Subject: RE:[Pakistan-Media] What if Tsunami hit Karachi
Dear Friends:
The first thing to consider is what is Tsunami and how it is produced. Tsunami is a Japanese word for a huge ocean wave caused by a submarine disturbance, as an earth-quake or volcanic eruption. [i.e. an underwater earth-quakes due to seismic disturbance caused by an external force]
Earth-quakes can be caused by nature or these could be initiated by man, known ever since we started conducting underground nuclear tests. Both have their characteristic signatures recorded by seismic activity detectors. In the case of natural earth-quakes the seismic activity gradually grows in amplitude and at time T(0) it shoots very high decreasing in time. Whereas, nuclear test initiated earth-quakes have unique signatures, i.e. very little seismic activity till T(0), after which the amplitude shoots very high and gradually decreases over time.
During 2005, when a very huge earth-quake killed thousands in Kashmir and also was felt in Islamabad, where the Margala Towers building was destroyed and many people killed. An article in July2005 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine described an experiment conducted through an un-manned submarine guided by satellites, which left North Atlantic sea and travelled South-East, entirely guided by satellite. The submarine contained a tiny nuke known as “bunker buster” and at appropriate geographical coordinate, the nuke was remotely detonated. This was the most likely cause of a huge disturbance at the geological fault that initiated the Tsunami, wreaking havoc in the coastal areas. We recently observed the huge Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, by BP due to unexpected chain reaction of mishaps that led to the world/s largest Oil disaster after Alaska several years ago.
Basic Principle of Nuclear Reactors for Power Generation. The Power generating Reactors utilize the same Fission principle as used in a a Nuclear Bomb. The difference being that in a Nuclear bomb, it is uncontrolled Fission, whereas in nuclear reactor, the Fission is controlled by sensors that measure the neutron flux and this feed back controls a moderator which absorbs the neutrons and decreases or increases the amount of fission for continuous operation of the reactor in which the released energy in the form of heat is transferred to water to generate steam, which is sent to turbines to generate electricity. There are many kinds of Reactor designs, such as,
(1) Magnox type of gas cooled, graphite moderated reactor fuel: natural uranium metal, and carbon dioxide as coolant.
(2) Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR), in which the fuel is slightly enriched uranium oxide, coolant is carbon dioxide, and Graphite as moderator.
(3) Fast Reactor: In this the Fuel is Plutonium and Uranium Oxide, Liquid Sodium as coolant, and no moderator.
(4) Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). The Fuel used is enriched Uranium oxide, and pressurized water serves as coolant and moderator.
(5) Boiling Water Reactor (BWR): The fuel in this reactor is enriched uranium oxide, and water serves as Moderator and Coolant. [Current Reactors used in Japan and other countries designed by General Electric and Westinghouse]
(6) Heavy Water Reactor to generate steam. In this the Fuel is slightly enriched uranium-oxide, Heavy Water serves as Moderator, and steam converted into water used as coolant.
(7) The last is the Fast Breeder Reactor, which produces more fuel that could be diverted to make nukes. This type of reactor and neutron bomb were banned by President Jimmy Carter, trained as Nuclear Engineer, who foresaw the abuse.
Features of Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Design: Water is also the coolant and moderator in BW-Reactors, but it is not pressurized, it is allowed toboil in the reactor. A BWR is, therefore, like a “nuclear kettle,” with fuel (enriched Uranium-oxide in zirconium alloy instead of a heating element. The steam passes from the top of the reactor direct to the turbo-generator.
A BWR is relatively simple reactor. It has no heat exchanger, and the reactor pressure vessel has to withstand much smaller pressures than that in Pressurized Water Reactor, and therefore has thinner walls.
The average estimated life of most of the reactors in use is about thirty years, after which they have to decommissioned, and become worse than a grave-yard. Bob Hope, a well known comedian, used to say, ”I can’t understand why people build fences around a grave yard, since no one wants to get in and no one can get out.” The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactors in Ukraine, were buried in a huge Cement grave, and no one could go near it due to long-lasting high level of radiation surrounding it.
Pakistan’s nuclear power generating reactor CANNUP, is of a different design and is more than 40 years old. There is no way to stretch its life due to uncertainty about the condition of its internal stainless steel pipes, which over 40 years of neutron bombardment become brittle and can break any time to cause incurable damage and radioactive waste spill out.
The secretive Nuclear industry is like Mafia, and never tells the truth about the hazards. The new tool to cover up the lies in the arsenal of people who are chasing the money rather than caring about the safety, health, and security, is “Risk Analysis” Program, based entirely on laws of Statistics, without any consideration to the Physical/Chemical properties of Materials used in Design and fabrication of such systems. A former British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli had no regard for statistics and said, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics,” because one can manipulate the end results by altering the size of the data-sample.
The author saw it cause two serious accidents of the Space Shuttle, where NASA Engineers built a false sense of security regarding SAFETY, by brain-washing the management with the probability results churned out from “Risk Analysis” computations. And I believe that same happened in the financial down-turn of the Wall Street, by building a false sense of security by telling lies to the investors, entirely based on speculations and ignoring assumptions based on facts.
Pakistan has been lately flirting with the idea of installing more nuclear reactors due to pressure from Nuclear Mafia such as Areva, a big French Nuclear Conglomerate spreading its tentacles even in Pakistan. We have observed from Three major accidents (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukijima) that those who project Nuclear Energy as Safe and Green are nothing but LIARS (based upon their uncertain results from Risk Analysis computations of Probabilities. Pakistan is blessed with tremendous amount of Solar Energy, which can be exploited for energy to improve the economic condition of every Tom, Dick and Harry in the city or a village. And this is the only VIABLE solution, including Political survival as a country which is already in the cross-hair for having pursued the ATOM for Energy and Security. We have seen the “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” as a smoke screen to defang Iraq from its nuclear ambitions, and now it’s the turn for Libya to pay the price for helping Pakistan monetarily to become a nuclear power (at extremely high cost and possibility of further chaos and Military conflict like many other countries on the other side of the Zionistan- fence. Thus Solar Energy is only solution for Paklistan to meet its growing energy needs rather than wait for the Mana & Salwa to drop from the sky laden with Foreign Aid clouds.
Thus the answer to your question about the effect of Karachi being hit by a tsunami is that it will certainly produce a disaster of unknown dimensions since CANNUP reactor is more than 40 years old and uses a more risky technology for Fission control.
REFERENCE BOOKS RELATED TO NUCLEAR ENERGY & NUCLEAR REACTORS:
1. Mathew Gaines, “ATOMIC ENERGY,” illustrated by Design Bureau, Bantam Knowledge Through Color, Bantom Books, London, Toronto, and New York NY 1970.
[Excellent color photographs and graphics to illustrate and make it easier to understand]
2. A. Klimov, (translated from Russian to English by O. Rudnitskaya), “Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Reactors,” Mir Publishing Company, Moscow, Russia 1975. (Hard)
3. John Berger, “NUCLEAR POWER: The Unviable Option,” [Foreword by Senator Mike Gravel, and introduction by Dr. Linus Pauling, twice Noble Prize Winner], A Laurel Edition, Dell Publishing Company, Inc., New York NY 1976. ISBN 0-440-35994-5. (PBK). Here are some quotes from the back side of this excellent expose’ of Nuclear Industry (aka Nuclear Mafia):
a. In the early fifties, surprised officials of the government’s nuclear weapons program discovered that radioactivity – cesium-137 and strontium-90- was not dispersing into the stratosphere as they had assumed it would, but was coming back to earth. To measure the unexpected fallout, Project Sunshine was established-but the project was kept secret.
b. In 1957, a university report on the effects of possible nuclear reactor accident projected that, amongst other things, under maximum radioactive release conditions , 133,000 people would receive a lethal dose of radiation—and half of them would perish. The report was quietly buried.
c. In 1972, the AEC projected that about 10 million pounds of plurtonum would be commercially produced in the United States by the year 2000,. One pound, if administered in finely dispersed particles to human lungs, is enough to cause cancer in the entire global population.
“Perhaps the best in the latest series of books on the nation’s nuclear economy. . . . “ “People And Energy.”
“ I hope that every responsible citizen will read this book and think about the problem.”—Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of Two Noble Prizes, who sounded the first alarm about accidents in Nuclear Reactors.
The author (Bashir A. Syed) had a good fortune of being a student of Dr. Frank Berendregt, a UNESCO Exchange Prof. of Nuclear Physics, while an M.Sc.(Physics) student, at Karachi University during early fifties, whose personal accounts of nuclear accidents were eye openers.
4. Ernest Sternglass, “SECRET FALLOUT: LOW LEVEL RADIATION FROM HIROSHIMA TO THRE-MILE ISLAND,” [Introduction by George Wald, Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine], McGraw-Hill Paperback, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY 1972 and 1981. ISBN 0-07-061242-0. (PBK). {excellent book}
5. Daniel Ford, (former Executive Director, Union of Concerned Scientists), “MELT-DOWN, The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission—The Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl . . . Where Next?” a Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY 1982 and 1986. (PBK). ISBN 0-671-63449-6.
Other Radiation Effects Related Books and Articles:
· G. C. Messenger & M. S. Ash, “The EFECTS OF RADIATION ON ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS,” Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York NY 1986 and later 2nd edition. ISBN 0-442-25417-2. [This is a very important book to understand the effects of constant bombardment of neutrons on Electronic components, sensors, and devices, which can also lead to Nuclear accident or a disaster].
· America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War. (Hard-cover)
· Eileen Welsome, “Plutonium Files,” Dial Press, Random House, Inc. New York 1999. ISBN 0-385 -31402-7. [ This book was published after former Sec. of Energy, Hazel O’Leary, under President Clinton, declassified secret information about experiments conducted on terminal patients by injecting Uranium and Plutonium in their bodies, without their explicit consent by Los Alamos Lab scientists].
· Mark Gaffney, “DIMONA THE THIRD TEMPLE? The Story Behind The Vanunu Revelation,” Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. [ISBN 0-915597-77-2] [It’s an excellent book about Israel’s Nuclear Reactors (dubbed as Textile Mills by Ben Gurion, but proven as Reactors during Eisenhower administration through U-2 flights]
· Ramsey Clark (former U.S. Attorney General), Dr. Helen Caldicott, Rosalie Bertell et al., “Depleted Uranium: METAL OF DISHONOR – How the Pentagon RADIATES soldiers & civilians with DU weapons,” 2nd Edition, International Action Center, New York NY 1999. www.iacenter.org ISBN 0-9656916-0-8.
· Dr. Helen Caldicott,” The NEW Nuclear DANGER: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex,” The New Press, New York NY 2002. {Dr. Caldicott, a Pediatrician, is the founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize].
· April 6, 1979. Israeli Mossad blew up the core of Nuclear Reactor (being built for Iraq) at a nuclear plant at Le Seyne-sur-Mer, France.
· June 7, 1981. Israeli Defense Forces used American supplied and modified F-!6 ‘s , bombed and destroyed Iraqi nuclear reactor, Osirak,” near Baghdad, (which was being built by France), on orders of Prime Minister, Menachim Begin.
· Google search for key words: [Nuclear, Bombs, Accidents] yields an interesting website [www.didyouknow.cd/nuclear.htm which provides information about “Lost Nuclear Bombs of U.S.”
Bashir A. Syed
Retired Aerospace Physicist
Fulbright, NSF/US-AEC, and NASA Scholar
Former Pres., Assoc. of Pakistani Scientists and Engineers in North America (1997-99).
Former Member of Radiation Safety Committee, at NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Mentors: Dr. Arthur Holy Compton (Nobel Prize -Compton Effect in Physics & Member of Manhattan Project), Edward U. Condon (Teacher), Dr. Frank Berendregt (UNESCO Prof. of Nuclear Physics), and Richard Smalley (Nobel Laureate - Nano-Technology).
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