What you say is true, but you missed the point of the first message: OTHER countries are NOT up to the standard that a US plant is. We could practically have a full-on melt-down in a plant and not know it.
Russia, however has already proven that to be false for them. And that was after they disabled one safety. What happens when Russia/Bolivia/Bum-Fuck Egypt loses all their safety systems. Third world countries can't always afford the physical barrier.
Your condescending and extremely insulting "PhD in nuclear engineering" attitude doesn't help either. You have to admit that when it comes to common knowledge and common sense, Americans are MORONS. You can tell the masses m&m's will kill them and sooner or later, everyone will be without the candy that melts in your mouth. If, instead of insulting people who don't know for sure, you politely explained that a 747 at 500mph couldn't knock down a nuke reactor, maybe people would learn and not be the paranoid freaks they are.
I can understand your frustrations though. People don't seem to understand that anything in this country that poses a threat is severely regulated and has triple redundancy in the safety systems. (I think I heard that a US plant has three times the safety systems as those in France.)
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What you say is true, but you missed the point of the first message: OTHER countries are NOT up to the standard that a US plant is. We could practically have a full-on melt-down in a plant and not know it.
Russia, however has already proven that to be false for them. And that was after they disabled one safety. What happens when Russia/Bolivia/Bum-Fuck Egypt loses all their safety systems. Third world countries can't always afford the physical barrier.
Your condescending and extremely insulting "PhD in nuclear engineering" attitude doesn't help either. You have to admit that when it comes to common knowledge and common sense, Americans are MORONS. You can tell the masses m&m's will kill them and sooner or later, everyone will be without the candy that melts in your mouth. If, instead of insulting people who don't know for sure, you politely explained that a 747 at 500mph couldn't knock down a nuke reactor, maybe people would learn and not be the paranoid freaks they are.
I can understand your frustrations though. People don't seem to understand that anything in this country that poses a threat is severely regulated and has triple redundancy in the safety systems. (I think I heard that a US plant has three times the safety systems as those in France.)