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Originally posted by cheesy
reply to post by Sek82
this is insane!! why scientists all around the world not helping japanese goverment? thats very dengerous situation!!
Originally posted by TheCoffinman
Diplomat Akio Matsumura is warning that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan may ultimately turn into an event capable of extinguishing all life on Earth.
members.beforeitsnews.com...:_Capable_Of_Extinguishing_All_Life_On_Earth.html
Where is the outrage, the urgency in the world about this??? this is insane!!!edit on 30-4-2012 by TheCoffinman because: word edit
reply to post by magma
I did see an article the other day that talked about the plutonium in the pools could effectively kill 2 billion people.
In recent times, more information about the spent fuel situation at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site has become known. It is my understanding that of the 1,532 spent fuel assemblies in reactor No. 304 assemblies are fresh and unirradiated. This then leaves 1,231 irradiated spent fuel rods in pool No. 4, which contain roughly 37 million curies (~1.4E+18 Becquerel) of long-lived radioactivity. The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident.
The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks.. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters.
Many of our readers might find it difficult to appreciate the actual meaning of the figure, yet we can grasp what 85 times more Cesium-137 than the Chernobyl would mean. It would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.
Originally posted by unityemissions
Why aren't people thinking about this rationally
If Chernobyl took a generation to wipe out approximately 1 million people, and there is ~85 times more cessium which could circle the globe....uh...unless my math is off that's not enough for "capable of extinguishing all life on earth"...
FAIL!!
Originally posted by Another10Pin
Then it will end where it all began?
The Land of the Rising Sun?
And the prevailing winds will take it in which direction?
The ultimate Kamikaze revenge ...
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by muzzleflash
Sorry buddy, I'm going off reports already issued.
If you want to do the calculations yourself, go to it, and show us the proof, otherwise refrain from the fear mongering.edit on 1-5-2012 by unityemissions because: (no reason given)