Not to worry Mike, Dirk and Listers, The GE designed reactors (1960) at Fukushima/Daiichi have triple on site redundancy in cooling and containment and the possibility of an uncontrolled environmentally harmful release of radioactive (in this case steam) is negligible.
It's all in the numbers. When the media reports that core pressures are such and such above normal and that the radioactivity that might be released is " thousand of times above normal", they fail to tell you that "normal" is such a low level of emission as to mean nothing to humans, or the environment. This same kind of irresponsible reporting created the infamous, an unnecessary, panic at "Three Mile Island" where the total tritium release equated to a couple of X-rays, or a trip across the USA on an airliner. My point is, that If you demonstrated to the typical uneducated man in the street that a bit of Trinitite was giving off 1000 times the background (normal) radiation level, he'd panic. I've proved this by putting a contamination meter on Trinitite samples with the sensitivity set to high and watching my victim's reaction as it loudly goes off scale. When I served on Nevada's Nuclear Waste Study Committee and was the entertainment on the Chamber of Commerce and Lion's Club rubber chicken circuit, I used to place a common household smoke detector (They contain an Americium emitter) under some hapless audience member's chair and then, much to his discomfort, using a meter to locate him. The great unwashed have more fears than medieval peasants, yet they refuse to expend the mental sweat to learn the science. Ask them to listen to more than two sentences describing fission and their eyes glaze over. Yet their votes decide the future of energy production, or better said..the lack of it....in my country. Regards and stay calm. Count Deiro IMCA 3536 -----Original Message----- >From: Michael Gilmer <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 11, 2011 6:32 PM >To: Count Deiro <[email protected]> >Cc: drtanuki <[email protected]>, [email protected] >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 8.9 Quake in Japan, 10 meter Tsunami, Hope Dirk >and others are ok > >Hi Count and List, > >I pray you are correct Count! The situation at Fukashima is getting >worse and they are trying to open the valve to release pressure - a >bad sign itself. And now they are having problems getting the valve >to work. :( > >Best regards, > >MikeG > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites > >Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com >Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone >News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 >Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone >EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >On 3/11/11, Count Deiro <[email protected]> wrote: >> There are two chances that any reactor built in a developed country will do >> a Chernobyl. >> >> Slim and None. >> >> The liberal media loves to run with this stuff to increase viewership. >> Politicians demagogue everything nuclear to get re-elected. The result is an >> electorate with more unfounded fears than a mob of medival peasants. >> >> Count Deiro >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >>>From: Michael Gilmer <[email protected]> >>>Sent: Mar 11, 2011 8:05 AM >>>To: drtanuki <[email protected]> >>>Cc: [email protected] >>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 8.9 Quake in Japan, 10 meter Tsunami, Hope >>> Dirk and others are ok >>> >>>Stay safe Dirk! I hope you are nowhere near the Fukashima (sp?) >>>nuclear power plant. I heard they cannot cool the reactor and they >>>are evacuating the facility. It could be another 3-mile Island or >>>Chernobyl. >>> >>>My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in the quake zone. >>> >>>Best regards, >>> >>>MikeG >>> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites >>> >>>Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com >>>Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone >>>News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 >>>Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone >>>EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 >>>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>On 3/11/11, drtanuki <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> We are having another big rupture as I type.... under the table. >>>> Dirk...Tokyo >>>> >>>> --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Darren Garrison <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> From: Darren Garrison <[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 8.9 Quake in Japan, 10 meter Tsunami, Hope >>>>> Dirk and others are ok >>>>> To: "Meteorite-list" <[email protected]> >>>>> Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 12:16 AM >>>>> Here's a live English news feed on Al >>>>> Jazeera: >>>>> >>>>> http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ >>>>> >>>>> and the NHK: >>>>> >>>>> http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6810.htm >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> Visit the Archives at >>>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >>>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> Visit the Archives at >>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >>>> Meteorite-list mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >>>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>______________________________________________ >>>Visit the Archives at >>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >>>Meteorite-list mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> > > >-- ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
