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FBaggins

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Tue Nov 19, 2013, 01:27 PM
Nov 2013

Last edited Tue Nov 19, 2013, 01:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Bananas' errors were definitive statements of physical principles that in most cases were simply wrong independent of scenario - absent an incredibly unlikely occurrence like someone hanging a giant gamma reflecting grazing mirror 15,000 feet over Fukushima.

The scenario that you insist RC account for requires that unlikely scenario. The premise of your question presupposes that the following statement is accurate.

Since fire and smoke are the anticipated dispersal mechanisms for contaminated particulate pollution

They most certainly are not. They may be imagined by the wildest anti-nuke still grasping at SOME way for a major death toll to still occur... but that doesn't make them anticipated or even rational.

Pam is no more required to imagine incredibly rare exceptions to the plain science (nor RC to accept the "fission restarting at any moment now" scenarios) than I was required to accept the nonsensical claims in March of 2011 that Fukushima was still critical because spontaneous fission counts.

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TEPCO risks all at Fukushima [View all] unhappycamper Nov 2013 OP
We can hope madokie Nov 2013 #1
The quote from the article that makes you go WTF! Lochloosa Nov 2013 #2
Unless she has a starship and an Earthlike planet to fly to... caraher Nov 2013 #8
Hyperbole to make a point pscot Nov 2013 #12
Seems closer to a non sequitur than hyperbole caraher Nov 2013 #13
she probably means moving them deep into the southern hemisphere, like Australia. n/t CRH Nov 2013 #16
If I understand what the "worst case scenario" involves, I'm not sure any place will be safe. Lochloosa Nov 2013 #17
The Forgotten Legacy of the Banqiao Dam Collapse RC Nov 2013 #3
It's not about how many have been killed to date. It's about the catastrophic consequences of a magical thyme Nov 2013 #4
171,000 people dead is not a catastrophic consequence? RC Nov 2013 #6
People can't care about a disaster unless it is the greatest of all time? kristopher Nov 2013 #7
Denigrating the messenger, instead of disproving the facts I provided? RC Nov 2013 #9
ROFLMAO kristopher Nov 2013 #11
Maybe to you it sounds dumb. But what was wrong with what I stated? RC Nov 2013 #14
What's wrong? Aside from the point that you don't understand the meaning of 'values'? kristopher Nov 2013 #15
No, radiation does NOT go in a straight line. bananas Nov 2013 #18
You are trying to confuse the issue. RC Nov 2013 #19
1.1 The Skyshine Problem bananas Nov 2013 #21
google "site:nrc.gov skyshine" - get "About 1,960 results" bananas Nov 2013 #23
Try reading them. FBaggins Nov 2013 #25
How is that any less relevant kristopher Nov 2013 #26
Simple FBaggins Nov 2013 #28
I didn't make any errors. bananas Nov 2013 #32
Don't be silly... Of course you did FBaggins Nov 2013 #34
SAME MISTAKE - basically NOT UNDERSTANDING the Physics. PamW Nov 2013 #36
100% WRONG!!! PamW Nov 2013 #20
1.1 The Skyshine Problem bananas Nov 2013 #22
Sorry... no. FBaggins Nov 2013 #24
More STUPIDITY from Arnie Gunderson???? PamW Nov 2013 #27
Well... to be fair to Arnie... FBaggins Nov 2013 #29
PamW is 100% WRONG!!! bananas Nov 2013 #30
Of course it was Arnie FBaggins Nov 2013 #31
No, it was by Michael S. Bassett, and it was written in the 1980's. bananas Nov 2013 #33
Lol... oh come on. FBaggins Nov 2013 #35
Physicists support nuclear power by 98% PamW Nov 2013 #37
I did not say that 170,000 is not a catastrophe. magical thyme Nov 2013 #10
They haven't had it right so far, they had better be right now. Where are these rods going? marble falls Nov 2013 #5
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