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Re: Indian Point story
From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>
> 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.
True - except for the part about "ask" :-)
Jim
> ----- 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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