Comments on: New Study: Fukushima Released Twice as Much Radiation as Official Estimate Claimed

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:58:33 +0000

CANDU reactors are inherntly safer. Two of them fueled with Thorium runningin China toda. Thorium fueled LFTR reactors are a proven fact. CANDU reactors can be fueled with waste fuel from Uranium fueled reactors and reduce these wastes to heat abnd relatively benign waste. Google CANDU reactors see Wikpedia site, they do so have a Thorium cycle, the do so have a waste cycle. \
Why were they suppressed? http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971 tells the story? Bill Gates “escapes” the American Nuclear Establishment, goes to China to break custom and develope better reactors along other lines of design – http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/07/technology-bill-gates-china-nuclear-reactor.html

By: Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor)

Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:18:04 +0000

@Becky: There’s a link to the study in the post: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/11/28319/2011/acpd-11-28319-2011.html

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:25:24 +0000

One important thing to remember about cesium from reactors is that unlike the cesium from nuclear bombs, much of the reactor cesium is 134 Cs. This isotope has a shorter halflife (2 years) than 137 Cs, the primary bomb isotope.

By: Chrysoprace

Chrysoprace — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:25:24 +0000

I lived most of my life able to see the nearby nuclear plant from any tall hill. I live in Japan now. I still support nuclear power over fossil fuels.

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:33:11 +0000

Is this study published? And if so, what journal please? I would love to read a thorough account of their study and what they found. Thank you.

By: Puppetmistress

Puppetmistress — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:30:47 +0000

Why am I not surprised?

By: Ivan Berg

Ivan Berg — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:43:12 +0000

Official Truth is that 0.4 MCi of radiation was released total – hydrogen explosion from reactive zirconium uncladding of fuel elements (volatiles) plus cores and cooling pond seawater flushing (a broad menu of the heavier 2/3 of the Periodic Table). The real truth is closer to 3000 MCi, the lower estimate of Chernobyl.

A mammoth patch of tsunami debris is riding north Pacific currents east. Under it is the fission waste that is not diluting much horizontally or vertically. It will take out the Pacific fishery,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Current
No failure to launch.
http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2010/11/North_Pacific_Subtropical_Convergence_Zone.jpg
All I want for Christmas is my beta-counts.

The big hope is the Pacific Garbage Path. Stagnant high air pressure depresses sea level, plus spin imparted by the gyre. Everything in the Pacific near it slides downhill. If flotsam and radwaste do not get caught in the Garbage patch,

http://nature.ca/explore/di-ef/wdgc_img01_e.cfm,

that crud and radwaste deposits in Oregon (Curtis Ebbesmeyer and the Nike sneakers), then flows north and south along the coast.

ENorth America will be sooo Officially surprised in 2012. This is a fine time to buy a handheld mini-Geiger counter (the Russian Terra-P is superb (~$(USD)400, as is its computer-interfacable and more expensive brother). If you eat fish, even canned tuna, you want to do a field survey before purchase.