[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/10/2018 12:50 AM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Tim Streater wrote:
>> In article <v96a5dlvf4fhhir13an7fgq7f2fmgad4tf at 4ax.com>, Doomsdrzej
>> <dre at do.om> wrote:
>>
>>>> Solar, thermal, wind, and for consistency, nuclear.
>>>
>>> The first three are worthless ...
>>
>> Right so far.
>>
>>> ...and the last is the most dangerous thing on Earth.
>>
>> Total balls.
>>
>> At TMI and Fukushima, no one killed or injured. At Chernobyl (where
>> they had to work very hard to make even a poorly designed reactor have
>> a meltdown), less than 100 dead. Per terrawatt-hour of energy produced,
>> much the safest way to generate electricity. As you'd know if you refer
>> to the Without-the-hot-air website I referred you to.
>>
> 
> Anything can be dangerous.
> 
> Three Mile Island, if I have my facts straight, was a rather new 
> facility, with fairly new operators.  Inadequately trained operators.
> 
> Water level was dropping in the core.  A particular valve had 600 PSI on 
> one side, and 200 PSI on the otherside.  Closed, right?  WRONG!  If they 
> had closed the valve, no problem would have occurred.  High pressure 
> steam can be funny that way.
> 
> I think better design might have given indications of the status of the 
> valve.
> 
> So, some rabble rouser says some things, and people who don't have a 
> clue believe it, then the mob is off and running.
> 

I always get a kick out of people talking about TMI.  I was
stationed in Germany with the Army when it happened what I
saw were the API reports in Stars and Stripes our "local"
newspaper.  Two of them stick with me.

One was a picture of a man looking skyward thru what appeared
to be a tube and the caption: "Worker measuring radioactive
levels outside the Three Mile Island reactor building." Being
a CBR NCO at the time I maintained a couple dozen of those
"tubes".  They were IM-174/PD Pocket Dosimeters.  Not some
device for measuring radiation in the air.  You read them by
looking thru them in the direction of some light, like the
daytime sky.

The other was a story that started out with a glaring headline
and then told of a man coming home and finding his wife about
to drink water from the tap.  He slaps the glass out of her
hand smashing it on the floor saying " You can't drink that,
there has been a disaster at Three Mile Island."  If the water
she was going to drink came from the Susquehanna River below
Wilkes-Barre radiation would be the least of her problems.
The Lackawanna Sanitary Authority dumps raw sewage into the
Lackawanna River which feeds into the Susquehanna River.
According to a survey done by people from Penn State Univ.
when they were talking about a recreational dam just below
Wilkes Barre if this discharge stopped it would take at least
25 years before the water would be usable recreationally.
There is also still considerable mine discharge in both the
Lackawanna and Susquehanna Rivers.  They fish the river
around Wilkes Barre but people are told not to eat the fish.

Yes, Three Mile Island is downstream from Wilkes Barre.

But, sensationalism sells newspapers.  And nothing feeds
sensationalism like scare mongering "nuclear disaster"
stories.

bill