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originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Gothmog
Sure I remember Chernobyl I was around when it happened. However what has that to do with radiation on the west coasts or in Alaska or Hawaii? We have private companies that are keeping an eye out. I don't believe the people on the coast are relying on government info.
Anyway I'm not sure if the topic is emails or radiation that has infiltrated the country so I'm backing out of the thread.
Thanks for the info.
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: DJW001
There are a couple different "Martin Edelman"s that this might be:
Martin Edelman @ Academic Title: Professor
Primary Appointment: Medicine
Secondary Appointments: Radiation Oncology
Additional Title(s): Director, Medical Thoracic Oncology
or
Martin Edelman, Ph.D. (Collins Fellow)
University of California, Berkeley
One is an oncologist, the other is a political science professor. It could be either one of them and both would be in a position to know what they are talking about in regards to Fukushima radiation and what information the US government does not want shared.
What does this have to do with trusting the government?
When you have internal information being shared within the confines of said government and that information is contrary to what is being bandied about by the same government, we have major issues. It's not like this was strategic information of value to our enemies. This information could have reduced the exposure of American citizens to the deleterious effects of radioactive isotopes which have no business being outside of containment vessels.
Instead we were (and continue to be) fed a steady diet of, "nothing to see here, move along."
a reply to derfreebie
Other than one small detail in your post (it was reactor 3 that had the MOX fuel), you're dead on in your observations.
originally posted by: muzzleflash
All reactors should be "retired". The future is obvious on this issue.
It's not worth the inevitable, the risks are significant.
People are destructively selfish and care more about today's electricty than our great grand childrens ecosystem. The trade off isn't acceptable.
Excellent comment muzzle I agree 100%.
It's time to pass an international agreement to shut them all down asap.
And for that gaffe I apologise. Let the record however show that the
Governments of Japan and The UNITED STATES: with a complicit media
apparatus, supressed the truth of a threat to the human race somehow
even more dangerous than anything elase in history.
That was not drama, nor intended to detract from science. In the con-
trary, science itself has been co-opted by politics... alway to the detriment
of the former.
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: Realtruth
Excellent comment muzzle I agree 100%.
It's time to pass an international agreement to shut them all down asap.
This is straying off topic, but there are now safer nuclear reactors which use thorium. They do not leave radioactive waste. Since you appear to enjoy using the internet, you need to realize that the servers which make the internet possible require much more juice than any alternative energy source can provide. Unless you want to continue to rely on natural gas, or go back to burning coal (which actually puts more radioactivity into the air than nuclear power plants), then nuclear power should be developed further, not outlawed.
Q:
If a nuclear reactor is going super critical or loses cooling why can't you freeze the uranium core with liquid nitrogen stopping the splitting of atoms???
- Will (age 32)
Indianapolis,in
A:
The processes inside the nuclei involve very high energies, much higher than those reached at normal temperatures. From the point of view of those radioactive nuclei, the temperature of liquid nitrogen or of liquid water are both effectively zero. The decays occur via quantum tunneling, not thermal activation. So you can't freeze the process to a halt.