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... Technological Fix Science cannot predict exactly the probability of a serious accident in a light-water reactor, or the likelihood that a radioactive waste canister in a depository will dissolve and release radioactivity to the environment. Can one design reactors or waste cans for which the probability of such occurrences is zero or at least which depend, for the prevention of such mishaps, on immutable laws of nature that can never fail, rather than on the incompletely reliable intervention of electromechanical devices?
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