[ RadSafe ] Self-Described Rabble Rouser issues RED ALERT! CALL TO DEMAND SHUT DOWN OF INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER POINT, NOW!

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

I don't know that I've ever seen a nuclear Power Point.  I've seen Power
Point presentations about nuclear power, but ironically a number of them
have been by anti-nukes.  

I like his line, " Should any of the spent fuel rods stored in pools at
Indian Point be washed into the Hudson, we can kiss New York City
goodbye."  Kissing New Your City is an unreasonable health hazard, but I
would love to see the scenario in which a fuel assembly in the rack in
the spent fuel pool could be "washed out".  It would be equally
entertaining seeing how the 4 meter long fuel assembly gets out of the
building, let alone down to the river.  However, if spent fuel wound up
in the river, I strongly suspect that it would be fine.  I mean, the
fuel is designed to be in very hot high pressure water; low pressure
cold water shouldn't present that much of an issue (I suppose with
extremely fresh fuel there could be some type of thermal shock issue,
but most fuel in the pool isn't all that fresh).  Even if the cladding
failed, there isn't a driver for fission fragments to leave the pellets.


It is a shame Mr. Cohen isn't at least a tenth as informed as he appears
to think he is.  Or perhaps it is just his intellectual honesty that is
orders of magnitude too low.

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Subject: [ RadSafe ] Self-Described Rabble Rouser issues RED ALERT! CALL
TO DEMAND SHUT DOWN OF INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER POINT, NOW!

This guy certainly can rabble rouse, but basic knowledge of the science
is not one of his strong points.  Anyone who wants to write him can do
so at mitchelcohen at mindspring.com - he could use a lot of learning, but
probably is impervious to facts or learning anything that does not agree
with his preconceived ideas.

Roger Helbig


MITCHEL COHEN writer, activist, poet, chair WBAI-FM Local Station Board,
Brooklyn Greens, Red Balloon Collective, rabble rouser - he apparently
put this on KPFA News in Berkeley - long way from the East Coast or
Hurricane Sandy.

posted: "They've shut the subways. They've shut the schools.
They've shut the parks, tunnels and shortly the bridges. But the nuclear
power generators at Indian Point, just 26 miles north of New York City?
Those they're keeping open. This is insane! Should the "

New post on Mitchel Cohen

RED ALERT! CALL TO DEMAND SHUT DOWN OF INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER POINT,
NOW!

by MITCHEL COHEN

They've shut the subways. They've shut the schools. They've shut the
parks, tunnels and shortly the bridges. But the nuclear power generators
at Indian Point, just 26 miles north of New York City? Those they're
keeping open.

This is insane!

Should the waters of the Hudson flood into the the plant, that will be
an utter disaster. Should any of the spent fuel rods stored in pools at
Indian Point be washed into the Hudson, we can kiss New York City
goodbye. (How's that for an early morning TV show -- "Goodbye, New
York"?)

There are 16 nuclear power plants in the path of hurricane Sandy, as it
whips its way back from the Atlantic (at noon today) an up the coast.

Please call the following numbers immediately, and tell them to shut
down the Indian Point nuclear power plant:

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo: (518) 474-8390

Westchester County government: (914) 864-5450

Nuclear Regulatory Commission hotline: (301) 816-5100

This much, at least, we can do right now! Thank you!

MITCHEL COHEN | October 29, 2012 at 12:06 pm | Categories: Uncategorized
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