Re: [DOEWatch] Understanding the tsunami threat to coastal nuclea r power plants

["High Plains Drifter" <magna1@jps.net>]

Mr. Hoffman's rantings address two fundamentel premises:  1) Some people

cannot see the forest for the trees; and 2) a little bit of knowledge can be

dangerous for some people.





"In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting."

                                      --Ernest Rutherford



Dean Chaney, CHP, IBA (aka High Plains Drifter)

Fairfield, CA

magna1@jps.net

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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:49 PM

Subject: Re: [DOEWatch] Understanding the tsunami threat to coastal nuclea r

power plants





> In a message dated Wed, 20 Jun 2001  6:52:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

"Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@prodigy.net> responds to the following:

>

> << ...the idea of building a nuclear power   plant in an earthquake zone

OR a tsunami zone (coastal area) is   ludicrous! Or an asteroid zone.>>

>

> With the tongue-in-cheek:

>

> << If I understand this correctly, it is possible that an enormous

earthquake, asteroid,or tsunami might some day hit the southern California

coast...[and] the really serious   consequence of such an event   would be

the destuction of the San Onofre   Nuclear Power Plant  with possible

release of radioactivity.   Stop the world. I want to   get   off!   >>

>

> What I want to know is, how do I get to the nearest asteroid-free zone?

>

> Barbara L. Hamrick

> BLHamrick@aol.com

>

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