[TheForge] nuke plants and other thoughts

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

there are more than commercial power generation reactors out there is
the wild. the university of illinois has a small reactor used for
experiements and testing. the university of chicago also has a small
reactor. lawerance livermore laboratory has several reactors. argonne
national laboratory has several reactors. then there are the
decommissioned reactors in the bottom of several undergraound complexes
out west.

illinois, appears to have the most nuclear plants used for power
generation. close to dekalb, illinois is the byron plant and the dresden
plant. the quad cities is further away. dresden is the same type of
reactor as the japanese nuclear plants.

when the new madrid faults lets loose again, we will see just how well
those plants are constructed. also even though they are in the middle of
the midwest , the last time the new madrid fault let loose it changed
the course of the mississippi river and there is evidence of large waves
occurring on the great lakes, particularly lake michigan. never
underestimate the waves on the great lakes. if the lake bed were to move
in a similar fashion as the ocean floor the waves would be just like a
tsunami.

zion nuclear power plant is in standdown/decommissioned is rather close
to lake michigan. it current stores many spent fuel cells in a 3 million
gallon swimming pool.

the moral is that there is danger and risks around us everyday and
everywhere. just driving a car is high risk. be involved in a
head-on-collision and you will see what i mean. your life changes
forever in a split second and there is not anything you can do about it.

stuff happens are generally it is the bad nasty stuff that happens.
such is life.

we are born, we suffer and plod through life, then we die. some die
sooner. some die later. we all die eventually.

-- 
terry l. ridder ><>