Chattering masses

It's a bit difficult to say that when the problems aren't resolved
yet.

 

I suppose we could continue to have thousands of people killed every
year[1] while digging coal out of the ground.

[1] A couple of thousand a year in China alone, IIRC.

 

I know that. You know that. It matters not at all. That's only miners not
minors.

 

Who knows? There are people working in the plant. My next door
neighbor was in the military in the Ukraine when Chernobyl happened.
He was part of the clean-up crew. He's still alive, but he's had
serious health problems ever since. Not a nice thing.

 

I agree with this. I really don't see why, in times of emergency that
wrinklies who volunteer shouldn't be top of the selection list.

 

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Really? As in the crews who had to go in and shovel graphite and fuel back
into a big 'ole before they covered the mess up.

 

I'm not certain what exactly he did. He doesn't like to talk about it
much, but it in the plant itself.

 

Chernoble is a case in point.
One side says 50. The other 1000000

 

We've only got six "life" funds, but the biggest has around £60bn of
equities in it. Add in additional exotic vehicles, and unitised funds,
REITs, derivatives, etc, and it gets to be a bit of a habdful.

Big fund had lightly in excess of fourteen thousand disposals in 2010.

Heh. We don't "do" tapering,either, still stick to old 82 and 85
pools, with good old fashioned indexation. Budget day '65 stuff is
lumped in with the 82 holdings.

When we acquired a well-known porridgeland mutual in 1997, all their
CGT stuff was still kept manually, so we were forced to a: check it up
to take on date, and then b: manually load the balances on to our
system. Luckily, overtime was still paid in those far-off days.

 

I've seen it mentioned once, but in an explanation of why it couldn't
happen due to the containment vessel design. Don't think it was this article
though, naturally enough in the Torygraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...reactor-before-radioactive-leak-or-worse.html

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

I'd volunteer for a one-way mission to Mars, and I'm not even as
wrinkly as gold-cow.

Chap at PSI volunteered to do a very hot welding job, after a
little accident with beam-steering[1]. After several months' training
he stuck himself in a vacuum chamber, did a 30-second welding job on the
hole in the wall, and retired for life on a good pension due to dose taken.

[1] When they fired up the accelerator for the first time after annual
maintenance, one of the bending magnets had been wired up to the wrong
polarity. Unfortunately the radiation monitors had been left at the
levels set for the end of the previous year, so they didn't trip with beam
current some 40 times less. But 600 MeV x 60 uA is still 36 kW in a
millimetre-sized beam on an aluminium wall, so it only took a few seconds
to burn a hole through the chamber. Just long enough to say, "Wo zum Fick
hat der Strahl weg?"

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

True, however there are medical maps for the areas around the open pit
mines in Appalachia that show much heightened incidence of certain
diseases over long periods of time. You may not be able to prove any
one case, but any trend should become obvious.

 

Nope. All those guys died. They were given protection suits that they
were told would shield them. They might as well have given them tissue
paper.

Fraser

 

Hopefully not the same ones who said last Friday that the Japanese
reactors were perfectly safe. Until, of course, the hydrogen explosions.

Fraser

 

Of course not. They will be the same engineers who design Renault electrics.

 

Point of order.
Up to a very significant point of external Beta/Gamma radiation some people
will survive if you ensure they don't ingest any radioactive toxins. So it
wasn't entirely bogus.
Obviously past a certain point the central nervous system and blood
chemistry will be fucked by ionising radiation but you don't know where that
is until you get there IYSWIM

 

Over the years Renault has had a bit of a chequered history.

Ambulances that spontaneously burst into flames, cars with wheels that shear
off and more recently dodgy bonnet catches that fly open and smash the
windscreen.............. just the few I can remember.

 

And all of them in Japan?

 

I had one Renault for three years:
Automatic handbrakes that don't release reliably when you want to drive off.
Drive-by-wire throttles that cut the engine just when you need it most.
ECUs that randomly turn on the foglights while the car is parked.
Then there's the design feature that you can't apply the handbrake
or turn off the engine above ~6mph. Not that you would notice if the
throttle jammed open with such a gutless engine.

 

Bwahaha

Even funnier that iodine tablets etc are selling out..... in the USA.