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RE: Risk Communication/Wind Power/LOCA/LOBA Accidents



From: SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM [mailto:SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM]
Sent: Friday July 27, 2001 1:05 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Risk Communication/Wind Power/LOCA/LOBA Accidents
 
Radsafe:
 
Given the extensive recent discussion on Radsafe on risk communication
issues and wind power pros & cons, copied below is a news item about an
unfortunate fatal accident at a windmill in California in 1981 and the satire
I authored in a Letter-to-the-Editor about the "most dreaded of all power
generation accidents -- the Loss of Blade Accident (LOBA). LOBA is a non-too
veiled tongue-in-cheek allusion to LOCAs. For those on Radsafe who consider
this issue superfluous, hit your delete key now and no flaming please.
Thanks.
<SNIP>
 
Funny remark from a colleague :
 
And these things have, what, 2 or 3 blades each?
So if one broke off and hit another windmill releasing, on average, two blades .....