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

Mon Oct 29 19:30:24 CDT 2012

Mike,

Silly is being kind!

Regards,

Sandy

-----------------------------------
Sander C. Perle 
President
Mirion Technologies
Dosimetry Services Division
2652 McGaw Avenue
Irvine, CA 92614

+1 (949) 296-2306 (Office)
+1 (949) 296-1130 (Fax)

Mirion Technologies: http://www.mirion.com/

On 10/29/12 4:37 PM, "Brennan, Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
wrote:

>That doesn't surprise me.  It is quite reasonable, when the grid may go
>down.  But in any event, SNF fuel getting washed out into the river is
>just silly.  
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Perle, Sandy
>Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 3:31 PM
>To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Self-Described Rabble Rouser issues RED ALERT!
>CALL TO DEMAND SHUT DOWN OF INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER POINT, NOW!
>
>Thanks Mike,
>
>It's standard practice that when there is a hurricane imminent in an
>area, NPPs will shut-down and I expect this to be true for Indian Point,
>Oyster Creek, Calvert Cliff and other plants in the area when the
>threshold is expected to be exceeded.
>
>See this news article for example:
>http://www.startribune.com/nation/176267621.html?refer=y
>
>Regards,
>
>Sandy
>
>-----------------------------------
>Sander C. Perle
>President
>Mirion Technologies
>Dosimetry Services Division
>2652 McGaw Avenue
>Irvine, CA 92614
>
>+1 (949) 296-2306 (Office)
>+1 (949) 296-1130 (Fax)
>
>Mirion Technologies: http://www.mirion.com/ "Protecting people, property
>and the environment"
>
>From: <Brennan>, "Mike (DOH)"
><Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV<mailto:Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>>
>Reply-To: "The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics)
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><radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu<mailto:radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>>
>Date: Monday, October 29, 2012 3:10 PM
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>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Self-Described Rabble Rouser issues RED ALERT!
>CALL TO DEMAND SHUT DOWN OF INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER POINT, NOW!
>
>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.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
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>it.edu>
>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Helbig
>Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:28 PM
>To: RADSAFE
>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<mailto: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
>|
>URL: http://wp.me/p1pizv-Ce
>
>Comment    See all comments
>
>http://www.mitchelcohen.com/?p=2370
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