other new nuclear power plants. The argument of the economic problems is real, but something as serious as nuclear contamination is no excuse enough to try to black-mail the west. ...

-- Other Voices (Wondering@Earth.com), March 13, 1999

Answers

I fixed the typos.

Ed

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), March 13, 1999.

Other .... It's spelled nUclear ...Especially ...blacKmail ... and not you seem to have under control, most of the time. Detracts from the article. Good post . Eagle

-- Harold Walker (e999eagle@freewwweb.com), March 13, 1999.

I love it - the world's coming to an end, but at least we'll meet it with the correct punctuation (insert sound of sparks beating head against desk in utter frustration with humanity).

Good post, Other Voices. I don't doubt but that something close to what you've written is going on behind the scenes... witness the Russian statements regarding possible uncontrolled launches if they don't get millions to fix them.

-- sparks (wireless@home.com), March 13, 1999.

From an earlier thread:

"Chernobyl was NOT a nuclear power plant, it was not built for that, it was not designed with that in mind. Chernobyl was designed and built, as all reactors of that type were designed, to produce weapons grade plutonium. With the waste heat from plutonium production they produced power."

Something to think about.
-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), March 14, 1999.

Chernobyl's Number Four plant was the one that melted down - not to alarm you or anything, but the others on site (and many others of identical design elsewhere) have been operating for a while.

So Ed - how's come you don't fix my typo's?

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), March 14, 1999.