Published: February 2nd, 2012 at 11:22 pm ET
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Title: Damage to both reactor units?
Source: The Orange County Register
Date: Feb 2, 2012
[...] New details also emerged about an unrelated accident on Friday, when a contract worker slipped into a pool above the unit 2 reactor, now offline for maintenance, while trying to retrieve a flashlight.
The man, whose name Edison declined to release, was not injured, and did not suffer harmful radiation exposure, but might have ingested the mildly radioactive water, Alexander said. No internal contamination was found. [...]
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Published: February 2nd, 2012 at 11:22 pm ET
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I don’t know where to go with this one!
It’s too easy!
Nite, nite!
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What kind of pool of radioactive water could have been stored above Reactor 2? A spent fuel pool? Or is there another kind?
He slipped into a pool of slightly radioactive water but was not injured and didn’t suffer “harmful” radiation exposure, even though he might have ingested the “mildly” radioactive water…What kind of pool did he slip into?
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Almost certainly a sfp or an equipment pool. As hard as it is to imagine, apparently they dive in the damned things.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/fission+stories/page/7
Check out fission stories #18 and #19…
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wow; not good.
“On June 1, 1982, a diver installing support plates for fuel storage racks in the Unit 2 spent fuel pool (see figure above for a representative spent fuel pool) at Indian Point in New York received a radiation exposure of about 8.7 rem to his head. Federal limits restrict radiation exposure for workers to 5 rem per year. This diver received more than a year’s allotment of radiation in a few minutes.”
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ingested the mildly radioactive water, Alexander said. No internal contamination was found,,,
what a stupid comment…
spin spin spin
they are so used to spin they cant help themselves…
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1. to take (food or liquid) into the body
2. (Engineering / Aeronautics) (of a jet engine) to suck in (an object, a bird, etc.)
3. ingest – take up mentally; “he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe”
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“No internal contamination” wow.
Why don’t nuke workers get radiation vaccines?
I wonder if the lying nuke spokespeople and high-level nuke regulatory people have gotten radiation vaccines.
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Beyond surreal!
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Maybe we are in the middle of a mega desensitization mandate? That fits sorta.
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Happy MOX Spa Day.
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Ouch, but all joking aside, some Japanese Onsen (natural hot springs have low levels of radium and that is considered healthful for some ailments), just saying….
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lol! getting more surreal by the minute!
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Natural hot springs true but located where and pre or post 311?
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Graphic Displays of Japan Area Earthquakes
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/2012/02/graphic-displays-of-japan-area.html
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Thanks, stock@hi. That was pretty incredible!
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Yah, rarely do I watch that long a video, it was really cool, I wish they had that for prior years also!
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When that worker starts levitating, I’ll start believing radiation ‘cures’ ills.
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Vita Radium Suppositories
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/radsup.htm
the radiation is sooo good for you!
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What, no Mr. Bubble?
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repost
heres what the nuke protection aythorities were doing before fukushima daichi..
Part 1 of 5: A Matter of Risk: Radiation, Drinking Water, and Deception
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It’s like bleedin Dr. No.
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The ONLY thing I want to know is,….why are they telling us this?
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Tried all night to shake the stupidity of this one,…but have not succeeded, obviously.
Here’s what’s bugging me. Why the old, “Slipped in while reaching for something”,…like the bimbo off of the balcony. Yeah right? Reaching for his ‘flashlight’? And, why the details? Was this a whistle blower story?
Seems like somethings is here.
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It crossed my mind too that maybe some of these stories are to warn us, because the current system is not appearing to allow for a proper warning. I forget, but I think it was the frequency of incidents that made me think that, not the oddity of any of them.
Interesting about the odd story significance, though. This worker slipping in the pool does seem a good way to tell us “look, we’re in big trouble here. We’re trying to warn you that unfortunate things like this happen all the time! And it’s gonna get worse!”
It’s like they’re behind the glass staring at us with The Look. Yet not allowed to say anything genuine. I bet those people are all hand-tied, threatened with job loss from above.
And I’m sure you remember the ammonia leak at the same plant at the end of last year.
That’s 3.
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Or maybe it’s just a warning that things are at a tipping point.
I agree with the post below too, but most of all I think they reported it for the sake of disclosure and then applied their usual yet opportunistic understatement of the radiation risk.
I wonder how the worker’s doing.
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They are telling us this to underrline the idea that radiation is not dangerous…even if you swim in it…whether it happened or not it’s a learning opportunity.
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i have to wonder if this person can read?! obviously this person does not exhibit common sense at all. lets see, radiation exposure is cumulative so if we eat a bannana and sleep next to someone and have occasional excess of that from being underground (radium) and the occasional angry sun, and the occasional supernova in the cosmos somewhere, what does all that add up to quantitatively speaking? now add all the man made stuff we are exposed to like xrays, cat scans, tmi, chernobyl, the bombs from the 40′s, 50′s and 60′s, the other nuclear accidents and releases like fukushima (it seems these are always going on), what does that do to the cumulative summation? and furthermore even if it truly wouldnt do much to you, there are other factors to consider like, nutritional deficiencies, chronic illness, toxic exposure to pesticides and chemicals like dioxins and pcb’s and what about gmo foods. what happens when your system is already over burdened by those things and then the additional radiation? what happens to YOU then? because thats the way it really is. imo.
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Since the radiation is sooo good to us, I suggest that we should use open nuclear plant and the pool can be use as a public swimming pool. They are warm in winter.
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