[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Anti nuke questions
Don't waste your time with any of those questions let
alone with Russell. If Russell has an ernest desire
to have those questions answered then he should direct
them to either the plant itself or to the NRC.
It seems that almost all of those questions are easily
answered by the NRC. I suppose that Russell just does
not want to do any leg work and/or knows the answers
to some of the questions but is just playing games
with you.
In past dealings I had with Russell, he seemed
unwilling to do a simple internet search on basic
topics and demanded that I cite the web sites where I
got some info...despite the fact that had he spent 10
seconds on a Google search he would have found them.
My advice to you is not waste any time with Russell.
He is only looking for trouble and does not really
care too much about reality. After all, he did tell
me once that "if the nuclear industry were really
concerned about safety then they would launch
asteroid-searching satellites into orbit."
Furthermore, he is not concerned about the extra 23
mREM he receives from living in CA (as opposed to the
Gulf States) but strongly opposes a 0.1 mREM dose from
SONGS because 0.1 mREM is too much.
How can you argue with that sort of twisted outlook on
life?
So, in conclusion, drop it. Tell Russell that you
will not play games and answer questions that he
already knows the answer to. If he doesn't knwo them,
then he should pose them to either the plant or the
NRC. Of course, the NRC's website has the names and
phone numbers of all PM's but my guess is that he
already knows who they are and has already spoken with
them.
Tim
--- Michael Dupray <MRDupray@lbl.gov> wrote:
> Ok Radsafers.....
>
> Here's a batch of questions that were sent to me
> from DOE Watch (gag!).
> I need a little help with some of the answers.
>
> Anyone care to take a shot at these?? Eric Golden??
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> How many of the welds (if any) at San Onofre are
> made from INCO 182?
> From Hastalloy-X? Is INCONEL-600 used anywhere at
> the plant?
>
> Why did Davis-Besse's Reactor Pressure Vessel Head
> corrode? How long
> did it take? How much time did Ohio have left
> before a blow-out and
> possible meltdown?
>
> How can you be sure San Onofre's reactor heads
> aren't also corroded,
> since the scuttlebutt is that no one's removed the
> shrouds at San Onofre
> Unit
> II or Unit III since the day they started operating?
>
> How much radiation was released by San Onofre in the
> past 24 hours? In
> the past year? The past decade? Since it opened?
> For each release,
> can
> you specify the date and breakdown the radiation by
> isotopes? Can you
> specify the fundamental cause of each release?
>
> How much spent fuel is stored in the spent fuel
> pools at San Onofre
> (it's presumably well over 1,000 tons by now)?
>
> Was there a celebration at the facility when they
> reached the 1000 ton
> level of waste stored onsite at the plant?
>
> What are the chances of an asteroid impact somewhere
> in the Pacific
> producing a 100 foot wave at the San Onofre sea wall
> (which is 35 feet
> high)? What is the margin of error in the estimate?
> Where did this or
> an equivalent calculation appear in the builder's
> request for an
> operating
> license? When was this information last updated
> based on new data from
> NASA or other research efforts?
>
> What are the chances of a thrust-type underwater
> earthquake somewhere
> in the Pacific producing a 100 foot wave at the San
> Onofre sea wall?
> When
> was the last study done? Who did it? What
> computers were used to do
> the
> calculations? PDP-11s?
>
> When was the last local earthquake study done and
> who paid for it? Did
> it include a fresh engineering analysis of the
> plant, or only an
> analysis
> of the newly-discovered onshore and offshore faults
> in the area?
>
> Since embrittlement is a "force multiplier" (in the
> vernacular of the
> military) and starts immediately, and progresses
> thereafter, what
> effect does this have on San Onofre's ability to
> handle design-basis
> threats?
>
> Embrittlement can be caused by heat, vibration,
> radiation, and
> chemicals. What else can cause embrittlement?
>
> How many times has Unit II been SCRAMmed in its
> life? How many times
> has Unit III been SCRAMmed in its life?
>
> True or false: Linearly-increasing failure rates in
> complex systems can
> lead to exponentially-increasing failure rates for
> the larger system
> they are a part of.
>
> How many circuit breakers similar to the one which
> exploded in February
> 2001 are still in use at San Onofre?
>
> What protects the control room from airplanes
> crashing into it?
>
> How large (in Megawatts) is the largest wind turbine
> available today?
>
> Boeing recently announced a significant improvement
> in solar cell
> efficiency. What was the improvement factor?
>
> Why did the fork-lift tines on one of San Onofre's
> largest (and oldest)
> forklifts suddenly drop about 12 feet last year?
>
> The Mafia had a big hand in the cement industry a
> few decades back.
> How sure are you that the containment building is
> built as designed?
> The
> spent fuel pools?
>
> Why don't dry cask storage systems use Kevlar outer
> layers to protect
> against, say, 50-caliber machine gun bullets,
> grenades, truck bombs,
> etc.?
>
> How much time would it take to evacuate everyone
> within 10 miles of the
> plant? Within 50 miles?
>
> For some evacuation scenarios, people within a 10
> mile radius will be
> told NOT to evacuate, but rather, to stay indoors,
> because if they tried
> to
> evacuate they would be blocked by people further
> away who are also
> trying to evacuate, and would end up just sitting in
> their cars.
> Officials
> would rather have them sit indoors. How many pints
> of blood will be
> needed
> to treat these people in the following months?
>
> How many of them would try to leave anyway, only to
> receive a fatal
> radiation dose while sitting in their cars on a
> blocked highway?
>
> How much would an accident which required a
> permanent evacuation of a
> 10 mile radius around the plant cost the public in
> lost real estate
> costs
> alone? For a 50 mile radius?
>
> In your opinion, what effect would such an accident
> have on Southern
> California's tourism industry?
>
> If the farmlands around San Onofre become
> contaminated with radioactive
> particles released during a catastrophic accident at
> the facility, as
> happened to the farmlands around Chernobyl, what
> would it cost in ill
> will for all growers from Southern California who
> want to export their
> produce around the world?
>
> If the Pacific Ocean were used as the "Ultimate Heat
> Sink" (as the term
> is used in the technical specifications for the
> plant) after a meltdown
> (and for the next 100,000 years or so), what effect
> would it have on
> real
> estate prices in Long Beach, San Diego, and Tijuana,
> Mexico, let alone
> in San
> Clemente?
>
> In your opinion, will tourism go up, or down, in San
> Clemente,
> Oceanside, Carlsbad, etc. in the event of a meltdown
> at San Onofre?
>
> When you say there has been a 60-year "media
> paradigm" can you cite
> examples, from 1942 especially, to prove your point
> (whatever it is)?
> What is a "media paradigm"?
>
> Shortly after Three Mile Island, the National
> Enquirer (!) was the first
> to break the news that, according to government
> studies, nuclear power
>
=== message truncated ===
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more
http://games.yahoo.com/
************************************************************************
You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,
send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the text "unsubscribe
radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.
You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/