Officials: Spent fuel rods may have burned in blaze at nuclear plant

CNN ^ | 15 March, 2011 | By the CNN Wire Staff

[TexasFreeper2009]

on vacation or planning for the next state dinner !

[Former Proud Canadian]

Thanks, Hal. Some of us are old enough to remember dozens and dozens of open air nuclear tests in the 40's, 50's and 60's. At times the superpowers were rattling nuclear sabers at each other, one atmospheric test after another. If you didn't live near the test sites in Nevada or the Pacific islands or wherever Russia tested, you were fine.

Nobody died from Three Mile Island. Many workers at Chernobyl died but only two people from the surrounding town died from the radiation. They had not been evacuated. There is no fallout danger in North America from these plants.

[glassylassie]

We used to play with mercury too. We had a jelly jar half full and would roll it around in our hands, splash it and dribble it down paper, squish it into bits and watch it reform larger puddles....we loved the stuff. It isn’t that harmful unless you breath the vapor or it it (fish)
We never drank it though:
http://www.newmoa.org/prevention/mercury/projects/legacy/religious.cfm

hijack/

[angcat]

Did the Hiroshima and Nagasaki open air blasts cause the US to evacuate the West coast?

I have been dying to ask that question.