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@dean If you consider only the $$$ cost of Nuclear Fuel Powered Stations from the initial stages of development to the eventual decommissioning of the NFPS when it becomes unsafe to operate or obsolete, I think you'll find NFPS are far from cost effective and it is the public that foots the bill for this technology not only financially but in the event of an accident the financial costs have little meaning considering the long term devastation to all life forms from nuclear fission in a state of criticality, IMHO.

why not use ° ?

@elainekirk sorry was tech talk on other board.

although to be fair, it's not like there is much in the way of news anymore :)

@Markfm So, we are stuck again in differentials.why not post a low and high, this way no room for speculation ?

@Scilla Obviously, there is surface and ground temp.....so the ground temp even if higher to cause evap, cannot happen if surface is below boiling

@dean, yes, I ahd to be away for bit.

@Bobby1 The fact thats it is "heavy" makes no diffference to how far it can travel.
The term heavy charged particle refers to those energetic particles whose mass is one atomic mass unit or greater. This category includes alpha particles, together with protons, deuterons, fission fragments, and other energetic heavy particles often produced in accelerators. These particles carry at least one electronic charge, and they interact with matter primarily through the Coulomb force that exists between the positive charge on the particle and the negative charge on electrons that are part of the absorber material. In this case, the force is an attractive one between the two opposite charges.

"The concentration levels of radioactive iodine and cesium in groundwater near the troubled Groundwater radiation level at nuke plant rises: "Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have increased up to several dozen times in one week, suggesting that toxic water has seeped from nearby reactor turbine buildings or elsewhere." english.kyodonews.jp

@sims Cesium and iodine are showing up without a blast.

@Bobby that's because especially iodine has a very low boiling point.. so it gets vaporized if sufficiently hot and escapes with steam.. things like plutonium have very high boiling/vapour points

@dean, I am asking because of the enormous size of reactors # 5 and 6 at Fukushima. I recall the average size of a block in Germany as being about 400MW. The max number of blocks is three. Hence, #6 alone is larger than an entire German plant.

@Markfm I learned most of my German from watching German TV on cable, reading German websites and my hubby who is partially fluent in it. The character change totally throws me. I need to find that software language program they advertise on the boob toob, I think they have a Japanese one. :-)

@Nancy German language is very precise.......lovei it

The Emergency Petition for the NRC filed today by 45 groups across the U.S. calls on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend all reactor licensing until lessons can be learned from the Fukushima disaster, a thorough analysis can be done of U.S. safety systems and new rules and guidelines can be established based on that analysis. See the press release and read about it in today’s article from the International Business Times. blog.cleanenergy.org

After Fukushima Groups Ask NRC To Suspend Licensing Plants By Jesse Emspak April 14, 2011 2:43 PM EDT
At a press conference, the groups said they were concerned that the NRC was bowing to pressure from the nuclear industry and moving forward with new plant licenses. The major concern, they said, was that operators may not have studied what happens when grid power to cooling systems is lost.

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Read more: www.ibtimes.com

Read more: www.ibtimes.com