TEPCO Rose

[PamW]

24. But you need to be an engineer...

Octafish,

But you need to be an engineer to evaluate this properly.

I've heard this from others; "I saw this with my own eyes, and there must have been tons of radioactive material released..."

What you saw was mostly tons of structural material from the plant released. That's where it helps to be an engineer or scientist. Because you are not an engineer or scientist, you don't know what fraction, if any; of that material that you saw dispersed was radioactive. For all you know, 100% of the radioactive material could be safely locked away inside the inverted light-bulb containment and you saw a bunch of structural material from the building around it dispersed.

There's no way anyone can make a proper assessment of how much radioactivity was released if they don't know what parts of the plant are radioactive and what parts are not.

So I categorically REJECT your assertion that you don't need to be a nuclear engineer to make an accurate assessment. Without knowing what is radioactive and what is not; you may have just seen a bunch of structural concrete from the outer building dispersed which is not radioactive.

You have to understand that good scientists and engineers with the national labs were tasked by the President and Congress to get them the best possible analysis of the consequences; and that is the information that I have passed along.

PamW