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Posted on 03/15/2011 4:29:24 AM PDT by Errant
High temperatures inside the building that houses the plant's No. 4 reactor may have caused fuel rods sitting in a pool to ignite or explode, the plant's owner said.
By Tuesday afternoon, Edano said radiation readings -- which had reached dangerously high levels at the plant earlier -- had decreased.
"We have to monitor the situation closely, but the high concentration of radioactive material is not emitting constantly from the No. 4 reactor right now," he said.
Edano said readings at the gate at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday (2:30 am. ET) were 596.4 microsieverts per hour -- compared to a high reading of 11,930 microsieverts per hour at 9 a.m (8 p.m. ET Monday).
Analysts also have their eyes on reactors No. 5 and 6 at the plant, Edano said, where cooling systems were "not functioning well" and the temperature had dropped slightly Tuesday.
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on vacation or planning for the next state dinner !
Nobody died from Three Mile Island. Many workers at Chernobyl died but only two people from the surrounding town died from the radiation. They had not been evacuated. There is no fallout danger in North America from these plants.
We used to play with mercury too. We had a jelly jar half full and would roll it around in our hands, splash it and dribble it down paper, squish it into bits and watch it reform larger puddles....we loved the stuff. It isn’t that harmful unless you breath the vapor or it it (fish)
We never drank it though:
http://www.newmoa.org/prevention/mercury/projects/legacy/religious.cfm
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Did the Hiroshima and Nagasaki open air blasts cause the US to evacuate the West coast?
I have been dying to ask that question.
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