http://live.psu.edu/pstory/26939

Yea, so the nuclear reactor on my campus is leaking. It's been fine for 50 years, yet the year I start coming here it leaks.....it's like danger follows me. And people wonder why I try to be prepared for the worst.

I feel your pain I was on Treasure Island in San Francisco for the 89 quake. In the Philippines when Mt Pinatubo blew it’s top. I was in Desert Storm and saw all the evacuees running from the oil well fires. I was in southern California the last time it was on fire also I was in New Orleans for Katrina and Rita. As long as this list is it is an incomplete list I have been in so many different natural and man-made events I quit keeping track. Now every one knows why I keep a well-stocked BOB and am obsessed with bugging out. Damn looking back now I'm really getting paranoid, do you think some ones trying to tell me somthing?

Um, maybe "Don't go to Houston!"?

Just kidding!

-Blast

I have the same problem with an additional slant,,,,,ANYTHING that is weird, strange, or unusual WILL happen on my watch. I am the focus of an investigation now for a hole being in a barge and neither the Capt or myself have a clue of the who, what, when, or where that this occurred.

I don't want to even get near the subject of seeing strange things in my days or nights.

comon now it dosen't happen every day but it does seem to kinda regular.

This is nowhere near "the worst." Dangers of nuclear reactors are deliberately exaggerated by those with an agenda in order to ensure the public reacts in fright to the word "nuclear." Medical MRI machines were initially called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance scanners (NMR). They had to change the name to get people to accept them.

This reactor isn't much danger even if all the water leaks away. It's not a POWER reactor producting large quantities of fission products.

Unimogbert
(former Navy nuke operator)

I agree with unimogbert. It's a nonhazard and you have nothing to worry about. I have toured PSUs reactor and it is a standard TRIGA research reactor, much like the one at Texas A&M and other universities. The water has such low levels of activation products that you could probably drink it without much of a dose consequence.

My advice is to use this as an excuse to drink more beer to flush your system of potential "contaminants". I recommend Otto's brewery as a good place to start.

Greg
(radiation physicist)

Good advice Greg. I like your thinking.

Perhaps there is a bright side. God believes that you can keep your head on your shoulders and your stuff together so that you can help others less fortunate. Small consolation when TSHTF, but it is a purpose for living.

Wishing you better luck in the future!

That's what I figured, but it's just funny how the thing is fine for years until I get here. Never a dull moment in my life.