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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)72. Plutonium is an issue.
A Public Service Announcement on Plutonium
DOE-STD-1128-98
Guide of Good Practices for Occupational Radiological Protection in Plutonium Facilities
EXCERPT...
4.2.3 Characteristics of Plutonium Contamination
There are few characteristics of plutonium contamination that are unique. Plutonium
contamination may be in many physical and chemical forms. (See Section 2.0 for the many
potential sources of plutonium contamination from combustion products of a plutonium fire
to radiolytic products from long-term storage.) The one characteristic that many believe is
unique to plutonium is its ability to migrate with no apparent motive force. Whether from
alpha recoil or some other mechanism, plutonium contamination, if not contained or
removed, will spread relatively rapidly throughout an area.
SOURCE (PDF file format): http://www.hss.doe.gov/nuclearsafety/techstds/docs/standard/DOE-STD-1128-2008.pdf
BTW: Where did you get "a few milligrams?" It looks like tons from the spent fuel pool went airborne during the explosion that claimed seven lives we never seem to hear about anymore. Indefensible.
DOE-STD-1128-98
Guide of Good Practices for Occupational Radiological Protection in Plutonium Facilities
EXCERPT...
4.2.3 Characteristics of Plutonium Contamination
There are few characteristics of plutonium contamination that are unique. Plutonium
contamination may be in many physical and chemical forms. (See Section 2.0 for the many
potential sources of plutonium contamination from combustion products of a plutonium fire
to radiolytic products from long-term storage.) The one characteristic that many believe is
unique to plutonium is its ability to migrate with no apparent motive force. Whether from
alpha recoil or some other mechanism, plutonium contamination, if not contained or
removed, will spread relatively rapidly throughout an area.
SOURCE (PDF file format): http://www.hss.doe.gov/nuclearsafety/techstds/docs/standard/DOE-STD-1128-2008.pdf
BTW: Where did you get "a few milligrams?" It looks like tons from the spent fuel pool went airborne during the explosion that claimed seven lives we never seem to hear about anymore. Indefensible.
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From the article "Tepco must perpetually pour water over the melted cores of reactors 1, 2, and 3...
Poll_Blind
May 2013
#2
Their worries are founded. Many have stopped buying products from Japan as well as from California
socialsecurityisAAA
May 2013
#3
It's more than you've come up with. Not a single article. No journal entries. No links. Nothing.
Octafish
May 2013
#53
Yeah, it's easy to fix this thing right FBaggins? You always underestimated this disaster
flamingdem
May 2013
#9
Not backing you up. Those are your words, minimizing the danger and defending the indefensible.
Octafish
May 2013
#54
The open-to the air fuel pool with all the debris and crap sticking out? That fuel pool?
Octafish
May 2013
#85
So what if they put a cover over it? The thing exploded sending plutonium fuel all over Honshu.
Octafish
May 2013
#99
I don't live apart from nature. Again, you seem incapable of understanding context.
AtheistCrusader
May 2013
#30
You forget that you're one of the few things that nuke and anti-nuke here agree on.
FBaggins
May 2013
#64
it is at sea level it will always flood! incoming radioactive isotopes to the west coast usa
Sunlei
May 2013
#18
Except that the article in the OP says they're doing exactly that for everything but tritium
caraher
May 2013
#42
The pollution is, and will continue to be produced by this damaged reactor complex regardless of
AtheistCrusader
May 2013
#87
Does anyone here really think that contaminated water hasnt been already dumped into the ocean??
darkangel218
May 2013
#52
Well, almost half of the represented material was dumped in a very uncontrolled manner in the early
AtheistCrusader
May 2013
#92