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Re: Nuclear plant incidents [was: Where is Slovenia?]
johncharlesriley 2008-Jun-17 21:25:00
I agree with Willy that the incidents with nuclear power plants do tend to get
sensationalized in the media. Perhaps this is exacerbated by the very strict incident-
reporting standards for the nuclear industry. I am reminded of an incident that occurred
about 15 years ago at a nuclear plant near where I live. This was a substantially more
serious incident, since it involved a non-trivial leak of tritium into the atmosphere. I was
asked by the local television station to come on the news as an "expert", since I am a
nuclear physicist. What I didn't know or think of was that the bastards had me blue-
screened and put this ridiculous pulsing, whirling "nuclear" thing behind me. It looked like
something out of the dumbest sci-fi movie you have ever seen. I felt like an ass when I
saw it and decided never to do anything like that again. Fortunately, I didn't say anything
TOO stupid, though I was tempted to yell "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" just for hell of it. But I
didn't have tenure yet at the university....
John
--- In #removed#, Willy Kaemena <wkaemena@...> wrote:
>
> heheh it was an internal problem of the plant which could happen and
> it is built to cope with that it has nothing to do with the
> environment around our with other countries.. again if in the
> petrochemical complex of Wien Schwechat a flange leaks and 5000
> l crude oil is contaminating the soil, then we have an incident at
> open air... but that nobody cares about...
>
> Because it is a "mysterical" nuclar driven powerplant then even if
> the gardener cuts his finger when caring the flowers is already an
> incident....
>
> That is the problem the unnecessary and wrong importance of whatever
> happens. Things could fail, pumps fails, gasket fails etc as
> long you have a backup system to cope with that, it is normal and no
> incident. There are other "incidents" in the world only ONE example:
> in New Dehli millions of 2 stroke engines are polluting the air with
> oily stinky fumes, so that you cannot breathe anymore that I call an
> daily incident but that nobody cares about.
>
> Willy
>