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Pu can get dispersed my natural mechanisms. Takes a little longer is all.by Jim Carver 3/28/2011 3:17:30 PM
@MaryMary Five locations. Out of how many tested?by radioguy 3/28/2011 3:17:34 PM
Question is did they even sample outside the plant...by Markfm 3/28/2011 3:17:46 PM
CNN reporting the story now...."Plutonium in soil at plant".by James Ward 3/28/2011 3:18:02 PM- @Sky Well put.by Jim Carver 3/28/2011 3:18:19 PM
@Markfm That might be next week's report.by es 3/28/2011 3:18:26 PM
@Bobby1 Imagine the local contamination - price for becoming a manufacturing powerby George Gibb 3/28/2011 3:18:47 PM- @Jim Carver Some salmon migrate west-east across the pacific and back later in their lives. What other fisheries share US and Japanese waters.by radioguy 3/28/2011 3:18:52 PM
@Jeff I finally found something: allthingsnuclear.org This says that 32 units of MOX were loaded in Sept 2010. This www.ans.org says that there are 32 units in the reactor at the time of the accident. There aren't any articles explicitly stating that there are no MOX rods in the pool....to me it seems like the opposite should be true, they should say something if there are.by borrrden 3/28/2011 3:19:02 PM
@Jojo @Jim Carver - it isn't even close. See russp.orgby Joshua Diamond 3/28/2011 3:19:35 PM
Does anyone have a link to realiable sources on the health risks of plutonium?by Kat 3/28/2011 3:19:49 PM
@George Gibb And remember the story of the travelers from Japan detained in China. Presumably plutonium contaminated them also.by Bobby1 3/28/2011 3:20:16 PM- @Markfm Just my opinion, but I would think sampling the soil outside the plant would be easier than testing for plutonium inside the facility.by James Ward 3/28/2011 3:20:39 PM
- @Kat www.ncbi.nlm.nih.govby borrrden 3/28/2011 3:20:52 PM
@Joshua Diamond - your link doesn't work.by Lethbridgean 3/28/2011 3:20:54 PM- @radioguy Yeah all kinds of things, migratory birds, our own transportation systems, people themselves, pollen, you name it.by Jim Carver 3/28/2011 3:21:03 PM
- @Bobby1 I only seen the news flash and it didn't specify whatby George Gibb 3/28/2011 3:21:11 PM
- @ borrrden thank youby Kat 3/28/2011 3:21:30 PM
The fuel rod inventory has for a long time been enumerated in the JAIF reports, for example this one: www.jaif.or.jp It's about line 6-7 in the table.by Sky 3/28/2011 3:21:32 PM
@Bobby: Speculation re: Chinese?? Curious to your rationale.by Karen Warren 3/28/2011 3:21:44 PM- en.wikipedia.org Plutonium Toxicityby john 3/28/2011 3:21:44 PM
- This Pu fear seems a bit overblown to me. Chernobyl also spread around quite a bit of the stuff, but most of the health damage and contamination came from plain old Cs. People should be more worried about how far that is being spread around tbh.by Sims 3/28/2011 3:22:38 PM
- 240 is for weapons so I think that it is from moxby john 3/28/2011 3:23:00 PM
The plutonium found in the plant made me think of the idiot British reporter they had on ABC this morning. He went up to the plant gate in his SUV wearing no protection at all, got out and started running around.by Nancy 3/28/2011 3:23:21 PM
@radioguy...here is the ENTIRE statement... URGENT: Plutonium detected in soil at Fukushima nuke plant: TEPCO
TOKYO, March 28, Kyodo
Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday.
The operator of the nuclear complex said that the plutonium is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
==Kyodoby MaryMary 3/28/2011 3:23:22 PM
@All Plutonium is really bad news. I feel like crying. when it's expose to *moist* air it oxidizes, that makes the sample expandby 70%, turning into a powder which can spontaneously *combust*! It's one of the main causes of military nuke accidents. It gets taken up by bone marrow- no getting rid of it- and causes blood cell generation to be severly impacted. Depending on which fissile isotope in the fuel, half life is either 376,000 yrs. or 24,100 yrs. omg...by marie rich 3/28/2011 3:23:31 PM- @Karen Warren If the plutonium source was the fuel rods, it is likely that it has been spreading for some time.by Bobby1 3/28/2011 3:23:34 PM
- @john They're being careful to stress that as a by-product in could be coming from any of the units, not necessarily reactor 3.by es 3/28/2011 3:24:38 PM
- @all at least it won't go far, unless there's a precipatating event- big fire, big explosion. It's heavyby marie rich 3/28/2011 3:24:51 PM
OPINION: REMEMBER THIS? I believe it was decided then the situation was unmanageable. Notice we have heard no more about it. March 25, 2011
UN Insider
Category: UN Direct
Japan: this morning the SG convened a meeting of heads of agencies, funds and programs (including IAEA DG, UNDP Administrator, etc.), on the international response to the developments resulting from the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. www.undispatch.comby Sin 3/28/2011 3:24:53 PM- @all Can't overblow the significence of Pu.by Jim Carver 3/28/2011 3:25:23 PM
"Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday." detected at 5 locations, but out of how many tested? At what precise levels? The lack of information is frustratingby sheilatoulouse 3/28/2011 3:25:29 PM- @All Morning collection of news stories pinnedby George Gibb 3/28/2011 3:25:36 PM
- @jim sorry...it's just that I've read about some sub navy nuke guys, it was sad....by marie rich 3/28/2011 3:26:08 PM
- @Sin: I do. IAEA must have stepped it up the chain-of-command.by Karen Warren 3/28/2011 3:26:29 PM
@george, thanks for all your workby mainejen 3/28/2011 3:26:57 PM- @sheilatoulouse The press conference is ongoing so details still emerging.by es 3/28/2011 3:27:16 PM
If your looking for a plutonium contamination event, check out the 1966 Palomares crash en.wikipedia.org It resulted in an area of plutonium contaminated soil in Spain, and also some soil taken to the US.by kgriff 3/28/2011 3:27:25 PM- @Bobby: I understand. We all do.by Karen Warren 3/28/2011 3:27:31 PM
- Fromby Sky 3/28/2011 3:27:41 PM
- Sorry my bad. From "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accident" re: presence of MOX fuel in No. 3
From September 2010, unit 3 has been fueled by mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.[90]
At the time of the accident, reactor No. 1 contained 400 fuel assemblies, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 5 548 fuel assemblies, and No. 6 764 fuel assemblies in their respective reactors. Reactor No. 4 was empty of fuel assemblies in its reactor, but had 1,331 spent fuel assemblies in its cooling pool. Reactor No. 1 had 292, No. 2 587, No. 3 514, No. 5 946, and No. 6 876 spent fuel assemblies in their respective cooling pools.by Sky 3/28/2011 3:28:45 PM - @kgriff I see your crash and raise you a Hanford Site en.wikipedia.orgby borrrden 3/28/2011 3:28:54 PM
- @Jim carver tell that to the population of Ireland.the Irish sea is significantly contaminated with Pu thanks to sellafield, yet most people don't make a huge fuss about it for some reason.by Sims 3/28/2011 3:29:02 PM
- @George: Thanks for the links. Personally, I'd like to see a little more from the humanitarian side. If it weren't for the people, all this talk would be fruitless, IMHO.by Karen Warren 3/28/2011 3:29:06 PM
- thank you ES, and all. This blog is very informative, even for a layperson. I'm glad you continuted after reuters pulled the plugby sheilatoulouse 3/28/2011 3:29:10 PM
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