Posted on 01/31/2002 12:09:53 PM PST by DCBryan1
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I don't know. I have more of a mental picture of some Arab dudes plying some street druggies with a fix, getting them completely out of it and then promising them another when "the job is done."
And why is it stored on site...?
Perhaps if these non-Arabs are Moslems this would explain it. The largest Islamic countries in the world are not Arab (Pakistan and Indonesia for two).
Profiling is a disgusting demeaning practice that would only be suggest and practiced by Christians. /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm!!
Probably not, but it would still be substantial, especially factoring long-term fatalities from radiation, cancers, and birth defects. The findamental issue is that the waste pool is a much easier target to go after.
You would prefer that we sit around fat and happy, without going on a heightened alert? You have a particular reason for making it easy for the terrorists to take out a few million Americans? One would think that the crowd that scoffs at the danger would have been convinced by September 11th, but I guess we'll have to wait until they lose a friend or relative.
Well, to tell you the truth that thought did cross my mind, but he is an exception.....isn't he??
I said nothing of the sort. Don't read into things and then accuse others of your own creation.
Heres the exclusive radio interview that asks questions too hot for the news media!
too hot for the news media!
911 - TERROR IN AMERICA Part 1
911 - TERROR IN AMERICA Part 2
911 - TERROR IN AMERICA Part 3
911 - TERROR IN AMERICA Part 4
And you're full of that CRAP. You are displaying your ignorance both of the biological effects of ionizing radiation and reading comprehension. The dose estimates were total, accumulated dose for a hypothetical worst-case exposure. You simply integrate the time-dependent dose rate over exposure time to get a total dose. Since it is well-known that the TMI exposures occurred over a relatively short period, it is not invalid to use that to estimate effects from an acute dose. Non-harmful changes in biological functions such as white cell production become statistically significant at between 5 and 10 rems of whole-body exposure. The maximum hypothetical dose at the TMI plant boundary were in the tens of millirem range. Orders of magnitude below observable effects.
Now, use that same exposure to estimate latent effects. Long-term exposure studies indicate that a dose in the range of 10 to 100 millirems results in about one excess cancer death in an exposed population of a million. Now, of that same cohort group, the expected fatal cancer rate is in the range of 160,000 from non-radiation effects. Put another way, a single individual receiving an accumulated exposure in the 100 millirem range increases their fatal cancer risk by about one in one million. The best estimates of average exposure in the TMI cohort group is in the one to 10 millirem range. Adding that into the accumulated total exposure over the average liftetime of a resident of that area, adds about 0.14% to the accumulated total, using the natural background exposure in that area of the country, and excluding medical exposures, which, depending on the individual, can greatly exceed the natural expoures, and dwarf anything a person might get from the accident. So, bottom line, the total added exposure was very, very small, with correspondingly small biological effects.
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