Re: Indian Point story

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

I checked a CRAC-2 summary which says:  "... Early fatalities are deaths due to

radiation exposure from causes other than cancer occurring within one year of

the accident. However, fatalities will continue over hundreds, possibly

thousands of years. Fatalities in the populace directly ... "  Jeez, that's

almost enough to scare a person. If they could have included Chernobyl in that

study, then I wonder what kind of estimates might have been made for it. Yes,

Rob, in CRAC-2, they estimated short term fatalities many magnitudes greater

than was observed from Chernobyl.



Well, gotta' go.  It is time to begin preparations for the asteroid which is

supposed to come close to us in 878 years. Wut's a cubit?

Cheers,

Maury Siskel          maury@webtexas.com

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Rob Gunter wrote:



> Greetings All,

>

> Most of the article is tame relative to the statement "A 1982 study

> commissioned by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that a meltdown

> at Indian Point 2 could cause 46,000 fatalities and 141,000 injuries in the

> short term."

>

> What is meant by "Short Term".  Are we talking "short term" geologic time

> with the LNT and collective dose, or does the study anticipate an accident

> with short term fatalities orders of magnitude above Chernobyl??

>

> Robert J. Gunter, CHP

>

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



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