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But if we stick to the raw data on fuel Tepco plant accident, there was, at the time of the earthquake of March 11, 2011, 548 assemblies in the heart of the reactor 3. And 30% of 548, this is 164 MOX assemblies
The U.K. is shipping 8 MOX fuel assemblies to the Kansai Electric Power Company's Takahama 4 reactor. Approximately 32 fuel assemblies have been fabricated in Belgium for the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima 3 reactor. The two ships, the Pacific Pintail and the Pacific Teal, will leave from the French port of Cherbourg and the U.K. port, Barrow-in-Furness. The combined MOX orders these ships will carry contain an estimated 450 kgs. of weapons-usable plutonium, enough for nearly 60 nuclear weapons. MOX is classified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as a Class 1 nuclear material requiring the highest level of security. Plutonium in fresh MOX fuel can be extracted by a straightforward chemical process.
Maybe because they know there is nothing that can be done.
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 3n19m470
Originally posted by amongus
reply to post by TheCoffinman
No offense OP, but...ok, maybe do take offense.
Why would someone with almost 3,000 posts...such as yourself...post an article from a source you KNOW is satire? Not reputable? Why?
Why would a poster with 2,500+ posts ,like you, continually portray yourself as a jackass? Seriously, your first two posts consisted of nothing but the name of the source used and thumbs down symbols... And now you are gonna call this satire when the op is concerned about the future of our species due to an obvious danger? Now I'm starting to wonder if this is a mere portrayal or perhaps, the real you?
Originally posted by gameisupman
And I totally get it, most people who post threads like this and are into conspiracy stuff have a need to feel special. Maybe they hate their life, or maybe life is too boring for them....but by wrapping themselves up in nonsense like this they make themselves feel special, better than those who, in their minds, are sheeple.
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Originally posted by disclosure
How incredibly stupid is mankind to have ever constructed energy systems that could, if catastrophically failed, result in the possible deaths of millions if not billions of people? If you step back and really consider the complete idiocy of the decision by humanity to purse nuclear power, it is profoundly astonishing.
Originally posted by amongus
reply to post by TheCoffinman
No offense OP, but...ok, maybe do take offense.
Why would someone with almost 3,000 posts...such as yourself...post an article from a source you KNOW is satire? Not reputable? Why?
quoted from this story
Each Fukushima spent fuel pool holds about 100 metric tons, he says, while each US pool holds from 500-700 metric tons. A single pool fire would release catastrophic amounts of radioactivity, rendering 17-22,000 square miles of area uninhabitable. That’s about the size of New Hampshire and Vermont – from one pool fire.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
10,000 assemblies in Fukushima vs 1 assembly at Chernobyl.
But somehow even though at Fuku one reactor has MOX which is far more dangerous, there is only 85 Chernobyls worth of Cesium available to release?
This is very simple math.
How does 10,000 : 1 ratio turn into
85 : 1
??????edit on 1-5-2012 by muzzleflash because: (no reason given)
How incredibly stupid is mankind to have ever constructed energy systems that could, if catastrophically failed, result in the possible deaths of millions if not billions of people? If you step back and really consider the complete idiocy of the decision by humanity to purse nuclear power, it is profoundly astonishing.