“Farmers are told to separate cream and use fatless milk, but are not told how or where to dispose of the remaining liquid.”
Not sure how removing cream is going to remove individual atoms of metal, but fat-free milk is a good idea in general, and “disposing of the remaining liquid” is not unprecedented.
Filed under Chernobyl, Environment, International, Radiation, Safety
Posted on March 31, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“How can NRC approve a license extension for Palisades when Consumers Energy and Nuclear Management Company nearly dropped a 107 ton nuclear waste container into the storage pool in October 2005? Such a drop could have punched a hole in the pool floor, draining away the cooling water, leading to a waste fire and radioactive inferno.”
-Nuclear Information and Resource Service
These guys must be in line for a Nobel prize. They figured out not only how to make water drain up but how to set ceramic on fire.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Industry Performance, Physics, Safety
Posted on March 31, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“People are told to wash food at least five times in “clean water” but nobody is told where this clean water is to be found.”
I thought they said that the food itself was contaminated.
Filed under Chernobyl, Environment, International, Radiation, Safety
Posted on March 30, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“Climate change is undoubtedly a very serious problem, but nuclear power can only ever make a small contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. It supplies only 8% of total energy in the UK.”
-Nuclear-Free Local Authorities Web Service
That’s what nuclear power plants do–supply electricity. Do you see them criticizing windmills for not producing transport fuels?
What’s their solution? Burn more gas!
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Environment, Fun With Statistics, Industry Performance
Posted on March 30, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
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Uh, OK, I guess. It decays, so you would think it would go down. And their threshold for contamination is radioactivity equivalent to that from 1 gram of radium per square kilometer, or distributing a single ounce of material over 11 square miles. Nice for a science experiment on the sensitivity limits of mass spectrometry, but inconsequential for public health.
Filed under Chernobyl, Environment, Fun With Statistics, International, Physics, Safety
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“All over the world, criticality events are gathering at the bottom of sealed cans, drums, tanks and bottles.”
Criticality. Events. Occur. Only. In. Fissile. Material.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Physics, Plutonium, Safety
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
The NRC’s fact sheet is pretty good. I’m working on a real article.
Filed under Safety, Three Mile Island
Posted on March 28, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“The Director of the Malinovka Centre has found that 95% of the 5,000 evacuee children living there are ill.”
That’s terrible, but every case of the flu in Ukraine is not Chernobyl’s fault.
Filed under Chernobyl, Fun With Statistics, Health, International, Safety
Posted on March 28, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“Critical Mass
The minimum mass of a fissionable material that will just maintain a fission chain reaction under precisely specified conditions, such as the nature of the material and its purity, the nature and thickness of the tamper (or neutron reflector), the density, and the physical shape. For an explosion to occur, the system must be supercritical (i.e., the mass of the material must exceed the critical mass under the existing conditions).”
And even if it is supercritical, the geometry and timing must be correct. In a nuclear power plant, they aren’t.
A nuclear explosion at a nuclear power plant is 110% physically impossible. It will not happen because it cannot happen.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Physics, Proliferation, Safety
Posted on March 28, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“Evacuees are stigmatised by the local population and referred to as “Chernobyls”. Nobody wants to marry them, employ them or be friends with them, for fear of contamination and because of ignorance. This stigmatism is similar to that experienced by the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who became known as Hibashuka [sic].”
BTW, it’s hibakusha.
So nukophobia now is the fault of the misunderstood event?
Filed under Chernobyl, Health, International, Proliferation, Safety
Posted on March 27, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
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