Instant Death
August 4th 2011 00:01
One hears that pools of death lurk in the halls of Fukishima. Radiation at levels 10,000 times normal that could kill in minutes can still be found in the nuclear plant.
It does give a die hard person, who is for using all sources of power, all the time some pause.
But then again, if the French can manage nuclear power without frying themselves how hard can it be?
Anyone who has ever been between Albuquerque and Las Cruces, New Mexico has indeed been in the middle of nowhere. It is too bad that we cannot put all our power generating capacity–especially the nuclear kind–in such places and send the power out by transmission lines, hydrogen trucks or even microwave links.
The entire nation of Japan is geologically unstable so nuclear power is a risky proposition there.
When is the last time you heard of an earthquake in New Mexico? And even if there was one, most of the state is in the middle of nowhere.
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Old ladies with dosimeters. Even in Japan, they can’t trust their government to tell them the truth, so ordinary people in Japan have taken to measuring the ambient radiation themselves and complaining to their government when they see trouble.
If we ever want to get rid of stuff like illegal drugs we will have to do a similar thing here. We will set up private networks of chemical sniffers to sniff out the path ways that the feds are using to let drugs into the United States. Yes, I said the feds. Surely you have realized that somebody in authority must be on the take to let all the drugs in and make sure only people who are not on the “right side” get busted when the drug busts go down. The fact that drugs get into two of the most locked down institutions in our nation–schools and prisons–proves that several people in officialdom are taking bribes from drug lords.
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What is a sievert? Well apparently it measures a gray. Yeah. That was helpful. Well sieverts are international units of radiation absorption.
Since we had a rad, a rem and a roentgen, why the hell do we need another way to measure radiation? I think the real reason is so everyone involved in radiation studies can get credit. Curies anyone? But I suppose the scientists would point out that sieverts relate particularly to the effects of biological exposure to radiation while a number of the other units talk about ionizing particles and energy they give off.
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