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Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
All that's needed is a tiny spark. The capacitor doesn't do the damage; the explosion it sets off does. One tank car would be equal to 40 or 50 Ryder truck bombs used in the Oklahoma City bombing. Inspection of tank cars is very spotty. A lot stuff is smuggled across the Mexican border this way. There would be a "small" bay* where San Onofre is should a stunt like this be pulled off. The result would be a very dirty bomb and a large area of fallout. The fallout from the waste itself would have a half-life of many, many thousands of years, while the sodium itself would have a very short half-life. One thing about such a dirty bomb is that nobody could predict the results with any kind of accuracy. The problem here is that we would not be dealing with a "regular" meltdown, but the blasting of nuclear waste into the air, resulting it a very large plume of radioactive dust in addition to the deposition of heavier particles of large amounts of highly radioactive materials closer to the facility. So "studying" nuclear plant meltdowns and leaks (does this fact cause pause?) just might be more misleading than revealing. And, is this not the sort of thing that one would be better off studying via sound theory rather than empirical noodling? Homo sapiens "rides" again--right for the cliff. "Sapiens," indeed! (Maybe we can't all be trumps, but nothing keeps us from being chumps.) The potential consequences far outweigh the cost of at least burying the stuff out of reach of nutcases like McVeigh and Nichols. Not to mention foreign terrorists, who are possibly more skilled at their craft than our own home-grown nutcases. As far as I know, the government agency whistle-blowers who divulged this possibility have disappeared—at least I haven’t heard anything else about them. But they were “disciplined.” See next post for footnote.— September 18, 2015 10:22 p.m.
Good Jobs First attacks corporate welfare
Grrrrrr— September 18, 2015 9:03 p.m.
BBG Communications greases senator's palm
Military kids have long been targets of all kinds of sleaze-bags, including jewlers and car and furniture dealers, which tend to lead the pack of jackals (apologies to real jackals), and scum-suckin' pigs (apologies to real pigs).— September 18, 2015 9 p.m.
Ponzi schemer Sunil Sharma gets 33 months
Defeat of de(Donald)duct went over defence before detail.— September 17, 2015 8:44 a.m.
Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
"A map showed how much of Southern California, particularly San Diego's North County, would be affected by a similar disaster." --Don Bauder 1. Presumably based on a 20-mile radius? 2. What scientific evidence supports this presumption? 3. How long will the contamination remain dangerous to life? 4. What variables are likely to cause deviations from the 20-mile radius" 5. Is there any way that the statement is likely to distort the reality? For example, what might happen if one or more tank cars filled with, say sodium nitrate, diesel oil, and a capacitor wired to a cell phone were to explode adjacent to the stored material?— September 17, 2015 8:19 a.m.
Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
"The California Public Utilities Commission has long been corrupt . . ." --Don Bauder 1. Who is in jail? 2. Who should be in jail? 3. Who has been charged? 4. If not, why not? Tw— September 17, 2015 8:08 a.m.
Supes want San Onofre waste dump removed
Are you insinuating that Homo sapiens may be the most unwise of the species on earth?— September 17, 2015 8:03 a.m.
Good Jobs First attacks corporate welfare
". . . governments won’t have to disclose the names of tax subsidy recipients. And the new rules won’t require governments to reveal how much future tax revenue they will lose from agreements that are already in place." --Don Bauder Exactly what is the Constitutional foundation for keeping government actions secret?— September 17, 2015 7:59 a.m.
Ponzi schemer Sunil Sharma gets 33 months
How?— September 16, 2015 10:57 a.m.
La Jolla lipo litigation
I hope it wasn't laced with formaldehyde.— September 16, 2015 10:56 a.m.