Funny safety joke 4

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   GRLCowan Posted 12:40 pm
   16 Jul 2007

   The punchline ...is that the "radioactive waste" was cooling pool water, less radioactive than human flesh.
   Remember SSN San Francisco's seamount crash, where, as in this case, the nuclear power plant suffered no harm and did none, but in that case it also saved all the survivors. Nuclear reactors are not treacherous, and do not become so when roughly shaken.
   Plus they don't hurt the environment, and their fuel is inexhaustible and exceedingly inexpensive. Bad news to oil and gas interests, and, soon, to coal interests; good news to the rest of us.
   --- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen-energy fan
   
   Oxygen expands around boron fire, car goes

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   GRLCowan Posted 11:01 am
   19 Jul 2007

   Leakage to air ...is reported by TEPCO to have been 4,400 times greater than the leakage to the sea in terms of becquerels (which they abbreviate Bq). 4 times 10^8 Bq, they say. We Support Lee compares this to a thyroid patient's dose of 2.4 times 10^8 Bq, and links this, which mentions fixed doses of 2.4 times 10^8 Bq and 3.5 times 10^8 Bq.
   --- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
   
   Oxygen expands around boron fire, car goes --
   
   http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/boron_blast.html

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   Nucbuddy Posted 4:42 pm
   20 Jul 2007

   nHow does that story relate to safety, or any lack thereof, Robert?

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   JMG Posted 5:17 pm
   20 Jul 2007

   Peril or saviorI laughed when I read this:
   Remember SSN San Francisco's seamount crash, where, as in this case, the nuclear power plant suffered no harm and did none, but in that case it also saved all the survivors. Nuclear reactors are not treacherous, and do not become so when roughly shaken.
   If it weren't for the nuclear propulsion plant, that boat would never have been traveling at anything like that speed, and that collision would have been much less destructive to the hull and not threated to crack the pressure hull.
   If you want to claim that the plant saved them, then you should note the danger the plant created by making it possible to embark on a high-speed transit (which is, for all intents and purposes, like getting a bus onto the highway and then completely blacking out the windows and navigating strictly by using your handy-dandy AAA road maps).
   
   Save the world: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% annually.

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