> These findings are not new; I think there was a paper prepared some time
> back on it. My impression is that it was ignored because it contradicted
> the official assertion that the release of radioactive material was small.
> Of course, this would be relevant to the health impacts, actual and
> forecast. The forecasts and assessments were based in part on the amount of
> the release, and if the release were 10 to 150 times greater than announced,
> the health impacts would be forecast to be significantly higher, I assume.
> As I said, though, the engineers who developed the failure analysis did not
> look at the health impacts.
>
>
>
> I would assume that the Iranians would know all about the reactor they
> purchased. Evidently, the graphite reactor can be operated safely - witness
> the remaining three units on-site - as long as operated within SOPs. They
> may not know about the release data, but I would be surprised if they didn't
> as it would be, in my opinion, part of pre-purchase due diligence. The
> Iranians have a lot of excellent engineers.
I respectfully submit that the issue of fundamentalists who, socially,
will rip out women's genitalia to perfect them for Allah and then
bury them alive under cover-all smocks to avoid arousing men's sexual
drive (why not castrate instead of just circumcising?), etcc...
-- why these everything is bad except G-d's Word (which is Good even
when it tells you to murder your son!) -- why these people cannot
understanf that nuclear physics is Western Secular Degeneracy, and
why they don't disavow the atom just like they disavow MTV (E=MTV**2, etc.).
These people are getting off too easy with their ideological
double-think. If you want nuclear fission, then you also want
the "enlightenment" Weltanschauung which alone created it, starting
ca. Galileo, and which the 16th/17th century Chinese, according
to Joseph Needham "got right": When the Jesuits came to China
and offered the wonders of Galilean physics/technology as side-effects
of accepting Jesus Christ as your Personal Lord and Savior, the Chinese
recognized that Christianisty was just one more ethnic belief system like the
50 or so they already tolerated in their kingdon, but that Galilean
physics they recognized was something new, because it was true not just for those who
were childreared (and often genitally mutillated, I may add...) to
believe in it,
but
it was true for any person who took the
effort to do the proofs/demonstrations/.experiments for himself.
If Iran wanta an atom bomb, then at least they should also want Descartes,
if not also Erasmus, Rabelais, Kant, Husserl, Habermas et al.
H-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e-s (or the Holier-than-everyone-else
variety, in this case, of course). An Allah with post-Rutherford
atomic particles seems to me to be in need of im-Mullah-ation lest
the "believers" souls end up in the wrong place for all eternity.
\brad mccormick
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Lawry
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Darryl & Natalia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 3:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Futurework] Back to Chernobyl
>
>
>
> Thanks, Lawry,
>
>
>
> Any way to confirm this? I would think that Iran, and other nations foolish
> enough to consider the Russian product would appreciate this tidbit. Though
> I'm certain all reactors sold are to be "used only as directed", it would be
> useful info for those who need it for accurate assessment or study. If
> correct, it really should be made public. And I realize this could be
> difficult.
>
>
>
> Natalia
>
>
>
>
>
> NAV scanned
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Lawrence de Bivort <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To: [email protected]
>
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:32 AM
>
> Subject: [Futurework] Back to Chernobyl
>
>
>
> Greetings, everyone,
>
>
>
> After our discussion some time ago on Chernobyl, we were left with some
> uncertainty over just what happened. This information is from a reliable
> source, one of the Russian engineering team that went into Chernobyl to
> assess the accident and its causes. They used robots, of course.
>
>
>
> The reactor is a graphite, and had no containment vessel. There were about
> 200 tons of enriched uranium (235) in Unit Four, the one that had the
> accident. The crew was experimenting with the possibility of increasing the
> heat yield (and thus the amount of steam that could run the
> electricity-generating turbines) and lost control of the reactor. Steam
> built up rapidly within the core, and blew the top of the reactor off. Then
> there was a second explosion, equal they think to an 'inefficient' atomic
> bomb in power. This dispersed into the atmosphere, to a height of 70,000
> feet, approximately 190 tons of the enriched uranium. Thus now in the
> reactor only about 10 tons of the material is left. It was covered hastily
> in a concrete 'sarcophagus.' The Ukraine is asking for more international
> money to redo the sarcophagus, as it is deteriorating. The official story
> is that the great majority of the uranium is still in the sarcophagus, but
> photographs show that this is not correct.
>
>
>
> This person did not look at the health impacts of the explosion.
>
>
>
> The remaining three units remain in operation today. This is the same model
> that the Russians have sold to the Iranians, in a deal made in '91 or '92.
> The Iranians are having to pay more and more, and they still don't have
> their reactor.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lawry
>
>
>
>
>
>
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