Posted on 03/12/2016 11:03:59 AM PST by Rockitz
Least harm. Read about it.
What's going on right now, leaching plutonium radioactivity into the groundwater and then into the ocean, through the melted, collapsed containment tank, IS NUCLEAR FALLOUT.
So the question isn't "whether" fallout, it's HOW MUCH FOR HOW LONG. Right now we're looking at destroying the life in the Pacific Ocean over hundreds of years.
An exploding nuclear warhead can now be tuned to limit its fallout. All we need is the fireball to burn up the already melted pile of plutonium. Yes, there will be fallout, but brief and limited. Unlike the absolute disaster for centuries that is happening right now.
And really, what's the alternative? Let it keep leaking radioactivity for centuries without containment? Great solution. Yep.
As I recall there were some valves that were not set in a failsafe manner if there were no power, but certainly a lack of generators is related.
Burn up Plutonium? What is it made of, oak?
You mean DISPERSE it, that is what would happen.
bkmk
I’ll see your physical chemistry and raise you fluid dynamics. As a fluid dynamicist, I will note that the convective and diffusive processes take a lot of time and the naughty bits will undoubtedly deposit themselves non-uniformly over the entire Pacific Rim and most likely preferentially along coasts where people live and eat the sea life. There are any number of numerical calculations that indicate this. Checkmate!
Fukishima's problem was a 30 ft. wall of water that damaged backup systems and wiped out power to the controls at the plant. No circulating coolant, and you have a problem.
Yes, there was physical damage to the plant from the quake prior to the tsunami, but the fault is out beneath the ocean, offshore.
No, I mean burn it.
Like oak.
Plutonium ignites at 560 degrees centigrade.
A nuclear bomb fireball is ONE HUNDRED MILLION DEGREES CENTIGRADE.
Burn it.
Like oak.
Post copies of the papers.
Burning does NOT change an atom. Burning is oxidation, it does not change the individual atoms.
I see. Not only are you ignorant, but you’re lazy. Look ‘em up yourself, nimrod.
Spare me your grade school thinking. The point I'm making to all you nervous Nellies is that the problem is the concentration of radioactive materials. Vast dispersion at the molecular level of the MOX fuel, as would happen through a nuclear fireball, ends the concentration problem. Burned, vaporized, electron-stripped uranium and plutonium would reoxidize while being widely separated atoms, which would then be absorbed by the environment. And yes, that would be safer and quicker than letting this hot MOX slag heap trickle into the Pacific for a few hundred years (or more). The environment can, and has, safely absorbed widely spread low radiation with negligible harm.
And spare us all your anti-physics and anti-common sense thinking.
Chernobyl spread it around quite nicely thank you. And it was Very detectable over a very large area. In general, sure, “dilution is the solution to pollution”. BUT, even better is containing or limiting it rather than spreading it around.
By the way, I am fairly positive that Japan would not agree to being nuked again. Just saying.
Send Jimmy Carter over there........
Dr. Edna Casey: Mrs. Carter, your husband was exposed to massive doses of radiation. Now this has affected the entire cell structure of his body and greatly accelerated the growth process.
Rosalyn Carter: Well, what does that mean?
Dr. Edna Casey: It means, Mrs. Carter, your husband, President Carter, has become [ camera zooms in on Dr. Edna Casey ] The amazing colossal president.
Rosalyn Carter: Well how big is he?
Dr. Edna Casey: Well Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?
[ Rodney Dangerfield enters ]
Rodney Dangerfield: How do you do, how are you?
Ross Denton: Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?
Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!
Rosalyn Carter: Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!
Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!
Rosalyn Carter: Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!
Rodney Dangerfield: I don’t want to upset you lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!
Rosalyn Carter: No! No! No!
Ross Denton: Rodney, thank you very much. You can go.
Rodney Dangerfield: It’s my pleasure. He’s way up there, lady! you know what I mean?
i have several items of laundry that have experienced a nuclear accident ... after last fall's chili cook-off as i recall
It is relatively insoluable in water, so the uptake from the digestive tract is virtually zero. Inhaled, however, the PuO2 is an alpha emitter, and will cause problems (lung cancer) over time.
Rocky Flats had problems with particulate PuO2 iirc.
“US Navy? Carriers, Subs, and people who know how to play safely with nuclear power. “
Japan earthquake: US aircraft carrier sails into radioactive cloud
Wow. Even more reason to clean up the mess. (I do kind of remember that)
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