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Data collected by NASA and a Russian-Austrian collaboration show that astronauts on the ISS are subjected to about 1 millisievert of radiation per day, about the same as someone would get from natural sources on Earth in a whole year. Spending three months in these conditions translates into about one-tenth the long-term cancer risk incurred by regular smokers.
Originally posted by LittleBlackEagle
the area around the site would become so hot that no equipment known to mankind could get near it for hundreds to thousands of years, let alone humans.
One and a half years later, the consensus seems to be that the site of the Fukushima nuclear accident cannot be cleaned up or contained until future generations invent the technology to do so, Washington’s Blog notes:
World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku said recently: “It will take years to invent a new generation of robots able to withstand the radiation.” The world leader in decommissioning nuclear reactors, and one of the main contractors hired to clean up Fukushima – EnergySolutions – made a similar point in May:
Concerning the extraction of fuel debris [at Fukushima], “There is no technology which may be directly applied,” said [top EnergySolutions executive] Morant.A top American government nuclear expert – William D. Magwood – told the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works:
There will need to be new technologies and new methodologies created to be able to enable them to clean the site up and some of these technologies don’t exist yet, so there’s a long way to go with that…There’s a long, long way to go.
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Build a rocket.
Send it to the sun.
Problem solved.
Originally posted by moniesisfun
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Build a rocket.
Send it to the sun.
Problem solved.
You need to turn off the t.v. this isn't futurama.
We can't risk sending it in a somewhat controlled explosive penis with a trajectory to space on the hope that it doesn't explode and spew out back on this rock.
Even if we were insane enough to take that risk, how the hell are you going to contain that radioactivity to the extent that you can chunk it on this massive ship?
I like lala land as well, but c'mon now!edit on 18-10-2012 by moniesisfun because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
I'm just wondering.
Did anybody at the time, during the construction of these things think outloud?
" Hey bob?"
"Yeah Jim?"
" You think building Nuclear Reactors on the side of the ocean, close to the most active tectonic hotspots on the planet is a good idea?"
" Um..Some science guys said it was a good idea, and that they planned for all disasters.."
Really?
It just seems like the whole thing was meant to fail from the beginning. You'd have to be an idiot to think that the location for those was a good idea.
~Tenth
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
reply to post by moniesisfun
It seems you're pretty educated about the subject, so I have a question.
Are the temperatures reached known for the exposed fuel rods ? and if so do you have an estimate ?
Originally posted by moniesisfun
You are asking what the current temperatures are for the exposed fuel rods, or what the temperatures could possibly reach if the fuel rods are exposed?
the hypothesis derived from a 1967 report by a group of nuclear physicists, headed by W. K. Ergen.[17]
The geographic, planet-piercing concept of the China syndrome derives from the misperception that China is the antipode of the United States; to many Americans, it is the “the other side of the world”.[18][19][20] Moreover, the hypothetical transit of a meltdown product to the other side of the Earth (i.e. China) ignores the fact that the Earth's gravity tends to pull all masses towards its center. Assuming a meltdown product could persist in a mobile molten form for long enough to reach the center of the Earth; gravity would prevent it continuing to the other side.