The reactor isn't melting, we're not gonna die, it's not going to create this:
Yours truly,
Your friendly neighborhood nuclear power plant operator and former Navy Nuke.
Posted on 03/11/2011 4:22:39 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
The lack of damage to the buildings themselves points out the many things that went right. I have faith in those folks.
They hate the Earth.............and they can't afford the efficiency of them.
The worst case? Chernobyl times ten. It will be very bad.
Perhaps it would be wise to build nuclear power plants away from active fault lines.
A sequel with Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas?
Yes, it's a big deal to have one reactor in trouble...but 5? That substantially increases the opportunity for disaster.
I hope so, I can't take much more of the "SHAME...SHAME...SHAME" "HEY HEY HO HO" crowd after the excellent job Gov. Walker did in Wisconsin recently.
No, it’s not good. Sometimes you really do need to do a cost benefit analysis. The danger of nuclear power when something goes wrong is just horrendous. There is no chance for a “do over” - the fallout is permanent.
Most of the east coast and middle of the US is perfectly safe for nuclear power plants. As long as the EPA doesn’t mandate their construction on the San Andreas, it’s really no big deal. Not that the anti-nukes know anything about geography. Or science, for that matter.
THAT in itself would be life threatening to millions!
LOL!
Look at the bright side. Geraldo feels twenty years younger today.
C’mon now. Extremist liberals don’t let facts get in their way. And the pinhead in the Oval wouldn’t care either.
But, what if an asteroid bounced off Neptune, hit the gravitational pull of the moon, swung into our atmosphere at the exact time that AF 1 was in it's path, the asteroid shifted course by nipping the wing of AF 1, hit a penguin in the head in Antarctica, and the penguins head slammed into the ice and created a breakup of Antarctica which shifted the seas that caused a massive earth quake in middle America?
Good God, don't you watch the discovery channel? ~ snort
Back in the ‘90’s, I worked a refueling at the Oconee Nuclear Plant. When exiting a “hot” area, a detector reading of 150 dpm would set off the alarm and require decontamination (usually done by using masking tape to pull the offending speck of hot material off). In contrast, if you placed a Coleman Lantern mantle before the detector it would read 2000 dpm. Coleman lantern mantles are available in Walmart and other stores, sitting on the shelf.
Saying that the level is much higher than normal does not necessarily mean that the world is about to end, regardless of the breathless pronunciations of the news talking heads and their anti-nuke activists posting as “experts’ on the news.
The average nuclear plant worker gets less radiation than an airline flight crew member. You will get more radiation leaning against a granite Federal building than you will leaning against the fence of a nuclear power plant.
Again, there is no need to panic over this. We are not witnessing a Japanese remake of “The China Syndrome”. The Japanese plants are built with solid containment structures that are designed to do just that, contain.
Business wise, That weekend was a flop. Bug it sure gave us a generation of great music.
Is he calling himself Jerry?
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