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

[Jerry Cohen]

Steven et al,
It's really not funny. I think the majority of the public actually believe the 
horror scenario of a "China syndrome" is actually possible. Unfortunately, so do 
many Washington bureaucrats. Some other "possibilities" that have actually 
received serious consideration in siting studies include, falling airplanes, 
meteor impact, and people actually spending their entire life living at the site 
boundry at the center of any and all downwind release trajectories. My favorite 
occured at the siting hearings for the San Onofre Power Plant. According to one 
witness, his seismic analysis indicated that the plant could  be hit by a 400 
foot high Tsunami. Such an occurence would make the Fukushima event seem trivial 
in comparison. Of course, in such an event, everyone living between Los Angelas 
and the Mexican border would likely drown to death, buy the really serious 
consequence might be the release of some I-131, deadly Plutonium, and maybe even 
the terrible Depleted Uranium. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, no matter 
how absurd, but what law says that it must be taken seriously.



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From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
To: Jerry Cohen <jjcohen at prodigy.net>; The International Radiation Protection 
(Health Physics) Mailing List <radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu>
Sent: Thu, September 30, 2004 5:19:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Forwarded to the list: Indian Point License extension.

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"
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> <radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu>
> 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

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