On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:07:58 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:
>Per Keith Willshaw:
>>> I've been close to the nuclear waste on site at a nuclear power
>>> plant and I've worked around the storage ponds for coal-fired
>>> plant waste; I'd much rather be around the nuclear waste.
>>>
>>
>>low level waste sure, high level waste would kill you rather quickly.
>
>
>I once heard one of the engineers at a nearby nuclear plant (where four other
>engineers died of malignant melanoma during the years I worked for the parent
>company) say that there are metal parts in that reactor that are so radioactive
>that, if somebody put one of them at the end of a football field and you started
>at the other end of the field running straight at it as fast as you could run
>that you'd never make it.
Hm. Sounds pretty apocryphal to me.
>Point is that some of the waste from nuclear reactors is very nasty stuff.
If you take it out of the fuel elements and store it in a
self-storage place, yeah.
At which plant did the four engineers die of melanoma, and how
was the cause pinned down to the radioactivity in the plant? Or
could it be the plant was in sunny Florida?
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