[ RadSafe ] Re: Nuclear Power Plant Effluents / EMP, "Nuclear War Survival Skills "

[Richard L. Hess]

At 05:26 PM 2/27/2005, John Jacobus wrote:
>Out of curiosity, what actions or recommendations have
>you and family taken?  Have you built fallout
>shelters, store water, built electroscopes, etc?

Hello, John,

I'm trying to make sense of this all. I keep hearing so much doom and gloom 
that I'm asking out of intellectual interest.

I do have two CDV-700s and an Aware RM-70 (IIRC). They are all G-M devices. 
I don't have electroscopes, etc. I have not built a fallout shelter, but, I 
have moved away from the LA Basin for other reasons to an area about 40 
miles north of downtown Toronto--my wife's hometown.

In LA we used to store water and food, but don't do as much here. It was 
for earthquake protection, not nuclear incidents. We keep a little here in 
case we are blizzarded in.

I want to be informed to make decisions for my family--that was the 
original intent of my joining the list. I had heard things around work like:

--"my brother works for the spook agency and he wants me to outfit my cabin 
in the Sierras with a generator as a place to run to."

--"I lived in Montana and I wouldn't drive the Snake River route without a 
Geiger Counter." (I did, and it showed background radiation peaking around 
20µR/hr near some lava outcroppings and a bit more at the lip of the huge 
open-pit mine in Butte MT. It was down to about 5 across the Canadian 
prairies.)

This is pretty powerful stuff to hear when you've got two kids (at the time 
around 5-8) and a wife and you travel a lot. Nothing I've done has made me 
feel safer than joining this list, and I appreciate it.

My interest in EMP recently was started by a mention on an archives-related 
mailing list and some people were making claims about EMP that sounded 
rather, extravagant to say the least. It turns out from reading some of the 
cited literature that the area of an EMP from a high-altitude blast is 
continental. I haven't yet gotten to the strength of it. If someone 
mentions something and it impacts work that I'm interested in, I like to 
learn enough about it to confirm or debunk the claims.

The thought here is that as we migrate audio and video archives from analog 
tape to digital storage (which may be on multiple hard-disk drives) that we 
need to worry more about EMP wiping out the whole thing. Someone kindly 
shot down that argument, but I've wanted to investigate enough to shoot it 
down technically if it's bogus. More reading is in order.

I'm much more concerned about lightning than EMP, since it appears that the 
light pole in front of my neighbor's home was taken out a few years ago by 
a direct lightning hit. It also took out a fair amount of electronics in my 
neighbor's home on the other (far) side. I'm taking reasonable precautions 
to protect my equipment.

Also, my query about NGS/NPP effluents was in the spirit of trying to 
understand the TFP how they can claim 30% increase in cancer when no 
significant/measurable leaks are ever reported by the NGS which has the 
responsibility to do such monitoring.

I do believe the scientists on this list that tell me that there is more 
radiation in the coal-fired plant emissions than from an NGS.

So, no, I'm not digging a shelter, nor am I investigating membership in Ark 
II which seems to be about 30-50 miles from me.

By the way, horrible happenings back in So. Cal. Looks like I got out in 
time! Our home was on a decomposed granite hillside and from what I've 
heard, nothing has happened. Stay dry!

Cheers,

Richard

>
>--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> > "Nuclear War Survival Skills" by Cresson Kearny,
> > upated 1987, 1999 addendum on Hormesis, Foreword by
> > Edward Teller, 282pp "may be reproduced without
> > obtaining permission from anyone" is available
> > online free (hard cc $19.75 delivered) at
> > www.oism.org/nwss I gave copies to all my family
> > members. It
>
>=====
>+++++++++++++++++++
>"Baltimore is actually a very safe city if you are not involved in the 
>drug trade."
>DR. PETER BEILENSON, the city's health commissioner.
>
>-- John
>John Jacobus, MS
>Certified Health Physicist
>e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
>
>
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