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To: Kevin OMalley
***And then we get to the point where I don't believe your source and it gets us nowhere. I'm going to drop this rabbit trail.

Checked out your Post #323 again, didn't see anything from the NRC that confirmed your statement:
From what I can see in the NRC’s 2004 Fact Sheet on the TMI Accident, they now acknowledge that even under NORMAL operating conditions, there are 12 deaths attributable to radiation release at nuclear plants.

You have a direct link to the NRC that says that?

***Your original post was comparing a wartime sunken carrier to the peacetime sunken Russian nuclear subs which have managed to moderate the nuclear reaction and maintain some semblance of containment.

Yeah, well your original post said mushroom cloud.

357 posted on 12/22/2004 1:00:32 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Protectionism is economic ignorance!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

From this website:
http://www.tmia.com/accident/whatswrong.html


The admission came in a correction to its 1996 relicensing regulation, which was published in the Federal Register on July 30 1996. According to the Federal Register notice, each relicensing is expected to be responsible for the release of 14,800 person-rem of radiation during its 20-year life extension. The figure includes releases from the nuclear fuel chain that supports reactor operation, as well as from the reactors themselves. The NRC calculates that this level of radiation release spread over the population will cause 12 cancer deaths per reactor.


359 posted on 12/22/2004 1:08:41 PM PST by Kevin OMalley (Kevin O'Malley)
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