Mark, if the stored radioactive material escapes it may not travel too far unless it is transported into the upper atmosphere. Is there reason to believe that anyone except for the local region will receive a massive dose? Not that that would be so great!
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Mark Goldes <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 12:54 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]:Michio Kaku: One solar flare could bring many Fukushimas This is one of two Ticking Time Bombs which pose near-term threats to life in at least the Northern hemisphere. The other is the fuel pools at Fukushima. A strong earthquake, which is virtually certain within three years, can release radioactivity exceeding all 700 nuclear bombs exploded in the atmosphere since WWII. See the Aesop Institute website for much more information and additional suggestions for prevention of the worst. Incidently, a solar flare has launched a pair of CMEs that will hit the geomagnetic field this weekend. This is an M-class event and will probably only affect the polar region on Sunday. However, NOAA says we have a 70% probability of more M-class CMEs and a 30% chance of an X-class CME from this same sunspot now facing the earth. Mark Mark Goldes Co-Founder, Chava Energy CEO, Aesop Institute www.chavaenergy.com www.aesopinstitute.org 707 861-9070 707 497-3551 fax ________________________________________ From: ChemE Stewart [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 9:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Michio Kaku: One solar flare could bring many Fukushimas Guys, I think we are at a HUGE risk with Fission reactors in 2013 with CMEs and the two large Comets inbound (a third comet just broke up) which will fly close to the sun and could trigger large ejections and flares. A huge solar flare could fry the grid, backup batteries and knock out generators on Earth. I say take fission reactrors offline for a year and fire up the gas turbines while we see what happens with the sun. I think the comets will cool things down anyway. Stewart darkmattersalot.com<http://darkmattersalot.com> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Vorl Bek <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:10:07 -0500 (EST) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > > Preventing Armageddon Would Cost Only $100 Million > … But Congress Is Too Thick to Approve the Fix > > http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/preventing-armageddon-would-cost-only-100-million-but-congress-is-too-thick-to-approve-the-fix.html > > >From the article: Unfortunately, the world’s nuclear power plants, as they are currently designed, are critically dependent upon maintaining connection to a functioning electrical grid, for all but relatively short periods of electrical blackouts, in order to keep their reactor cores continuously cooled so as to avoid catastrophic reactor core meltdowns.... I thought that reactors were designed so that inserting rods of some material would kill the reaction. I imagine they would have battery power for long enough to insert the rods; heck, maybe they even have a manual way to crank the motor to do it.
