HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
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Neither were nuclear explosions. In fact if you would take the time
to check three Mile Island was a leak.


Some people are nit-pickin' here.

The original comment sorta implied a nuke explosion, like a bomb.
That's simply not the case and can't happen in a nuclear power plant,
for a number of reasons.

But, indeed, there may have been steam containment explosions or
piping as the system ran away with it's self.

Eisboch


I have the distinct honor of living about equidistant from a coal plant
east of here and a nuke plant south of here. Neither causes me any great
concern, though I do think more about catastrophe at the nuke plant.

One of the problems concomitant with a disaster at a nuke plant is that
there is no real way to get out of the way of radiation. That's probably
true near most nuke plants. There may be roads, and good ones, but
population density is such that evacuations would more closely resemble
gridlock.

I remember after TMI a friend who worked for a science consulting
company was the lead investigator on federal government evac plans for
areas around nuke facilities. We were both sailors in those days, and he
told me about a part of the plans that based the "best" ways to evac an
area around traditional and historial prevailing wind patterns. We both
thought that was hysterical, since winds can shift at any time, and
suddenly.

That was the point of my original post. With the rupture of a container
of Carbon Dioxide gas there is not an option for evacuation, you would
not even know there was a problem "until you wake up dead". With a
radiation release you can be evacuated and if exposed possibly recover.

As I originally said I would rather live next to a nuclear power plant
than a coal fired plant with hundreds of tons of stored carbon dioxide.