I've spent most of my life downwind from Hanford. That's east of it; "downstream" is to the west. Tell me all about the safeguards. But don't eat fish from the Columbia River. There have been leaks every once in a while throughout all that time, some of them leaked on purpose by Our Own Government.

The basic form of Murphy's Law "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong," isn't a mildly humorous statement, it's a factual statement about the laws of probability.

And remember "Anything that's fail-safe fails by failing to fail safely." and there's some pretty long half-lives out there.

clint