Rattle wrote:
] ] Last February, Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant
] ] shut down after workers discovered that boric acid had
] ] eaten away at 70 pounds of steel, leaving a 6-by-5-inch
] ] hole in its reactor head. Only a thin, 3/8-inch strip of
] ] stainless steel lining protected the reactor from
] ] rupturing and causing what could have been the most
] ] devastating nuclear accident since Three Mile Island.
]
] This scares the hell out of me. I'm currently living about 2
] miles away from Oyster Creek Nuclear in Jersey. Its been
] operating now for about 15 years pass its design lifetime.
] There was a stink a few years ago when it was discovered that
] its dry well was rusting.
]
] They don't seem too on top of their shit. Every so often (at
] least three times now) they mess up the water mix in the
] stream that cools it down, the stream's temp rises to about
] 110F, and several hundred thousand dead fish magicly appear.
]
] Hope the sucker dosen't melt down on us. Well, at least they
] were nice enough to give us KI pills.. I don't count on those
] to do any good in the event of an accident.

I got my KI pills in the mail. I laughed at them, though.. I figure I've got bigger problems to worry about than my nuke plant melting down or getting bombed.. there's far more interesting terrorist targets around here... I've got the sub base, the rt 95 bridge that goes over the river to the sub base (bomb that bridge and no subs are going out to sea), my own place of employment (bomb that and no subs will get built for a while).. Pfizer (which tends to explode on its own every so often), Dow chemical, and a tank farm, all within five miles of me. I'm not too worried about Millstone melting down. They send us a magazine quarterly, telling us all how safe it is. Yet, on the back cover is the evacuation route we're supposed to take.

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