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Date: Dec 28, 2004

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A few years back, on 20 June 2001, in a Radsafe post concerning a scare story sent by Russell Hoffman of Concerned Citizen, to Gary Robbins, Science Writer, Orange County Register, the former wrote, "You wanted to talk about earthquake codes and tsunamis. I consider neither to be topics of much interest, frankly. A typical tsunami would destroy San Onofre if it happened to come ashore there. As for earthquakes, one big enough to cause catastrophic damage to San Onofre can occur at any time. I really think that's a simple "given" to most rational people." I say let the reader decide, based on this week's tragic events in the far south-east of Asia : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/973284.cms Kalpakkam nuclear power plant safe: Govt [ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 01:22:04 PM ] NEW DELHI: Allaying fears, government on Tuesday said nuclear power plant in Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu was "safe" in the wake of the tsunami disaster and there was no threat of radiation. "There has been inaccurate speculation on the effect of Tsunami tidal waves on Kalpakkam. The basic facilities of the reactor are safe and unaffected in any manner," National Security Adviser J N Dixit told reporters after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presided over a high-level meeting here. "Both units are safe and there is no danger of any radiation," Dixit said, adding that the Prime Minister has asked for daily briefing on the situation at the plant near Chennai. Observing that the shutdown has been carried because of flooding to allow cleaning and de-watering to bring the plant back to normal functioning, he said the reactor II has been kept in "safe shutdown mode". The Prime Minister has also asked Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar, who inspected the plant on Monday, to stay in Kalpakkam to monitor the situation. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board members would be reaching Kalpakkam on Wednesday to give advise on starting the operations in the plant again, Dixit said. The Prime Minister held the meeting following reports that the facility may have been affected by tsunami. Dixit said that a total of 61 deaths have been reported from the township and villages surrounding the plant. Of the total number casualties, 31 are from the plant, he said, adding that most of the deaths occurred as people had assembled in churches close to the sea front on Sunday morning. [ the obvious conclusion here is that people would have been safer inside the nuke plant....] ======= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/973240.cms India toll touches 9,400; likely to rise REUTERS[ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 12:39:13 PM ] CUDDALORE: Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India on Tuesday, as the government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from tsunami that lashed the country's south would rise further. <snip> Villagers sought the help of soldiers to find bodies of missing relatives as the number of dead rose to 3,670 in Tamil Nadu. <snip> About 50 people were killed in houses around a nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu after waters swept away a wall, state-run Nuclear Power Corp Ltd said. [ again, the obvious conclusion here is that people would have been safer inside the nuke plant....] The plant, on the coast at Kalpakkam, about 80 km south of Madras, was shut down after water entered a pump house supplying coolant to the turbines. But company officials said there was no danger of a radiation spill. "Our information is Kalpakkam is in safe shutdown condition," AR Gore, a Mumbai-based senior executive director at the firm, told Reuters. __________________

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