[ RadSafe ] Plant

[davidhelton1 at bellsouth.net]

> 
> From: "David Helton" Davidhelton1 at bellsouth.net
> Date: 2007/21/19 
> To: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>, 
> "ROY HERREN" <royherren2005 at yahoo.com>, <efforrer at aol.com>, 
> <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear Power Plants

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Generating_Station

The 94MWe prototype fast breeder reactor Fermi 1 unit operated at the site from 
1963 to 1972. On October 5, 1966 Fermi 1 suffered a partial nuclear meltdown. 
No radiation was released off-site, and no one was injured. The accident was 
attributed to a piece of zirconium that obstructed a flow-guide in the sodium 
cooling system. Two of the 105 fuel assemblies melted during the incident, but 
no contamination was recorded outside the containment vessel. Fermi 1 continued 
to operate until September 22, 1972; however, it was not officially 
decommissioned until December 31, 1975. Designs for a successor plant were soon 
submitted.> .
> 
I lived in Monroe MI when the plant started .  ( They gave a penny that was sent through the core back then as a publicity method to visitors.).
> 
> From: "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan at nmcco.com>
> Date: 2007/04/19 Thu AM 10:46:47 EST
> To: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>, 
> 	"ROY HERREN" <royherren2005 at yahoo.com>,  <efforrer at aol.com>, 
> 	<radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Wind Farms
> 
> A great percentage of industries have the potential to impact the
> environment in a negative manner. Some take the high road and do the
> right thing regardless of its impact on their respective bottom lines.
> Others take the low road and do anything they can get away with in order
> to preserve their profit margin. I find it to be unfortunate that the
> Nuclear Industry is such a sought-after target when our environmental
> impact is so small when held up next to the majority of other
> industries. The concentration seems to be on the extremely remote
> possibility of a catastrophic event rather than the constant impact
> others have due to day-to-day operation.
> 
> Floyd W.Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
> Sr. Analyst
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:29 AM
> To: Flanigan, Floyd; ROY HERREN; efforrer at aol.com; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Wind Farms
> 
> Well, I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. Nuclear power
> plants were not even planned for.  Or even dreamed of.
> 
> What industries are you thinking of?  "In the
> nineteenth century, New Jersey cities led the nation
> into the Industrial Revolution and . . ."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Jersey 
> There were leather tanneries, smelters, oil and
> chemical refineries, etc.  You name a hazardous
> chemical, we probably made or used it.  The area has a
> number of seaports.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_of_New_York_and_New_Jersey#S
> eaports
> Conviently, the Staten Island dump was close by.
> http://www.albany.edu/%7Ejc5547/isp361/final/dump.html
> 
> Regarding nuclear we did have the nuclear armed Nike
> Hercules missiles stationed in the southern part of
> the state. 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike-Hercules_Missile
> 
> 
> --- "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan at nmcco.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Was this a Nuclear Power Plant or some other
> > industry?
> > 
> > Floyd W.Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
> > 
> > Sr. Analyst
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:56 AM
> > To: ROY HERREN; Flanigan, Floyd; efforrer at aol.com;
> > radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Wind Farms
> > 
> > And the oil, the heavy metals, the chemicals, etc.
> > 
> > They had a plant that would periodically discharge
> > water with a pH of 2-3 into the sewerage system that
> > eventually dumped into the harbor.
> > 
> > --- ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++
> "We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or
> omniscient - that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that
> we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we
> cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity; and therefore there
> cannot be an American solution to every world problem."
> -- John F. Kennedy 
> 
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
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