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Bombs are very efficient at converting nuclear material into heat/light etc. so they deliver a fraction of the amount of isotopes to the environment compared with the 3 nuclear core melt downs in Japan right now.


19 posted on 08/15/2016 3:58:07 PM PDT by ransomnote
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Bombs are very efficient at converting nuclear material into heat/light etc. so they deliver a fraction of the amount of isotopes to the environment compared with the 3 nuclear core melt downs in Japan right now.

Plutonium critical mass, for a bomb, is about 11 kg. The amount of radioactive material in the reactors was many, many times that.

31 posted on 08/15/2016 4:17:45 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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