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happerbolic

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12. weapons grade or...
Fri May 25, 2012, 02:51 AM
May 2012

...for (so-called) peaceful power generation doubt there's much difference in the hands of North Korea - their haste in over proving themselves tend to lead to mishaps more readily it seems.

Off that topic,
I wonder if the cesium 135 & 137 dispersal simulations take into account the particulate weight of these elements draping off more than what is shown? Just doesn't seem like the vapor of these heavy isotopes would behave as, or lighter, than air. Didn't a lot of Chernobyl's blow-off taper down pretty drastic by time it reached the more northern stretches of EurAsia? Still a devastating distance, i realize.







as well as the not so chemically reactive, xenon

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