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Jim Puplava welcomes back David Miller to the Financial Sense Newshour this week. David is CEO of Strathmore Minerals Corp and is a recognized expert in the nuclear energy field and has been seen, heard, and read in the New York Times, BBC, CNBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and Barron's. This week David discusses the mechanics of nuclear reactors, what they are designed to do, and the safeguards involved. David also discusses how the media has sensationalized the situation in Japan.
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http://financialsense.com/financial...uclear-energy-part-1-tragedy-hope-and-reality

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KevinD said:
http://financialsense.com/financial...uclear-energy-part-1-tragedy-hope-and-reality

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Well, your guy already got a few things incorrect. He said no one had died. They found two bodies of people killed by radiation yesterday.

This is a more accurate summary of what's going on:


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/science/03meltdown.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

For example, an analysis by a French energy company revealed far more about the condition of the plant’s reactors than the Japanese have ever described: water levels at the reactor cores dropping by as much as three-quarters, and temperatures in those cores soaring to nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to burn and melt the zirconium casings that protect the fuel rods.
Scientists in Europe and America also know from observing the explosions of hydrogen gas at the plant that the nuclear fuel rods had heated to very dangerous levels, and from radioactive plumes how far the rods had disintegrated.
At the same time, the evaluations also show that the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi escaped the deadliest outcomes — a complete meltdown of the plant.
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I'd tend to believe the guys in that article, before I'd believe your nuclear energy stock market investor. Scientists have a way of sticking to the truth.
 
James48843 said:
Well, your guy already got a few things incorrect. He said no one had died. They found two bodies of people killed by radiation yesterday.

This is a more accurate summary of what's going on:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/science/03meltdown.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

I'd tend to believe the guys in that article, before I'd believe your nuclear energy stock market investor. Scientists have a way of sticking to the truth.
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Thanks for actually taking the time to listen to it. That recording was released Mar 19 so...at the time nobody had died from exposure to radiation. However...tens of thousands have been killed from the tsunami.

Tsunami - 25000
Nuclear radiation - 2

The Fukushima Da-ichi plant has been leaking radioactivity since the March 11 tsunami carved a path of destruction along Japan's northeastern coast, killing as many as 25,000 people and knocking out key cooling systems that kept it from overheating. People living within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the plant have been forced to abandon their homes.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake

Every day brings some new problem at the plant, where workers have often been forced to retreat from repair efforts because of high radiation levels. On Sunday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced it had found the bodies of two workers missing since the tsunami.

Radiation, debris and explosions kept workers from finding them until Wednesday, and then the announcement was delayed several days out of respect for their families.

TEPCO officials said they believed the workers ran down to a basement to check equipment after the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that preceded the tsunami. They were there when the massive wave swept over the plant.

"It pains us to have lost these two young workers who were trying to protect the power plant amid the earthquake and tsunami," TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said in a statement.
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So did the radiation get them or was it the tsunami?
 
James48843 said:
That's a Model 710. It uses a single 'D-Cell' battery. Throw in a Duracell, and you're good.

Here is a Model 717- a few more features.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=223287216

Enjoy.
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Jim,

It figures you would find one bigger and better than mine.

The difference is that this is what the .gov issued the CD people in the small rural towns and that I own it in it's original box as it was issued to my Dad.

The D cell is the least of my problems. Thanks for over simplifying it and doing your best to make me look like I'm stupid.

The problem is the 22.5 volt bridge, plate and shell supply. Got one in your pocket? Two of the old part numbers are VS-084 and Ba-0006.
This started out somewhat whimsical as finding batteries is not the only problem. What will happen to a 50 year old tube when it has heater voltage applied to it? A 5886 if anyone cares. Where am I going to find the Cobalt-60 or Radium sources needed to calibrate it? How do I convert rads/hour to millisieverts. WTF or Who TF is severt?


Well, if nothing else, I can put on the old MOPP gear I couldn't turn in when I retired and walk around the neighborhood with the bright yellow radiation meter. That ought to get people thinking.

Bottom line: Who TF cares?

PO
 
You guys do realize that thyroid cancer, leukemia, and other fun cell mutations caused by radiation can take about 10 years to kill you, right?;)

I'm personally tired of all the Americans I work with talking about "The CNN Effect" and how sensationalized the risks of this nuclear crisis are. They talk as though they have some sort of insight into the situation that isn't being reported on in the news. Personally, I don't watch CNN, MSNBC, or any of those entertainment news channels. I read about the news in that sensationalist online rag called the Wall Street Journal, and I watch the Japanese nightly news. It is a serious crisis for the Japanese. Not so much for you if you live on the other side of the Pacific Ocean (or down in Okinawa, like me). You'll be fine. But just because you will doesn't mean all is good in the affected region.

Whoops - I just slipped off my soapbox.:embarrest:
 
PessOptimist said:
Jim,

The problem is the 22.5 volt bridge, plate and shell supply. Got one in your pocket? Two of the old part numbers are VS-084 and Ba-0006.
This started out somewhat whimsical as finding batteries is not the only problem.
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Eveready 412.

http://www.amazon.com/Energizer-Eve...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301911403&sr=1-1-catcorr

What will happen to a 50 year old tube when it has heater voltage applied to it? A 5886 if anyone cares.
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If it was never dropped, then it should still work fine. Tubes degrade from heat, not from age. And 5886 tubes were replaced with transistors in most applications by 1964 or so. You could always redesign the circuitry. Replace the 5886 tube with a transistor here.

Where am I going to find the Cobalt-60 or Radium sources needed to calibrate it?
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It's everywhere, just stick it in the rain anywhere in the rockies to the midwest today.
How do I convert rads/hour to millisieverts. WTF or Who TF is severt?
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Covert rads to rems, and rems to severts-
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q3142.html
 
 
FAB1 said:
COOL!

Its over the midwest.

I hope I get super-powers like The Torch

:mad: FLAME ON!! :mad::mad::D
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No fair, you already got the flashy-money-laser eyes, you don't get two superpowers.

Besides, I wanted to be The Torch.
 
I don't understand the scale on the right. Is light blue better than dark blue or worse than dark blue?
 
As a weather dude in a former life, I'd say the scale starts as "least amount" from the bottom. So light blue would be more than dark blue. Would be very nice to know at what hight this is and how it relates to ground level contamination. In other words, if this was created using 300mb or 250mb winds, how (and where) is this impacting the surface with contamination? This is obviously (to me anyway) a transport model. So it needs to be taken a step further to relate it to ground contamination levels. That can be done, btw. Also, is their a link to what the measured scale means?
 
It's obvious to me that this is designed to scare the crap out if anybody stupid enough to buy into it.

(ducking and running out the door to stick mail in mail boxes...) :D
 
Silverbird said:
Those were the two workers missing since before the Tsunami. The Tsunami got them (they were found inside one of the buildings that was flooded at the peak - they weren't able to get out in tme).
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So no one has died from the radiation but thats the big story... :rolleyes:

RIP 25,000... :(
 
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