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

[Steven Dapra]

Dec. 29

         Thanks, Jerry.  (Heh, heh.)

Steven Dapra


At 03:25 PM 12/29/2011, you wrote:
>You can learn all about it in the movie, "China Syndrome"
>
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>From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
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>Sent: Wed, September 29, 2004 6:55:22 AM
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Forwarded to the list: Indian Point License 
>extension.
>
>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.
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > 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-t 
> he-next-fukushima.html
> >
> > >
> > > Letters responding to Gilinsky's op-ed are here
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/opinion/indian-pt-and-fukushima-a 
> like-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