[Red Jones]

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[brityank]

To tell people that they and the Earth are in mortal danger from events that cannot cause significant public harm is to play into the hands of terrorists. It makes a minor event a cause for life-endangering panic.

Let there be light!

A sane dissertation of the facts as applied to the US Nuclear Reactor industry. Thanks, Willie.

[gcruse]

Most excellent post.

[rellimpank]

--this should be made available to every resident of Nevada. The people most opposed to the Yucca Mountain site are, as usual, the Greens who want no power sources at all, the windbags of the media who get better headlines from scare stories and the Demotraitor politicians like Harry Reid who have made it an issue that even the Republidums can't speak sanely about--

[JusticeLives]

"No airplane, regardless of size, can fly through such a wall. This has been calculated in detail and tested in 1988 by flying an unmanned plane at 480 mph into a test wall." - Anthony M. Gaglierd

I find this statement interesting because it sounds like we've had drones for quite awhile and not as recent as it's been stated. Maybe I've just not been paying attention :)

"The plane, including its fuel tanks, collapsed against the outside of the wall, penetrating less than an inch. The engines are a better penetrator, but still dug in only 2 inches." - Anthony M. Gaglierd

However, I did pay attention to the details of the plane that slammed into the Pentagon. If the walls there are 5 feet thick, why didn't we find most of the plane lying outside on the ground?

My theory is they flew a model airplane into the reinforced, steel-lined five-foot-thick concrete walls surrounding the nuclear reactor.

[metacognative]

"I suggest that the way to avert panic is to tell people there is no reason to panic." Easy for you to say...you're not a government funded enviro-wacko!

[BlueDragon]

For a while now I've been persuaded to generally agree with the information put forth in this article.
But this posting does prompt memory:

Ten years after the Chernobyl incident---which did result in
some very "hot" localized contamination, according to one article that I remember reading, those scientists monitoring the site found field rats living in the grasses
nearby the remains of the plant. The rats' thriving presence, and apparant health were suprising.
It was assumed that mammals of any kind would not be able to live close to the site for generations to come...

It had been calculated that the zone was hot enough to attack and break-down the DNA of living animals if they were to remain within the zone for very long. You know, the
"mutation" due to nuclear contamination syndrome...
Reported in the findings---the rats were in fact suffering
"dna breakages"---BUT---what was more interesting was a correlated finding, which in turn lead them to look more deeply into the question, which lead them to the most interesting finding; firstly, these "affected" rats were not "mutating" at all. Investigating further, evidence was found that as rapidly as the dna was being broken, as would be expected in this case--- but also that the dna
strands were somehow splicing themselves back together!
Which was a total suprise.
Without a hitch, apparently...


They found evidence of gene damage---AND 'repair', and somehow the repaired genes were in proper sequence, not mutated, or changed. Individual rats' dna showed signs of numerous breaks, and corresponding repairs. If memory serves correct, it was more like the dna was in some way re-splicing itself past the breaks, as in perhaps not immedietly right "at" the point of damage, but near-by, then re-attatched past the damage, and so on...
Somehow the DNA strands were able to "jump" past the breakages, about as fast as they occurred.