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Being struck by lightning

Ras Gharib, Egypt Terminal—16 tanks, containing approximately 30,000 barrels of crude oil each, caught fire after being struck by lightning. [Pg.7]

The probability of being struck by lightning is a pretty low number, even if that probability is applied to every year of your life. Of course, your lifestyle can change that probability somewhat — depending on how much you go golfing or sailing. [Pg.110]

For question, subject, or present I dealt out Fire, Trump XV. That puzzles me. It obviously doesn t represent me, or you, or a murderer. Fire shows a tower being struck by lightning, with a man and woman falling from it. Can it mean danger to the Republic ... [Pg.145]

An acceptable risk is one which people instinctively consider to be so small that they never seriously worry about it. In northern latitudes, the risk arising from being struck by lightning might be an example few people lie awake at night fretting about it. [Pg.311]

Death through being struck by lightning 5 X 10" year" ... [Pg.54]

Where there is a risk of about 10 year that individuals may become casualties, steps are usually taken to reduce the risk if possible—thus, the present day concern of society to reduce the death toll from traffic accidents. As the risk diminishes, concern and countermeasures become less in evidence. For risks less than 10 year , the individual does not appear to worry much, and so elaborate precautions against the risk are seldom taken—we do not pass our lives in constant fear of being struck by lightning. Some consider that in these thoughts lies a possible clue to the level of risk from nuclear power that may be acceptable to the individual. This may well be true, and we discuss the matter further below however, experience of debate about reactor siting, and common experience of life and of the daily news which most affect people s actions and reactions may persuade us that it is the collective risk of numbers of people or a group that should provide the basis of a criterion of overriding importance in relation to risk from nuclear power. This also is discussed further in this section. [Pg.55]

This is not to be taken as a concluding note that all should be left to nature and that those of us engaged in enhanced oil recovery should cease to search for methods where we can alter wettability to improve oil recovery, but it does suggest that our knowledge is far from complete and that our task remains a difficult one. The author of this paper is reminded of his first meeting many years ago with his new research director, an experienced oil recovery expert in one of the world s major oil corporations. He was a powerful man, and he shook the room with the demand that "we need to be struck by lightning with wettability." It is the opinion of this author that the lightning bolt has yet to strike. [Pg.23]

According to the same Boeing report, the hull loss accident rate is 1.59 accidents per million departures. This means that if you flew twice a day, it would be 2,178 years before you were involved in a hull loss accident, on average. The odds of being involved in a hull loss accident are considerably less than the odds of being struck by lightning (estimated at 1 280,000 by the US National Lightning Safety Institute). [Pg.295]

Negligible Risk broadly accepted by most people as they go about their everyday lives, these would include the risk of being struck by lightning or of having brake failure in a car. [Pg.5]

In these circumstances, simpler rules are needed. An alternative is Quantitative Risk Assessment where the statistical risks associated with an activity are enumerated, and some rules adopted to decide whether these risks are acceptable or not. Quantitative Risk Assessment is used in the United States, although the rules adopted are ridiculed by Viscusi (1996). For example, the EPA and the Food and Drug Administration have targets that no one should face a lifetime risk of more than 1 in 100,000 from an activity or hazard. On the basis of a seventy-year life this implies that no one should be exposed to an annual risk of more than one in seven million, which is smaller than the risk of being struck by lightning. These rules would clearly outlaw most things that we do in our daily lives. [Pg.41]


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