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Liquified Petroleum Gas Explosion – Milford, Texas

ByRod Adams

…e with a Halide purger for each section? Mitch donb says gas causes “mild” deaths. “Mild deaths“. That’s a new one! So then all those non-injuries at Fukushima should rightly be of zero concern to environmentalists, right? donb says Nuclear accidents cause much more severe death A LNG tank can cause much more severe deaths. Still here. A oil tank explosion can and HAS cause much more severe deaths. Still here. A burst dam can and HAS caused much m…

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How Deadly is Plutonium?

ByRod Adams

…rotected. It is, of course, possible that the differences between expected deaths and actual deaths is just a statistical aberration. With small sample sizes, it is likely that large variations in mortality rate will be seen. It has to be considered important, however, to know that at least 22 men have been able to live more than 40 years after ingesting “the most toxic substance known to man.” It should make one question the motives and accuracy…

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Sensible recommendation: 100 mSv/month – As High As Relatively Safe

ByRod Adams

…r such fear related deaths. Even if, somewhat unfairly, those fear related deaths are added to Fukushima Daiichi, it is still much safer than 13000 air pollution deaths from the coal option. cyril r Source for deaths per TWh: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/lifetime-deaths-per-twh-from-energy.html cyril r The Fukushima containments had venting valves and pipes installed, and these were used. The problems with it are as follows: 1. It is fully man…

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Nuclear highlights of Rick Perry’s confirmation hearing plus a suggested action

ByRod Adams

…works out to on the order of $10 billion per life saved. OK, I know, using Fukushima‘s 100 deaths for the lives saved may not be valid. How many meltdowns would we have had if we had not spent that $1 trillion? Even if you assume that 10 such meltdowns have been avoided (i.e., that we would have had 11 Fukushima events instead of one), it would work out to on the order of $1 billion per life saved, i.e., 100 times the govt. agencies’ ~$10 million…

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Enormous differences between Southern Co & Solyndra

ByRod Adams

…and settling. On the flip side, it doesn’t appear that the containments at Fukushima accomplished much. Also, CR is just one plant, vs. three at Fukushima, and PWRs are, if anything, better than old BWRs in these regards, with a higher containment volume, etc… What I’m saying is that even with the containment in its current state, the worse possible release at CR would probably be far LESS than that which occurred at Fukushima. Furthermore, we h…

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Does radiation really cause cancer? Conversation among professionals

ByRod Adams

…ow-up study accumulated 736,942 person-years at risk and ascertained 6,005 deaths, including 956 cancer deaths and 4,525 non-cancer disease deaths. Mean cumulative radiation doses from natural radiation in the HBR and control area residents were 84.8 mGy and 21.6 mGy, respectively. Mortality due to leukemia (15 deaths) or cancer excluding leukemia (941 deaths) was not related to cumulative radiation dose. The excess relative risk (ERR) Gy−1 of can…

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Open letter to antinuclear groups claiming to be “environmental”

ByGuest Author

…ell. A list of points: I think you are telling us that monitoring for bird deaths at David-Besse was cancelled in 1979 (not that bird deaths were zero). “No other plant than Davis-Besse has had any identified problem.” How do you know this? For Limerick, yes, the report is for a two year period during the plant construction phase. No other numbers are provided for any other years in the cited reference. This is not the same as zero bird deaths wer…

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Spreading Calm, Certainty, and Reassurance About Nuclear Energy (counteracting focused FUD)

ByRod Adams

…report has been six years in the making, so it presumably does not include Fukushima lessons learned. As Rod describes, Fukushima Daiichi should be a text book case for studying how much radioactivity is actually released when 1) the core is damaged, 2) the reactor pressure vessel is breached, and 3) the containment is also breached. It would be nice if the public learns the real risks and consequences of a nuclear accident. But the recent decisio…

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UCS is guilty of harming humans by reinforcing fear mongering

ByRod Adams

…at is only a drop in the bucket compared to the number who are going after Fukushima (or more truthfully who are using Fukushima because they hate nuclear power in general). Basically people are robbing them of their power of choice because their agenda against nuclear power is more important to them. So basically in conclusion I have difficulty trusting that anti nuclear people have good intentions. Maybe I’m wrong and you truly think the world w…

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Robert Stone talks with Michael Moore at the Traverse City Film Festival

ByRod Adams

…w.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs313/en/index.html – 2 million premature deaths mostly in developing countries from indoor air pollution – 1.3 million deaths worldwide per year from urban outdoor air pollution Not all of that urban outdoor pollution comes from fossil fuel, however it very strongly impact the two countries where urban outdoor pollution is the most damaging, China and India. Very fortunately those two countries have understood wha…

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Lorenzini rebuts Sovacool’s defense of nuclear bird kill paper as weak

ByGuest Author

…ow most common. We could therefore assign a very low value – say 0.01 bird deaths/GWh – to the mining and milling phase. The weighting of direct power plant bird deaths bears some scrutiny also. Weighting a single bad year equally against an extended study mischaracterizes the data. So the two extended studies should have extra weight based on length of the study, and ignoring the misassigned Crystal River bird kill, the actual average operating b…

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No more collective dose!

ByGuest Author

…ne or honest takes the Yablokov study seriously. To date, actual confirmed deaths and projected deaths (WHO and Tjernobyl forum) “only” differ by an order of magnitude, where the LNT projections come out on top. Radiation does not cause hereditary effects, it is a myth, spontaneous abortion yes (if death could be considered a hereditary condition?)… KitemanSA Well said! Matte @Bas “Or to the original Bavarian study report.” I think I may have se…

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