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To: nvscanman

You have no comprehension of the quantity of nuclear material burned at Fukushima. The dumbasses stored decades of spent fuel rods inside the plants in cooling pools. When the pools drained the rods ~burned~ and aerosolized.

When the reactors lost power so did the cooling pools which contained many times the number of fuel rods as the reactors. And Reactor 3 used MOX rods with a significant plutonium content. Dozens of MOX rods were stored inside #3 and subsequently burned up when their pools drained.


6 posted on 01/11/2014 3:02:20 PM PST by Justa
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To: Justa

burned up?


9 posted on 01/11/2014 3:11:03 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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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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