[ RadSafe ] Scenarios

[Dan McCarn]

Thank you for the hyperlink!  Very informative!

Dan ii

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ahmad Al-Ani <ahmadalanimail at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> "From the map on this page,generated by the Defense Department
> software,we can see that within 48 hours, prevailing winds would spread
> fallout to cover a large area in Iran, most of Afghanistan and then spread
> on into Pakistan and India. There is little likelihood, in most seasons,
> that rain would mitigate the spread of fallout"
>
> That and more from page 10 of this http://tinyurl.com/6vdlmu7
>
> You are so obsessed with Iran's reactor, yet you think that it is being
> cooled from a river. Here is some basic facts
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr_Nuclear_Power_Plant
>
> Ahmad
>
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: "JPreisig at aol.com" <JPreisig at aol.com>
> >To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> >Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 10:29 PM
> >Subject: [ RadSafe ] Scenarios
> >
> >Dear Radsafe,
> >
> >
> >     From:    _jpreisig at aol.com_ (mailto:jpreisig at aol.com)
> >
> >
> >     Hope you all are well.  Here is a brief  discussion of some scenarios
> >involving a reactor or
> >whatever in Iran.
> >
> >     In Health Physics etc. one of the accident  simulation scenarios is
> >something like what will
> >happen to a reactor if a 747 airplane crashes into the containment
> >building.  So let's build upon that
> >possibility.
> >
> >      Suppose a 747 jet crashes into a building  housing centrifugal U235
> >enrichment machines, and the
> >facility is above ground.  I guess such a crash would release Uranium
> >Hexafluoride (or
> >whatever chemical gas is involved) to the atmosphere.  Countries East  of
> >Iran might be
> >affected in such a scenario.  Such a release doesn't seem very ominous  to
> >me.   I guess the
> >Iranians could limit such an accident from happening by placing their
> >centrifugal
> >enrichment facility underground.  Does such a facility exist???   Sure,
> >something other
> >than a 747 jet (if you catch my Bunker Buster drift) could crash into
> such
> >a facility.
> >
> >     What kind of peaceful reactor does Iran  have???  Is it a PWR
> >(Pressurized Water Reactor)
> >or a BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) and what is the power level (in
> MegaWatts
> >or whatever)???
> >Is this reactor as big, power-wise as a typical US power reactor????
> >
> >      Well. now consider a 747 jet airplane (or  whatever) crashing into
> >the containment of
> >Iran's peaceful energy reactor.  Is the containment building up  to US
> >safety standards???
> >Who built the reactor --- France, USSR, China, or someone else????   Let's
> >say the containment
> >building fails miserably and the reactor core loses its cooling  water.  A
> >Chernobyl type
> >event in a rather arid part of the world.  I suppose there is extra
> >cooling water nearby from a river
> >to supply emergency cooling water.  Iran's response to such an  accident
> >would be to try to
> >restore cooling water to the reactor, and barring that, to cover the
> >reactor with dirt, concrete etc.
> >Of course, the Iranian nuclear engineers, health physicists, emergency
> >response personnel
> >would be picking up considerable dose equivalent responding to the
> >incident.  If this were to
> >happen, would Iran accept help from outside nations???
> >
> >     Of course, depending on the weather conditions  around the time and
> >vicinity of the reactor
> >and reactor accident, countries immediately to the East of Iran might
> >suffer some
> >considerable exposure risk.  Any cropland involved might be affected
> also.
> >
> >     Of course, Iran's next reactor might be built  underground????!!!!!
> >
> >     So, there you go, something to think about for the  rest of today.
> >
> >     And I didn't even say Israel even  once...OOOOOPSSSS!!!!!
> >
> >
> >     Regards,     Joseph R. (Joe)  Preisig, PhD
> >
> >
> >
> >
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