3 eyed fish found in Argentina reservoir next to nuclear power plant
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/3-eyed-fish-found-near-argentin...
"According to Infobae.com, a Spanish-language news site, the lake where the three-eyed fish was caught is a reservoir where hot water from the nuclear facility is pumped."
First of all, is it true? If so, should nuclear power plants be allowed to use drinking water source? How many nuclear power plants in the US are using drinking water sources to cool their units then dump back?
Limerick nuclear plant next to Philadelphia is using Schuylkill River to cool their units. Then, Schuylkill River water is treated and pumped into people's houses. Is this the reason there is high level of Iodine-131 in Philadelphia tap water?
Mark, how big is the risk of sharing your drinking water with a nuclear power plant?
Argentina is where a flock of
Argentina is where a flock of sheep was supposed to have been blinded because there was a big hole in the ozone years ago. The flock and the story was found to have been bogus inventions of a lunatic environmental organization. As for the possiblities of 3 eyed fish, it happens, in fact my father had a guppy give birth to a 3 eyed fry back in the 50's in NYC. We found out that it happens a lot more than is reported. Perhaps if the South American nations became serious about pollution then industries that dump their waste products such as synthetic steroids, into lakes and streams, would stop destroying the environment.
It's not the cooling water.
Limerick nuclear plant next to Philadelphia is using Schuylkill River to cool their units. Then, Schuylkill River water is treated and pumped into people's houses. Is this the reason there is high level of Iodine-131 in Philadelphia tap water?
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It's not the cooling water. What people don't realize is that the water withdrawn from the river and then returned is only used to cool the power plant's CONDENSERS, like any power plant. It never goes any where near the reactor.
The reactor coolant is always a closed loop, and the reactor coolant water is recycled. The water that is being discharged to the river never went anywhere near the reactor.
The news media has been flooded of late with reports of how much tritium people found in the river downstream of the reactor. What they don't tell you is that if you sampled the water upstream of the reactor, you'd get the exact same level.
People don't realize that there is radioactivity in the environment normally. The anti-nukes have been playing on this ignorance in order to scare monger. They show people that there's tritium in the water and people get all upset because they believe it had to come from the nuclear plant.
They don't know that it comes from good old Mother Nature.
good old mother nature
well what do you see locally in philadelphia geology that would explain the much higher levels of radiation in their reservoirs than in almost every other reservoir in the country?
urine luck, here's the link
Radioactive urine from medical procedures related to thyroid disorders, an externality of NTS and antiquated water systems is what's up in Philly. Let's see what the eminent radiation epidemiologist Dr. John Boice has to say about radioactive pee:
"Interestingly, the radiation monitoring stations in Washington State had to detect
radionuclides other than iodine-131 in order to distinguish radiation from Fukushima from that at
any local hospital in the area. Most nuclear medicine departments use radioactive iodine for
imaging the thyroid and to treat thyroid diseases, and patients are discharged shortly after
intake and remain radioactive for several months, releasing small but detectable levels of
radioactive iodine into the environment."
http://www.hps.org/documents/John_Boice_Testimony_13_May_2011.pdf
Nucleaer Power Plant Plumbing
The animated diagram in the link below shows the coolant plumbing:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/animated-pwr.html
The water that is taken from the river and returned is that loop that one sees just above the word "condenser".
This water doesn't go through the reactor. The water that cools the reactor is that yellow loop at left. Note that this loop of water never leaves the containment building.
Someone tell Mr. Burns that
Someone tell Mr. Burns that Blinky got out again.
Mutated and tumor-ridden
Mutated and tumor-ridden fish and frogs were found many times in the area around Trojan power plant in Oregon. Babies were being born with cancer in the area, too.
Don't drink the water.
Can't wait to see what they
Can't wait to see what they reel in off that Japan coast in the coming years after all the radioactive garbage that's been dumped into the ocean.
Anyway, couldn't live in an area where drinking water is drawn from a river not far downstream from some aging nuclear plant.
That's just me, tho.
Shouldn't be long till one of the usual industry shills is on here telling you that you have absolutely nothing to worry about...............
Well you don't. Just
Well you don't. Just because they find a mutated fish does not mean it is from radiation. There are numerous ways mutations can be caused, correlation just not imply causality.
Trust your instincts
"correlation just not imply causality."
But logic does.
Robotically repeating a snippet of the Pearson coefficient is lame, bro. and you throw it into a lot of threads. Cherry picking pieces of a formula is intellectually dishonest.
Who is cheery picking. It
Who is cheery picking. It is a statement not based in a formula. I do not need to solve any correlation matrix to state that. Should we then chalk up all mutations ever found in that area since the dawn of time to nuclear power? Mutations occur everyday around the world. Sorry to burst your bubble, a good amount are from chemicals. I once saw a 5 legged frog. I found it no where near a nuclear power plant. IS that due to nuclear power too? Look at the science of mutation due to radiation and you will see that mutation due to radiation is a lot more unlikely than you think. Far more unlikely than numerous chemicals. Don't say I am some pro nuke person trying to defend some crazy idea. I always thought that mutations were fairly common due to irradiation, but after looking at the science I changed my mind.