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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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2 people died in 1999, in Japan.
This from the July 2007 incident:
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| "Initially, plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said there was no leak of radioactivity. Then it said there was a small leak of radioactively contaminated water. Then the size of the leak turned out to be much larger than originally reported, and the water was 50 percent more radioactive than they had first said. Then it came out that hundreds of nuclear waste barrels had fallen over, with the lids coming off dozens of them. Oh and, it was revealed that cobalt-60 and chromium-51 was released into the atmosphere from an exhaust stack." |
I'd question placing nuclear power plants in seismically active regions.
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March 1997
The state-run Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation reprocessing plant at Tokaimura, Japan, contaminated at least 35 workers with minor radiation after a fire and explosion occurred. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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The problem is the average Joe public can't distinguish between Nuclear
Power and Nuclear Bombs. Maybe never refer to the term Nuclear
Power, start calling it Alternative Electricity.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/30/874/
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:19 am Post subject: |
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2 people died in 1999, in Japan.
This from the July 2007 incident:
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| "Initially, plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said there was no leak of radioactivity. Then it said there was a small leak of radioactively contaminated water. Then the size of the leak turned out to be much larger than originally reported, and the water was 50 percent more radioactive than they had first said. Then it came out that hundreds of nuclear waste barrels had fallen over, with the lids coming off dozens of them. Oh and, it was revealed that cobalt-60 and chromium-51 was released into the atmosphere from an exhaust stack." |
I'd question placing nuclear power plants in seismically active regions.
And another:
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March 1997
The state-run Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation reprocessing plant at Tokaimura, Japan, contaminated at least 35 workers with minor radiation after a fire and explosion occurred. |
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Assuming a dangerous link between seismic activity and the safety of modern designs for nuclear power plants can be established, countries like Japan would have to import energy if the world were to go totally nuclear. France supplies other European states with imported nuclear energy.
John McCain is, I think, the only presidential candiadate to explicity endose nuclear energy expansion. Given McCain and I agree on several other crucial issues, I will vote for John McCain at this stage. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Assuming a dangerous link between seismic activity and the safety of modern designs for nuclear power plants can be established |
The July 2007 incident was a direct result of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Nuclear_leaks_after_Japan_quake_are_worse_than_first_reported
http://a4nr.org/library/failures/07.16.2007-japanquake
From memory, the 1999 event at Tokaimura, was caused by failure to adhere to manual guidelines.
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The direct cause of the criticality accident was workers putting uranyl nitrate solution containing about 16.6 kg of uranium, which exceeded the critical mass, into a precipitation tank. The tank was not designed to dissolve this type of solution and was not configured to prevent eventual criticality. Three workers were exposed to (neutron) radiation doses in excess of allowable limits, and two of these workers died; a further 119 received lesser doses of 1 mSv or greater.[1]
Dozens of emergency workers and nearby residents were hospitalised and hundreds of thousands of others were forced to remain indoors for 24 hours. |
There are nuclear power plants in South Korea, too, but they are well run, and not near any major seismic fault lines. I saw a couple of nuclear plants north of Gyeongju, on the way to Andong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea#Reactor_overview |
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