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In reply to the discussion: Senator Wyden: Fukushima Worse Than Reported [View all]FBaggins
(28,706 posts)35. Lol... I've only give you facts.
Or offered up anything approaching any reality of the situation. Offered no official reports. You are just mumbling.
Can you tell me which of your posts includes those official reports, etc?
But hey... this shouldn't be hard. Here's one from almost a year ago.
The science that has been released says that the rods having been exposed to air created hydrogen gas which exploded.
Close, but no cigar. It says that the overheating rods in the cores (and not "exposed to air"
created hydrogen gas which exploded after it was vented from containment. It nowhere says that fuel in the spent fuel pools had anything to do with the explosions. Nor does any report say that broken piping caused the pools to drain.
The entire scenario exists only in your imagination.
BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW
You can't use a lack of clarity on things that can't yet be known as an excuse to posit just any theory you like. You can't just make up BS about spent fuel rods exploding if they're exposed to air in less than ten years. You can't say that "plutonium spread around the world" when they have yet to identify any plutonium off the reactor site in concentrations higher than what existed pre-fukushima.
Can you tell me which of your posts includes those official reports, etc?
But hey... this shouldn't be hard. Here's one from almost a year ago.
US: spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake
Water used to cool radioactive waste at the stricken nuclear complex in Japan did not dry up, as earlier feared, U.S. regulators said Wednesday in a reversal of a claim that pitted U.S. officials against Japan in the days after that country's nuclear disaster.
U.S. officials, most notably Nuclear Regulatory Chairman Gregory Jaczko, had warned that all the water was gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's troubled nuclear plant, which would have raised the possibility of widespread nuclear fallout.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4626
Water used to cool radioactive waste at the stricken nuclear complex in Japan did not dry up, as earlier feared, U.S. regulators said Wednesday in a reversal of a claim that pitted U.S. officials against Japan in the days after that country's nuclear disaster.
U.S. officials, most notably Nuclear Regulatory Chairman Gregory Jaczko, had warned that all the water was gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's troubled nuclear plant, which would have raised the possibility of widespread nuclear fallout.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4626
The science that has been released says that the rods having been exposed to air created hydrogen gas which exploded.
Close, but no cigar. It says that the overheating rods in the cores (and not "exposed to air"
The entire scenario exists only in your imagination.
BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW
You can't use a lack of clarity on things that can't yet be known as an excuse to posit just any theory you like. You can't just make up BS about spent fuel rods exploding if they're exposed to air in less than ten years. You can't say that "plutonium spread around the world" when they have yet to identify any plutonium off the reactor site in concentrations higher than what existed pre-fukushima.
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