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Re: volcano?
Gee, this sounds thrilling! Any idea where I might buy one? Just think, I might be the first in my
neighborhood to own a real honest-to-gosh super-volcano. Boy! That would impress the neighbors. They
already kinda' look apprehensively out of the sides of their eyes when I mow with my mower on a tether.
Just wait 'til they see this puppy! Great jumpin' butterballs; after all those lousy jokes, I'll bet
finally this REALLY will glow in the dark ... what a way to celebrate New Year's Eve!
I think I'll go back to bed - need to sleep on this one .... it will probably cost my life savings ....
Cheers,
Maury Siskel maury@webtexas.com
PS I just cleaned out all the Norman-mail from my inbox - freed up all kinds of disk space, but I'll
miss the favorite Radsafe mascot ....
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DWhitfil@KDHE.STATE.KS.US wrote:
> For those few paranoid individuals that have infiltrated this site...here
> is another thing for you to add to your list of things to obsess about:
> Super volcanoes...
>
> See http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/supervolcanoes.shtml
>
> Just a few snippets from the site to ensure you get a nice restful sleep
> tonight:
>
> "Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive
> and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes.
> Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any
> volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the
> world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be
> plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter."
>
> "It is little known that lying underneath one of America's areas of
> outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest
> supervolcanoes in the world. Scientists have revealed that it has been on a
> regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000
> years ago...so the next is overdue."
>
> "And it would devastate the planet. Climatologists now know that Toba
> blasted so much ash and sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere that it
> blocked out the sun, causing the Earth's temperature to plummet. Some
> geneticists now believe that this had a catastrophic effect on human life,
> possibly reducing the population on Earth to just a few thousand people.
> Mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction? and it could happen again."
>
> Hmmmmm....can we say ELE? E X T I N C T I O N L E V E L E V E N T...Oh
> my! Life will never be the same...
>
> My opinions only.
>
> DJWhitfill
>
>
> "Tuttle, William K."
> <William.Tuttle@MED.VA. To: "'Susan Gawarecki'" <loc@ICX.NET>, RADSAFE
> GOV> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
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>
> 11/27/01 05:03 PM
> Please respond to
> "Tuttle, William K."
>
>
>
> Why is it foolish to site major cities in areas of volcanoes which are
> relatively inactive? Surely it is more foolish to site major cities in
> areas of active earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, etc? We can
> probably think of some environmental reason not to locate a major city at
> most places they are presently located.
>
> Not the government's (my employer) opinion, only mine
>
> William K. Tuttle III
> Portland VA Medical Center
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Susan Gawarecki [SMTP:loc@ICX.NET]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:40 PM
> > To: RADSAFE
> > Subject: Re: volcano?
> >
> > That would really depend on the type of volcano! A Mount St.
> > Helens-type would just spread it all around. Of course, no one is
> > foolish enough to site a radwaste repository in an active andesitic
> > volcanic regime like the Pacific northwest (it's foolish enough to site
> > major cities there).
> >
> > Most of the theoretical volcano concerns I've heard have been in regards
> > to Yucca Mtn. In that case, the granite mountain would not be
> > penetrated by the volcano or its lava pipes; lava like water follows the
> > path of least resistance and would travel through the heavily fractured
> > down-faulted areas, emerging on the dry lake beds or at worst adjacent
> > to the mountains. This extensional geologic regime is characterized by
> > basaltic lavas, which are not explosive and spread out in sheet flows or
> > form relatively small cinder cones.
> >
> > Gee, all those underground explosions at NTS didn't start any volcanos
> > (or cause any big earthquakes)--I don't think there is likely to be a
> > problem with either at Yucca Mtn. Let's get that spent fuel on the road
> > (an opinion shared by the Local Oversight Committee)!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Susan
> >
> > > Volcanos bting up molten rock through "pipes" a few sq. m. cross
> > > sectional area, so if a volcano came up thru a waste repository, only a
> > > tiny fraction of the stored radwaste would be affected. The rest would
> > > become more tightly sealed.
> >
> > --
> > .....................................................
> > Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
> > Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee
> > Please visit our Web site - http://www.local-oversight.org
> > .....................................................
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