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

["Neil, David M" <neildm@ID.DOE.GOV>]

Well, if you go somewhere outside the Oort Cloud, the probability of an

encounter drops to effectively zero in a human lifetime. };-D



Not that it's realistically greater than zero for any given spot on Terra

for the same timespan.

Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov



		Anyone under 30, who is not a liberal, has no heart.  Anyone

over 30, who is not a conservative, has no brains.  ------- Sir Winston

Churchill



> -----Original Message-----

> From:	BLHamrick@AOL.COM [SMTP:BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

> Sent:	Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:50 PM

> To:	radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> 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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