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To: LoicW
Let's look at the details in footnote 18.

>https://psmag.com/environment/50-years-after-nuclear-meltdown-3510<

There are 3 telling statement:

"In fact, from July 12 through July 26, 1959, an unknown amount of radioactive gases were intentionally vented to prevent the Sodium Reactor Experiment from overheating and exploding."

"We know there was a fuel meltdown," said William Taylor, the current spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy. "We don't know how much [radiation] or if any was released."

"According to an analysis of a five-year study by a panel of independent scientists convened years after the incident, the SRE accident spit out up to 459 times the amount of radiation released during the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island."

This is important because the TMI incident was also a big nothing! And 459 X 0 = 0.

The point is that just because the sodium coolant leaked and caught fire, doesn't mean the fissile material leaked.

It may indeed have melted, but that doesn't mean it was released.

The "radioactive gases" they refer to were from a secondary source, that of the coolant sodium.

9 posted on 11/15/2018 9:37:26 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

Never mind that radio active grass and brush burning up. Nothing to see here...


11 posted on 11/17/2018 3:09:48 PM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport illegal aliens. Americans demand those jobs back! MAGA!)
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