{"id":1149,"date":"2011-03-17T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2016-04-20T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T16:39:56","slug":"from-the-mad-men-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/from-the-mad-men-era\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Mad Men Era…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Built in 1971, the\u00a0Japanese reactors that are tragically melting down, as well as 23 others in the US<\/a>, are designs from the sixties! From GE, they were dubbed the Mark I, and marketed as less expensive and easy to build. From the same era, the Westinghouse\/Bechtel-built reactor, beachside at San Onofre<\/a>, may seem a world away, in the heavily populated provinces, but it is only 64 miles from the border of the city of Los Angeles. Built to withstand only <\/em>a 7.0 quake, a 30-foot seawall has been erected to protect against tsunamis.<\/p>\n

L.A. TIMES<\/em>, today:\u00a0“Fukushima’s #3 reactor…uses plutonium fuel, which poses a special health risk even in small quantities if fallout from that reactor were to reach US shores.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

As we await the fallout that will reach So Cal Friday, there are so many talking heads spouting answers, but no models; no one can really say how much radioactivity will reach the US – and for how long<\/em>. All I can\u00a0think of is the classic 1959 movie, On The Beach<\/em><\/a>. Stream it and weep!<\/p>\n

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\nUpdate:The San Onofre reactor in Orange County, California has been shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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