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To: Justa

I have degrees in Natural Science and Radiologic Technology....I work with
radiation and have done so for 35+ years....what are your bona fides. I know how many tons of material a typical reactor site might have....and I know that only a tiny fraction of it would have aerosolized. Perhape 2-3% of it MIGHT have been dispersed into the Pacific. Better than 95% of it is still there at the reactor site. The site is a real danger to those within 50 or so miles. It’s a significant risk to those out to maybe 100 or so miles. Beyond that the risks become statistical with the danger to any individual from the
material minimal. Your odds of dying in a car crash are hundreds of times greater than of dying from Fukushima if you live more than a couple of
hundred miles from there.


10 posted on 01/11/2014 3:11:36 PM PST by nvscanman
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To: nvscanman

Reading comprehension check.

These aren’t typical reactor sites. Reactors 1 - 6 had spent rods stored in pools within and around the reactor buildings. When the reactors blew many of the in-reactor (elevated) pools were holed and drained while pools outside the building lost coolant.

Fukushima 1-6 housed more than 6300 stored fuel assemblies dating to the 1970s.

When the storage pools lost power and water many of the stored rods burned.

In comparison to the storage pools the fuel in the reactors is negligible.


16 posted on 01/11/2014 3:28:08 PM PST by Justa
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