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To: JSteff

Three Mile Island never suffered an event akin to the detonation of a nuke. You’re being silly.


31 posted on 05/21/2010 8:56:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
No you are being the silly one. TMI DID have air escape and DIRECT venting of radioactivity and radioactive gases. There fore it is appropriate to this (your) discussion here.

Most earth and soil nuke detonations had MUCH less. Heck the US set off several tests in Nevada, some of which were not as contained as they wanted. Most of the Midwest and some of the east got fall out from those.

Several like Bikini atoll test were done just above the atoll and were air bursts. France also did several Pacific tests, and Russia did a few in the Sakhalin islands, including IIRC, a 100 mega ton air burst. That used to be viewable online you-tube I believe, and probably still is.

To get a burst with particulate fall out you usually must get particulate matter into the air. The ones suggesting using a nuke probably are NOT thinking along the lines of our tests in Nevada/New Mexico etc... A fractional KT would barely put anything in the air. Minimal to no wave.

Aluminum foil hats NOT needed this weekend.

41 posted on 05/21/2010 9:19:01 PM PDT by JSteff ((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))
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