tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post6723206447023494540..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Monday Evening UpdateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-11585894321935032812011-03-30T08:30:01.282-04:002011-03-30T08:30:01.282-04:00“If you have ideas on how the industry could be mo...“If you have ideas on how the industry could be more effective, please share them.”<br /><br />The only way the media is going to give equal treatment to nuclear is when you are spending as much on daily advertising as the oil/gas/coal industry. In the meantime, for every reactor-year of delay, postponement, or premature cancellation they can create, the fossil energy interests make an extra $365 million in revenue. Tilting the media is a pay-to-play game.<br /><br />Nuclear was an industry created by scientific geniuses, and destroyed (in the democracies anyway) by media executives, politicians, and lawyers.Atomikrabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378221046939835905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-84123321021416894732011-03-29T07:42:38.852-04:002011-03-29T07:42:38.852-04:00netudiant, there are not massive emissions coming ...netudiant, there are not massive emissions coming out of the plant. That implies the reactor cores are exposed like Chernobyl and that's not the case. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12860842" rel="nofollow">A piece in the BBC news explains</a> that the "radioactive fallout at Fukushima is less than 1% of that at Chernobyl."<br /><br />jimwg, the whole nuclear industry is mobilized and talking with the media as much as possible. Of course, it would be easier if the media only listened to us (ha ha), but that's simply not the case. We just have to continue to present the facts and help folks under the situation and put it into perspective. I'd have to say not all is bad with the media, there are quite a number of good pieces out there which we've tried to highlight. If you have ideas on how the industry could be more effective, please share them.David Bradishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02439638522932781068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-49962776393412271872011-03-29T05:07:41.354-04:002011-03-29T05:07:41.354-04:00"No Threat From Japanese Radiation Spread Acr..."No Threat From Japanese Radiation Spread Across U.S."<br />Published March 28, 2011<br />Associated Press<br /><br />It'd help further dispell radioation's eternally virulent "creeping glowing fog" perception if the AP put into contrast how weak these traces are; that such are found in volcanic eruptions, and that were there detectors so designed one could detect particulates from Chinese coal-fired plants in the U.S. or sand from Sahara sandstorms.<br /><br />Already cable busuness shows are inviting more and more biased "consultants" announcing that this is the "final nail in the coffin for nuclear energy" and Greenpeace has started to "review" even thermonuclear fusion on their anything nuclear exorcism list.<br /><br />Where is the nuclear industry's demand to have the media fair and balanced?jimwghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06964988758509076556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-45660910606138665732011-03-28T23:05:05.432-04:002011-03-28T23:05:05.432-04:00The Austrians report massive emissions from the pl...The Austrians report massive emissions from the plant equivalent to 10% of the Chernobyl total every day, mostly iodine 131 but also about 10% cesium 137.<br />They base this on the CNTBT monitoring network.<br />The web site http://www.zamg.ac.at/ is in German but the tables and dispersion maps are self explanatory.<br />These emissions have been blown to sea almost continuously since the accident, but are not reported anywhere else.<br />If the wind shifts, they will come as a severe shock to the Japanese people.<br />Could someone knowledgeable explain how long these emissions are projected to continue, where they come from and what is their likely impact.netudianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726679291917155189noreply@blogger.com