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President Obama: We have emission free fuels available NOW.

ByRod Adams

…ly has to destroy a hundred NPP’s (nearby big cities) in such a way that a Chernobyl/Fukushima scenario unfolds. Let’s see, what would it take to do that? 1.  Creating a Chernobyl scenario requires (a) replacing the water-moderated reactor with an RMBK, (b) removing the containment building, then (c) operating the reactor in a positive-reactivity coefficient regime such that the power surges to 100x spec and ruptures the coolant tubes from steam e…

Romance of Radium – How did our relationship with radioactive material sour?
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Romance of Radium – How did our relationship with radioactive material sour?

ByRod Adams

…e, in other words one must keep one’s perspective. The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986 was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed. And if not the real cause, then at least the proximate one. The price of the catastrophe was overwhelming, not only in…

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More accurate headline would be “Fukushima Containment Worked”

ByRod Adams

…d in the accident, the rated power is 2812 MWe, almost three times that of Chernobyl. Each of those three containments, on average, released about 3% of what the one reactor at Chernobyl did. That’s two orders of magnitude less, and you want to claim that the containments did not accomplish anything at all?! The containments did what they were designed to do, but this was a beyond design basis event. I think that it’s a little harsh to be complain…

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The battle for the atom is heating up again

ByRod Adams

…thousands, to holiday in a place rather more radioactive than most of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. George Carty I wonder if the Chernobyl exclusion is based on projections of radiation dosage levels, rather than actual measurements. Perhaps we can now use UAVs (not available in the late ’80s, even if the Soviets would let us use them) to measure radioactivity in all parts of the Chernobyl region, so that the exclusion zone can be pared down to o…

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Former NRC counsel attacks quoted source used in “Radiation isn’t the Real Risk”

ByRod Adams

…There is a recent article in Current Biology that describes the effect of Chernobyl radiation on large mammal populations. http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00988-4 Here’s a quote from the introduction: In contrast, our long-term empirical data showed no evidence of a negative influence of radiation on mammal abundance. Relative abundances of elk, roe deer, red deer and wild boar within the Chernobyl exclusion zone are si…

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Healthy doses of radiation

ByRod Adams

…ort of April 2006 Greeeenpeace calculated six million cancer deaths due to Chernobyl event. garyn I just saw this on the Smithsonian site: “Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly It wasn’t just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi” And yet from what I have also read, some of those very same organisms are capable of withstanding some incred…

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Debunking the Fukushima Spent Fuel Fable

ByRod Adams

…y big external event to get where we are now, unlike Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, which whose causes were entirely internal to the plant. The lessons we learned from Three Mile Island, and, to a lesser degree, Chernobyl, (the West already knew the design was inherently unstable) were quite different because the initiating causes were different. The fundamental issue that needs to be addressed is prolonged station blackout. Already, we’ve learn…

It’s too easy to permanently close a nuclear power plant in the United States

ByRod Adams

…d have to be in place. Kevin Krause @BasG Your mentioning of Fukishima and Chernobyl sheds some light on where you are coming from. Chernobyl was being intentionally operated outside of its normal design envelope. More like a stunt plane than a regular airliner. How often do stunt planes crash at air shows? It seems like I hear about them all the time. Similarly Fukishima experienced a beyond design basis earthquake and tidal wave. It handled the…

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Tale of two Chinas – One surging forward, one retreating

ByRod Adams

…W.Berlin showing an increase of Down from ~3 cases towards 12 cases after Chernobyl; and millions of newborn in W. Europe after Chernobyl (sex-ratio in newborn increased). Statistical science allows to calculate the chance that a found effect is coincidence. That chance is expressed by the value of P: P<0.05 implies 5% chance that the shown effect is coincidence P<0.001% implies 0.1% chance that it is coincidence. The solid study in Bavaria that…

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Galen Winsor asks – Who owns the plutonium? How much is it worth?

ByRod Adams

…/WHO and many other scientist groups regarding the human damage created by Chernobyl… It implies e.g. that the raised numbers of extra stillbirths (and congenital malformation and Down and …) due to Chernobyl do not exist in IAEA/WHO reports! Even while the study is rock-solid and published in a respectable scientific journal. Same with many other studies. Goiana Following your statistics:lifetime odds for the US of dying from cancer as “1 in…

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Let the people of Fukushima go home and get back to work

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…nsense! Take a look at this graph. It shows the “worldwide and local (near Chernobyl and in areas of high natural radiation) average annual radiation doses from natural and man-made sources” based on data published by UNSCEAR. As you can see, the worldwide exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl accident is significantly less than that from nuclear weapons testing in the early sixties. Now consider that the amount of radiation released from Fukus…

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The Atomic Show #062 – Recording and discussing John Edwards talk of 19 June 2007

ByRod Adams

…pers on Chernobyl in the Summer of 2010, here are a couple of links: Observations on Chernobyl After 25 Years of Radiophobia http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Summer_2010/Observations_Chernobyl.pdf Belarus to Repopulate Chernobyl Exclusion Zone http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Chernobyl_repopulation.pdf Ciao, Luca Futuro Nucleare Milan, Italy…

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