[ RadSafe ] Forwarded to the list: Indian Point License extension.

[Steven Dapra]

Dec. 28

         I get the impression that the Fukushima fearmongers believe 
every reactor in the world is susceptible to a combination earthquake 
and tsunami.  Is that only me, or have other gained the same impression?

         How would the melted fuel get out of the reactor 
vessel?  Would it melt through?  Or is it at least possible that the 
fuel could melt through?

Steven Dapra



At 10:57 PM 12/27/2011, you wrote:
>Forwarded.
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>Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Laurence F Friedman <friedmanla at iit.edu>
> > Subject: Indian Point License extension
> > Date: December 27, 2011 8:32:24 AM CST
> > To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> >
> >
> > Victor Gilinsky, an NRC Commissioner during the Three Mile Island 
> accident, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times opposing the 
> 20-year extension of the Indian Point operating 
> license.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/opinion/is-indian-point-the-next-fukushima.html
> >
> > Letters responding to Gilinsky's op-ed are here 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/opinion/indian-pt-and-fukushima-alike-or-not.html?_r=1.
> >
> > While Gilinsky is partially correct in his statement that 
> containments were not designed to resist a full meltdown in fact at 
> Three Mile Island more than half the fuel melted and the pressure 
> vessel wasn't damaged. The containment wasn't even challenged. The 
> report of the international commission that investigated the 
> condition of the pressure vessel is available from this page 
> http://guides.library.iit.edu/content.php?pid=27903&sid=205068. 
> Scroll down to "Three Mile Island." In any case, most of the 
> releases at Fukushima came from the spent fuel pools, not the 
> reactors themselves.
> >
> > Laurence F. Friedman, Ph.D., CHP
> > Senior Lecturer, Physics Department
> > Illinois Institute of Technology
> > Room 182, Life Science
> > 3101 South Dearborn
> > Chicago, IL 60616-3793
> > (312) 842-1789
> > friedmanla at iit.edu