[ RadSafe ] Abandoned

[Jeff Terry]

It was about 5 years before TMI Unit 2 was opened, if I recall correctly, sometime in 1984 or 1985?

Jeff


On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Larry Addis wrote:

> This is what I feared was happening last night when we heard 40 rem/hr dose
> rates outdoors at the site last night. I lay in bed and couldn't sleep last
> night worrying about something I had no control over. I hope there haven't
> already been lethal exposures to the brave souls that stayed for the last
> couple of days.
> 
> It will literally be years before we get those reactor vessel heads off and
> know what has happened or more pointedly, what is happening. 
> 
> I hadn't even thought of the spent fuel pools until a couple of days into
> the event. I've seen a pool lose cooling for a time. They heat up quickly.
> 
> This is truly a nightmare of historical/biblical proportions.  
> 
> I was asked to give a talk/answer session to an mech. engineering class
> today and said I'd wait - I just don't know what I'd say. Dumbstruck at this
> point.
> 
> LA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> The NY Times is reporting that the plant has been abandoned due to radiation
> risk. 
> 
> http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/latest-updates-on-japans-nuclear
> -crisis-and-earthquake-aftermath-2/#chief-cabinet-secretarys-news-conference
> 
> Jeff
> 
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