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To: jpsb
jpsb said: "How many fuel rods, how old they are and what % was plutonium when new. "

I read that the total amount of fuel at Fukushima is about 2000 tons and that the six reactors contained 100 tons.

It's complicated to compare the contamination potential of a bomb with that of the Fukushima incident, but there's certainly a lot of "stuff" at Fukushima. What an incredible mess.

60 posted on 04/04/2012 4:00:25 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell; jpsb

The two of you are aware that the fuel rods there contain only 3% enriched uranium when installed, correct? I’ve seen photos of people sitting on fuel rods before delivery to a nuclear facility, and they can do that because the radioactivity is so low. Not true after a runthrough.

The resulting plutonium after fissioning isn’t all that great an amount but it is still ‘hot’. After a few years in a spent fuel pool it can be stored in the open air.


64 posted on 04/04/2012 6:35:53 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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