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

Tue Oct 30 07:42:10 CDT 2012

As of 9 PM last night (Eastern Time), no nuclear power plants had been shut down due to the storm.  This morning's NRC status report indicates Calvert Cliffs and Hope Creek are running; Oyster Creek and Salem are shut down (Oyster Creek is in outage--not sure about Salem).  The storm surge is north of the eye; therefore I'm pretty sure Oyster Creek would have gone into shut down.  Salem, Hope Creek, and Calvert would all be away from the surge, although still potentially subject to high winds and at least 6 inches of rain. 

Glenn

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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Perle, Sandy
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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

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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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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 "

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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!

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