1 posted on
04/21/2004 4:11:04 PM PDT by
knak
To: knak
Calling Homer Simpson.
2 posted on
04/21/2004 4:14:17 PM PDT by
boomop1
To: knak; hchutch
OK, check between the couch cushions...
3 posted on
04/21/2004 4:15:34 PM PDT by
Poohbah
(Darkdrake Lives!)
To: knak
I bought this cool pencil in New England last week that glows green. I doubt it's related.
5 posted on
04/21/2004 4:16:36 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: knak
Vermont Yankee was not anywhere near the top of Howard Dean's 'todo' list.
There have been any number of problems there dating well back into his multiple terms as governor
6 posted on
04/21/2004 4:16:45 PM PDT by
Vermonter
To: knak
"We do not think there is a threat to the public at this point...."
Whew! I sure do feel more comforted. Can we go back to sleep now?
[end sarcasm]
7 posted on
04/21/2004 4:17:50 PM PDT by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: knak
"Engineers were searching the spent fuel pool at the Vermont Yankee plant for the small rods, which were removed from the reactor in 1979."Removed from the reactor in 1979. When is the last time they knew where these rods were? 1979.
8 posted on
04/21/2004 4:18:00 PM PDT by
Spunky
("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
To: knak
Crap, this will be all over that Fish Wrap Brattleboro Reformer tomorrow with all the crunchies screaming bloody murder on the editorial page.
There are more whacked out hippies around here than any place I've ever seen...except maybe Putney.
Take a ride thru town and all of them, I mean ALL of them are wearing curtains!
To: knak
Heeyawoow Uranium
12 posted on
04/21/2004 4:42:21 PM PDT by
VRWC For Truth
(3% votes Nader vs 1% purity on the right. Purity is the losing strategy right from the get-go.)
To: knak
My mom was right, idiots DO run the world.
15 posted on
04/21/2004 4:55:32 PM PDT by
ChocChipCookie
(If we had some eggs, we could have bacon and eggs if we had some bacon. --unknown Freeper)
To: knak
One thing to consider:
It would be very difficult for someone to steal a spent fuel rod. Why? The radiation level is very high, even as much as 100,000 REM per hour next to the rod.
Remember the LD-50/30 for humans is about 500 REM. The LD-50/7 (days) is about 1000 REM. For effective doses over 5000 REM, the mean survival time is in the matter of hours, and the survival time decreases with increasing dose. In fact, for doses over 5000 REM, the individual is almost instantly incapacitated.
Without shielded remote handling equipment and a heavily shielded cask, the thief would not survive the attempt to steal the fuel rod.
16 posted on
04/21/2004 5:12:41 PM PDT by
punster
(q)
To: knak
Hmm...we were in Brattleboro last month, at the Motel 6 just across the road from Vermont Yankee, and the hotel was FULL of out of staters there to do maintenance work on the plant during it's shutdown phase...
17 posted on
04/21/2004 5:21:59 PM PDT by
Preech1
(Eliminate all possibilities...whatever is left must be the answer, no matter how improbable.)
To: knak
Vermont Yankee is located in the southeastern town of Vernon, on the border with Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Senator Kerry, what did you know and when did you know about this quagmire?
To: knak
Someone told Howard Dean that they "were just like gerbils" and he stuck them up his......
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