Living near nuclear power plants

by JH 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  Valis

  little witch...Indinana is surrounded by nuclear power plants....all you need is to be within 200 miles of one and you can be affected by radiation...

  

  Does anyone remember the Devo video for It Takes A Worried Man? I love that...They were all nuclear waste worker...glowing and singing..

  It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
  I may be worried now but he won't be worried long
  Takes a worried man to sing a worried song
  I may be worried now but he won't be worried long
  
  I don't know what's goin' on in the world these days
  It seems like ev'rybody's just got ev'rything turned around
  People don't seem to care about their fellow man
  They're all just goin' for that big ice cream cone in the sky
  They haven't figured out what happens when your eyes get bigger
  Than your belly
  Like an ostrich who eats his pizza with his head stuck in the sand
  If they can't see it, it isn't there
  And you know, it really does take a worried man
  
  It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
  I may be worried now but he won't be worried long
  
  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer
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  Shakita

  I was pregnant with my first child when the "accident" happened at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in PA. I lived across the river in New Jersey, and was worrying that the wind direction would send fallout my way.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tmi/stories/chrono032889.htm

  My brother works at nuclear plants on and off, and says that he is never worried when working in them.

  Also, Amazing has posted here some very good information in the past on the safety of nuclear plants that was very informative. He seems to think there is nothing to worry about if I remember correctly.

  All said and done though, I would never choose to live next to one myself. The plants are run by human beings and human beings makes mistakes.....and then there are the terrorists.......just make sure you have your thyroid pills close by.

  Mrs. Shakita
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  WildHorses

  If terrorist strike or we have a meltdown, I will be one of the first to go. I live within 10 miles of Sharon Harris Nuclear plant.

  The lake that was created to service the plant is very beautiful though.
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  Gadget

  I remember the report on abnormalities near nuclear powerstations, but I also remeber a follow up report where they also tested possible new sites for a nuclear power stations. They could work this out because all nuclear power stations have similar requirements, ie, next to a large supply of water. They found the abnormalities were also present in sites for new powerstations, and came to the conclusion that the right conditions for a nuclear powerstation are also the conditions required for abnormalities.

  From what I remember, an H atom has + charge, and an O atom has - - charge. the addition of an H atom only requires the addition of 1 electron to balance the charge, while adding an O atom would require removing 2 electrons to balance the charge. Chaos theory says nature will always take the simpler option, so I believe heavy water is H3O, not H2O2. This also ties up with the formulae I rember when I studied this years ago, but I'd have to check my notes to confirm.

  I know how many things happen in the government installation I work in that the outside world doesn't find oput about, and I hear the nuclear instalations (Some government run) are the same. How many times do we come close to disaster without hearing about it?
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  drwtsn32

  so I believe heavy water is H3O, not H2O2.

  Heavy water does not contain an extra hydrogen atom (H30) or an extra oxygen atom (H2O2). Heavy water is made with deuterium (a heavier isotope of Hydrogen). The chemical symbol for deuterium oxide is D2O.

  And I live pretty close to a nuclear power plant. I'm not worried about it too much. Nuclear power is really safe until something happens.
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  Xander

  Amazing has posted here some very good information in the past on the safety of nuclear plants that was very informative. He seems to think there is nothing to worry about if I remember correctly

  What's interesting, too, is it's not just the safety concern.

  Coal burned in your typical coal power plants is not entirely pure. It does contain trace amounts of various radioactive materials, and given the hundres of thousands of tons of coal burned each year....there is actually more radioactive debris pumped into the atmosphere each year from coal plants than radiation emitted by the Three Mile Island accident!
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  chachasmum

  I grew up in a little place called Failsworth Manchester. The school i attended had a nuclear power plant right next to it. I have not been there since i was 15 that was 30 years ago. Ha now you know my age. My dad died of cancer at 58 so it makes me wonder if there was a connection.
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  drwtsn32

  I worked on a nuclear reservation for a while and never had any exposure to radioactivity. Granted, I didn't work inside an active nuclear reactor, but my point is those places do not spew radioactivity (unless something is broken).

  You'll get more exposure from background radiation (naturally occuring radiation that's everywhere), from the sun, and other places.
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  Realist

  even in the event of an accident it is not as dangerous as the media usually reports. in case of chernobyl it was said that 1 million workers who cleaned up the mess died afterwards. in reality only some 200 people died from accute radiation and 3000 got sick (where a link to radiation could really be established) with primarily thyroid cancer. these numbers are bad but considering that this was the largest possible accident not nearly as bad as most people think.