RE: Indian Point story

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

Here's another scenario--people will be wanting compensation for what

"happened to their ancestors," and just like with the Holocaust, there will

be other people denying that Chernobyl ever really happened.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer





-----Original Message-----

From: Jerry Cohen [mailto:jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET]

Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:06 AM

To: maury; Rob Gunter

Cc: Radsafe

Subject: Re: Indian Point story





I can just picture it. 200 years from now, everyone who was alive at the

time Chernobyl occured will have died and the antinukes will ask how many of

these dead might still be alive were it not for all the deadly radioactivity

released at Chernobyl.



----- Original Message -----

From: maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>

To: Rob Gunter <rgunter@SEC-TN.COM>

Cc: Radsafe <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:01 PM

Subject: Re: Indian Point story





> 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

> ===============================

> 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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