On 2011-03-14, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:22:08 -0400, John
wrote:

Ignoramus858 wrote:
On 2011-03-14, Larry wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:04:18 -0500, Ignoramus858
wrote:

One more thing.

They are pumping seawater into the reactor.

I am smart enough to figure out that seawater comes from the sea.

But where does it go TO after it comes out of the reactor?

And are they cooling the inside of the reactor, or outside of this
shell?

That's just dumb. Let it melt. It's not going anywhere. Adding water
just increases the chance of radioactive steam release.

P.S: I forgot to say "Congrats" on having found and removed your
tumor. That's gotta be scary as hell.


Thanks. I lucked out big time. I am still not certain if Chernobyl is
to blame.

i

One of the workers at the local Nuke plant would set off the radiation
detector that they scan everyone with when they enter the plant. Come
to find out he took a vacation in Europe and brought back some food
products that he was consuming. The products had enough radiation to
set off the alarms.

Scary, but read up on naturally radioactive places and find that their
incidences of cancer are lower than the rest of society's. I guess
that living with a higher than normal rad count beefs up your immune
system.

Speaking of alarms, my BS alarm went off and I was astounded to read
in my newspaper a few years ago about a local guy in Medford, OR who
set off a fire truck's radiation alarm as he passed by the truck in
his car. They chased him down (while the police caught up to them) and
he told them he had just had nuclear chemo at the local hospital. Them
rad monitor thangs be SENSITIVE! No wonder they tell you to stay away
from your partner and all kids for a week after nuke chemo.


Larry, radiation has effects that are specific to where it is
applied. It is one thing to get a dose X from backgroud radiation,
spread over the entire body. It it quite another thing to get the same
dose from radioactive iodine, localized in a one ounce organ like
thyroid.

i