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Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster
schwit1 writes World leaders have fretted for years that terrorists may try to steal one of Pakistan's nuclear bombs and detonate it in a foreign country. But some Karachi residents say the real nuclear nightmare is unfolding here in Pakistan's largest and most volatile city. Of all places to locate a nuclear reactor, they argue, who could possibly make a case for this one — on an earthquake-prone seafront vulnerable to tsunamis and not far from where al-Qaeda militants nearly hijacked a Pakistan navy vessel last fall.
Porkistan is a fucking terrorist state for god sakes !!! There are more terrorost camps then schools in that place !!!
Nooklear power is saaaafe!
...not a bug.
This must be the most moronic article I've read in a long time.
3/4 of the way down the text it says the only relevant piece of information: "Minhaj said concerns about the effect of a tsunami are also overblown because the new reactors are being built on a rock ledge about 39 feet above sea level."
That's 12m above the sea. The tsunami generated by a mag 9.0 earthquake is expected to be between 0.9m and 7m high - so the plant will have 5m margin ABOVE THE WORST CASE.
Shut up everyone, you've been lied to.
The al-Qaeda militants would probably scale a mountain to try and reach this reactor. It really doesn't matter if it's build near a military base or near a Saudi royals palace. It's a target.
What you do however is treat that nuclear plant like a major asset, and have military garrison around it. Deter al-Qaeda, deter Greenpeace, deter crazy assholes in general. Why not deter your own corrupt military officers from trying to sieze you by the balls in the process?
It's being built 20 miles outside Karachi. Describing it as being 'in Karachi' is like describing something in Covington as being 'in New Orleans'.
And for those who don't live in the area, Covington is across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans.
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Of all places to locate a nuclear reactor, they argue, who could possibly make a case for this one
Presumably, the engineers who considered the location and decided it would be safe. Did they make a mistake? Who cares -- journalism!!!
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
is it the town that was featured in COD4?
but some of their loyalties are divided, and in secret
and with so much sectarian hatred, political instability, and poverty in that country, i fear that the most probable scenario for a purposeful nuclear attack in this world (so not accidental, probably plant sabotage) will be in pakistan
i don't think the west has anything to fear. i think india does somewhat. but i think pakistanis have the most to fear by far
there is a lot of bloodlust over there. and not the random yahoo kind, but the organized sectarian kind
i fear for you pakistan
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
is grasping for straws, this might be it. This could be what the U.S gov tries to use to launch its next illegal invasion and murder-spree, on Pakistan, a country the U.S gov has wanted to erase for a long time.
Bin Laden was a CIA asset while fighting to eject the Soviets from Afghanistan.
Bin Laden, as one of 50+ children of the owner of a major Saudi construction firm that profited all through the oil expansion there, was strongly favored in inheriting a disproportionate amount from his father and ended up with over $300 million as a result. Much of this was expended building clinics and schools in the Afghan hinterland. The students of these madrassas were called Taliban, Pashto for "the students".
During the fight to eject the Soviets, Bin Laden was an ally under the usual terms of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". However, once the common enemy is dispatched by two allies-of-convenience, a power vacuum is created in the formerly disputed territory and was filled by Bin Laden and his allies, in part because as major combatants they are best poised, trained and equipped to take advantage of the chaos left by the withdrawal of an occupation force.
So even if Bin Laden was an ally during the Eighties, he was no longer a friend in the Nineties because we had no common enemy. To try to suggest that he was our ally is comparable to saying that the Soviets as our allies in WW II continued to be our allies throughout the Cold War.
After a victory against a common foe, the enemy of your enemy is no longer your friend and quite often does become your enemy.
...or maybe it's the perfect place to build such thing .... mouhahahahaha!
China is building this plant and China has never had a nuclear accident. It has to be safe.
There has already been a nuclear reactor plant in Pakistan Karachi since the 1972, supplied by the Canadian Gov; it's called the KANUPP-I and it's still in operation, but only generating 85MW of power (max power = 140MW), while the new reactor will generate up to 1000MW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi_Nuclear_Power_Complex#KANUPP-I
I mean, come on people, are we seriously still dealing with PWR's here?
Can someone please tell me WHY the fuck we are still dealing with old, 3rd generation, dirty fuel cycles, when we can have much better 4th generation fuel cycles that thwart nuclear proliferation and use a more more plentiful fuel (ie Thorium instead of Uranium)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
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