Tuesday's Question (Re: dave's answer to one of your questions)

[Kerimbaev <kerrembaev@YAHOO.COM>]

Dave,





I am really, sorry but I HAVE to be a harsh one

at this time...



How much of the possibly escaping Rad. material

we (NRC or you) are talking about?

Enough to register with the "looking for every

charged and uncharged particle in the air"

instrument?



The most of the Spent Fuel is OLD and lost it's

THERMO EMMITTING ENERGY!

So the lack of the cooling would NOT make any

significant escape OUT from the zirconium

cladding or even more the OUT site of plant's

boundaries.



Most of the escaped Rad. Material (C0-60 and

Cs-137) will be the FUEL BUNDLE SURFACE

contamination which WILL become AIRBORN as the

result of the transformation of the WET

contamination INTO the DRY DUST due to luck of

water/moister = bondage in the storage volume. 



Probably, effective HEPA filters will be able to

capture out that and prevent ANY futher escape

from the Fuel Handling Building.





I am assure YOU that even if this scenario EVER

could have happen THEN it will be in the MAJORITY

the amount of Co-60(activation product) and some

Cs-137(fission product); It will be SO SMALL that

there will be MUCH MORE DEATHS from the

Radiophobia than from "HYPOTHETICAL LNT" and NON

of the ACTUAL harm from the radiation.



The Tuesday's question: 



1. Are we/you in the business of trying to

protect  people from their own Phobias?

Or 

2. Are we/you are protecting our people from the

ACTUAL harm from the Radiation?



If One. 

Then we/you are FELLONS who are practicing

medicine without legal medical licenses and it is

illegal in every of 50 of the USA states!



We/You need to stop THAT and let DOCTORS do their

job, by helping THEIR patients.



If Two. 

Then YOU are MISINFORMING already SICK people

about the subject of their phobia.



Then YOU are unwarily SICK or professionally

"concern" and absolutely privately

unconcern/ignorant people......who needs to be

seeing by the mentioned above doctors as well.



Regards,





Emil.





>> to loss of integrity of the metal tubes,

allowing the radioactive material inside the

tubes to be

> released. The radioactive gases and small

particles can escape the fuel handling building

and reach the atmosphere.

>>









From: Norman Cohen 

Subject: dave's answer to one of your questions



Dave Lochbaum wrote:



> Hello Norm:

>

> The NRC's report from October 2000 documented

that a spent fuel pool with a partial water

draindown can lead to a

> spent fuel fire. The zirconium cladding (i.e.,

the metal tubes that contain the fuel pellets)

> can reach its ignition temperature in the

presence of air when there's inadequate cooling.

The resulting fire leads

> to loss of integrity of the metal tubes,

allowing the radioactive material inside the

tubes to be

> released. The radioactive gases and small

particles can escape the fuel handling building

and reach the atmosphere.

> Due to its decay, iodine-131 is not much of a

concern in this scenario. But cesium-137

> poses a concern due to its longer half-life

(about 30 years as opposed to 8 days).

>

> Take care,

>

> Dave

>

> >>> Norman Cohen  11/19/01 09:40AM >>>

> Dave,

> Can you explain furtrher your comments about

the fuel catching fire and

> being dispersed into the atmosphere.

> Norm







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