Other nuclear history news: AP’s Deborah Baker reports efforts to preserve the historic structures at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Other stories: Ventura County Star Anna Bakalis The panel members’ objectivity might be examined. As the map illustrates, only a few power plants are found in regions which have some earthquake risk. A study examined the cesium-137 tissue concentration of a random sample of 15 Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, captured off the coast of California four months after the Fukushima (Japan) nuclear reactor meltdown of 2011.
Currently, there are 105 operating nuclear reactors at 65 sites throughout the United States. 2.14 Cesium-137 is a waste product of nuclear reactors. Who is on the advisory panel and how credible is it? Its co-chairman, a little checking reveals, is president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, an anti-nuclear activist organization. Over one-third of the US population lives or works within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant. Did the entire fuel bundle melt? Just a bit of it? What containment, if any, was on this graphite-moderated machine? A web search finds references to a “partial meltdown” but that’s ambiguous. The story merits further, deeper digging into exactly what happened to the reactor - a small, sodium-cooled, high temperature, 20 megawatt machine - and why so little information came out at the time.
Griggs had a story anticipating the report’s release. She writes that up to 1,800 cancers may have ensued. On the Beach ( Showtime, 2000) a remake of the 1959 film. Nightbreaker (1989) On the Beach (1959) film depicting a gradually dying, post-apocalyptic world in Australia that remained after a nuclear Third World War. LA Times’s Amanda Covarrubias refers to the incident simply as a nuclear accident in her lede, but as a meltdown deeper. meltdown of a nuclear reactor (the Sodium Reactor Experiment) at the site. Miracle Mile (1988) a film about two lovers in Los Angeles leading up to a nuclear war.
The Boeing Co., which now owns the site, retorts that there is no sign that actual cancer incidence rose among plant workers, who presumably would have been most heavily exposed. A whiff of Cold War military-industrial political muscle and coverup is in the air.ĪP’s Robert Jablon calls the incident a “nuclear reactor meltdown” without equivocation, and passes on a claim that the released radioisotope could have caused 260 cancers in a 60-square-mile area around the site of the plant. On Thursday an expert advisory panel appointed by local public officials in response to community worries said the release of radioactive Iodine-131 may have been among the largest of any such incident in US history. Its very existence did not begin to emerge with any detail for 20 years. A nuclear reactor mishap at Rocketdyne test site in 1959 near Simi Valley on the border of heavily populated Los Angeles County went almost unreported at the time.
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