3CATSAILOR
Well-Known Member
The question is how safe can you feel as a nearby Nuclear Power Plant reaches 50 years old in 2025? It is bad enough that the bridge is near 50 years old. So is Calvert Cliffs. True, they provide good high paying jobs. But at what long term expense? And if there is a problem there, half of their County evacuates to guess where? Yep, St. Mary's County. We can't get cars moving during rush hour in St. Mary's on a good day, let alone adding traffic from an evacuation.
Lets say they evacuate the 28 thousand at Pax River plus the six thousand at Webster Field at the same time nobody goes anywhere. There is sure to be at least one accident along the way. And all it takes is one accident. The Commissioners do not want to hear that we do not have the infrastructure to support the massive build up St. Mary's is experiencing. And now they want to build up the Southern end of Calvert as well. We just don't the roads to support it. Simple as that. Thankfully, and so far, we have not had the need to report the horrific response that Pax River had when 911 happened. Pax was backed up. Hardly anyone went anywhere. I doubt Pax's new solution will work either. They haven't tested it yet. So, they don't know.
Do you remember the old phone books? Just inside the phone books it gave a picture of a ten mile zone that the so called experts that would be in a radiated area if Calvert Cliffs had a problem. Well, that wan assumption based on crap. The incident in Japan strongly proved that radiation from a Nuclear Plant release does NOT stay within ten miles. In fact, in Japan the radiation went out no less than 100 miles. Therefore, how much of Calvert and or St. Mary's would have a problem under that scenario? Is the Japanese Nuclear Plant still leaking radiation in to the ocean? Some say yes. Some say no.
At what point does the CCNPP need to be shut down completely? Is it safe for another 50 years? 100 years? Who knows.
Lets say they evacuate the 28 thousand at Pax River plus the six thousand at Webster Field at the same time nobody goes anywhere. There is sure to be at least one accident along the way. And all it takes is one accident. The Commissioners do not want to hear that we do not have the infrastructure to support the massive build up St. Mary's is experiencing. And now they want to build up the Southern end of Calvert as well. We just don't the roads to support it. Simple as that. Thankfully, and so far, we have not had the need to report the horrific response that Pax River had when 911 happened. Pax was backed up. Hardly anyone went anywhere. I doubt Pax's new solution will work either. They haven't tested it yet. So, they don't know.
Do you remember the old phone books? Just inside the phone books it gave a picture of a ten mile zone that the so called experts that would be in a radiated area if Calvert Cliffs had a problem. Well, that wan assumption based on crap. The incident in Japan strongly proved that radiation from a Nuclear Plant release does NOT stay within ten miles. In fact, in Japan the radiation went out no less than 100 miles. Therefore, how much of Calvert and or St. Mary's would have a problem under that scenario? Is the Japanese Nuclear Plant still leaking radiation in to the ocean? Some say yes. Some say no.
At what point does the CCNPP need to be shut down completely? Is it safe for another 50 years? 100 years? Who knows.
Not to mention the 9.0 earthquake that will kick it all off.