Simi Valley Nuclear Disaster...released up to 260 times more radioactive iodine-131 than Three Mile

[Fledermaus]

YOUTUBE VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHmaEs5cYU&feature=related

The first phase of the worker study, released in 1997, found SSFL worker
exposure to radiation appears to have increased the risk of dying from lung cancer,
cancers of the blood and lymph system, and cancers of the upper-aerodigestive-tract
(including cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, and stomach).
http://www.ssflpanel.org/files/panel_worker_chem.pdf
The UCLA researchers’ radiation study1 was released in 1997 and found that exposure
of SSFL workers to external radiation was associated with an elevated rate of dying from
cancers of the blood and lymph systems and from lung cancer; death rates for all cancers and
for “radiosensitive” solid cancers were found to increase as external radiation dose increased;
and exposure to internal radiation emitters similarly resulted in increased rates of dying from
cancers of blood and lymph systems and cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract. The
researchers found these effects arising from doses well below those permitted by current
regulations. They found radiation risks about 6-8 times higher than those generally
extrapolated from A-bomb survivor data, and they found that cancer rates were impacted
more by radiation that workers received at older than at younger ages.

At least four of the reactors suffered accidents:
 the AE6 reactor experienced a release of fission gases in March of 19597
 the SRE experienced a power excursion and partial meltdown in July 19598
 the SNAP8ER in 1964 experienced damage to 80% of its fuel9
 the SNAP8DR in 1969 experienced similar damage to a third of its fuel10
In addition, the Hot Lab suffered a number of fires involving radioactive materials. For
example, in 1957, a fire in the Hot Cell “got out of control and not only spread contamination
but damaged some equipment. . . . Because such massive contamination was not anticipated, the
planned logistics of cleanup were not adequate for the situation.”11 Another radioactive fire
occurred in 1971, involving combustible primary reactor coolant (NaK) contaminated with
mixed fission products.12
Radioactively and chemically contaminated items were not supposed to be burned in
the Area IV burnpit. Nonetheless, such items were burned there for decades, causing
extensive contamination of soil and groundwater and offsite migration in surface water
runoff.13
The accident history of the site is poorly understood, given the limited amount of
disclosure that has occurred to date. For example, virtually no information has been disclosed
by DOE or Rocketdyne about the accident history of what may be the most dangerous
operation at the site – the plutonium fuel fabrication facility. Elevated plutonium
concentrations have been detected in soil outside the facility, but its record of incidents
remains publicly unknown.
http://www.ssflpanel.org/files/SSFLPanelReport.pdf

[ensho]

1. thank you truth teller

nt

[Fledermaus]

2. The Atomic Energy Commission tried to cover it up for twenty years

to protect the nuclear power industry

[NNadir]

3. So your point is that 260 as many times people DIED from the Simi Valley Accident as Died From Three

Mile Island?

Does that mean that 260 Harriburg populations were totally completely decidmated?

How come there were 118,227 people still living there as of 2005?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Valley,_California

Are they all radioactive mutants?

This is pretty typical of anti-nukes, making a huge, big deal out of scare mongering piece of bull that is decades old for which they cannot establish a single health effect.

There are, of course, ZERO anti-nukes who give a rat's ass about the 1.6 million people the World Health Organization reported last year as dying from indoor air pollution, largely caused by burning biomass.

Because imaginary deaths decades ago that they claimed were "covered up."

By contrast, there's no "cover up" of the dead each year from air pollution associated with burning wood, cow shit, pig shit, horseshit, straw, etc, etc, etc.

In fact the World Health Organization would love it if anyone probably including hysterial uneducated anti-nukes would give a rat's ass about the topic, and so put it right on their website: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/index.html

More than half of the world’s population rely on dung, wood, crop waste or coal to meet their most basic energy needs. Cooking and heating with such solid fuels on open fires or stoves without chimneys leads to indoor air pollution. This indoor smoke contains a range of health-damaging pollutants including small soot or dust particles that are able to penetrate deep into the lungs. In poorly ventilated dwellings, indoor smoke can exceed acceptable levels for small particles in outdoor air 100-fold. Exposure is particularly high among women and children, who spend the most time near the domestic hearth. Every year, indoor air pollution is responsible for the death of 1.6 million people - that's one death every 20 seconds.

Similarly, the http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/">Table of Nuclides is on the internet, where it is available to anyone who gives a rat's ass about nuclear science, the science that anti-nukes hate much like creationists hate molecular biology, genetics and paleontology.

In fact, the half life of Iodine-131 is still the same as it was when the Simi Valley was allegedly, according to people who hate the science about which they know nothing wiped out and rendered sterile forever in 1959, according to the dumb shit anti-nuke David Lochbaum: 8.02070 days.

Have a nice selective attention oil soaked coal ash soaked oblivious day.

[madokie]

4. But yet there is those here who will swear that no one has died because of our nuclear

energy plants and when I call bullshit I'll get piled on like crazy, called all kinds of names etc. I've been fighting this menace ever since PSO tried to build Black Fox Nuclear Power Station upwind from me. I'll take my chances with us figuring out how to make the energy we use in a more benign way. Coal and Nuclear are killing us as sure as the sun will rise in the east and those are not, I repeat are not the only options

Google search:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=black+fox+nuclear+power+station&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=a86c207b1c79523e

Black Fox nuclear power plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Big guy don't bother as you are on ignore and I won't see it anyway.
Big guy knows who I'm referring to too.

edit to add: I can see toe sucker has already replied