Peter Lang | April 18, 2015 at 9:39 pm |
PA,
I agree with most, but I think you need to change your explanation of this part:I agree with most, but I think you need to change your explanation of this part:
For the US there really isn’t any worry. Even if India blows up a plant it will have negligible impact on the US. The radioactivity almost has to go around the world once to get to Britain. or Europe so they are ok, and the Japanese have gotten used to radioactivity by now.
Well, gee. A couple of issues.
1. While the Indians worry me it is almost impossible to slag reactors aka Fukushima without God’s help. I may have credited Indians with more destructive potential than they actually have. I’ll see if I can find out enough reactor details to place an upper limit on their destructive potential.
2. Chernobyl and TMI are examples of problems that can be fixed by mandatory jail time or capital punishment. If you execute people for touching the safety systems on an active reactor a number of problems are solved..
What is interesting is there really hasn’t been a major reactor incident due to mechanical failure.
3. The Fukushima incident didn’t really endanger anyone but the Japanese and if they had taken iodine tablets it wouldn’t have endangered the Japanese. 98% of the radioactivity was Iodine 131 and that was gone in about 2 months. The farm crops were safe after a year. A couple of people got over 50 mS. So far nobody died from radiation but well over 15,000 died from stress.
The anti-nukers have killed far more people than the radioactivity ever will and should be charged with many thousands of cases of involuntary manslaughter, with sentences to be served consecutively.
The way to stop the scaremongering is with stiff jail sentences.