To Pamela Re: Blog Post by Dr. Brownstein

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Pamela,

I don't know why you went off on your big tangent about Chernobyl in response to my post about the impact of filtering of vented radiation only being around 25% effective. I suspect you were trying to give reassurance by saying "but that was a controlled release through filtering elements to decrease the impact of the radiation", but prior experience at Chernobyl proves that filtering provides only low diminuition of released radiation.

I was only addressing the issue of effectiveness of filtering, and in no way did I compare the outcome of the Fukushima reactor problems to Chernobyl. What would be relevant to the this discussion is a comparison of the filter mechanisms used at Chernobyl to those used at Fukushima. I will grant that perhaps they have improved, but maybe not. Do you know?

I don't think we should overreact to what has happened at Fukushima, but I don't think we should falsely reassure either. I think the Huffington Post link that Linn cited is important reading. This was new information to me. I would say chilling except that I already know the government lies.

Lynn

For the opposite view:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/people-died-at-three-mile_b_179588.html

Linn

On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Pamela wrote:

Chernobyl was a wholesale meltdown - rated 7 on the International Nuclear event Scale (which rates events from 0-7. Chernobyl was the only level 7 event to occur in history. Description of a level 7 event: ...Example: Three Mile Island accident (burg, United States), 28 March 1979. A combination of design and operator errors caused a gradual loss of coolant, leading to a partial meltdown. Radioactive gases were released into the atmosphere. (NOBODY DIED from the 3 Mile accident and there were no injuries, either).>> From: "Pamela" <prov31mom23@...>> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:13 PM>> > No significant release of radiation has occurred - yes, they have vented > > >radiation - but that was a controlled release through filtering elements > > to >decrease the impact of the radiation.> > In the investigation of what happened at Chernobyl, researchers found that > the filtering elements captured only about 25% of the vented radiation. The > remainder was released as vapor, which was not captured by the filters.> > Lynn