TEPCO Rose

[RobertEarl]

35. I like education Thanks Pam

Now, I know you get upset when DUmmies like me ask questions, but that's what happens when education happens, right? More damn questions...

So bear with me here...

In your post above, you are saying that reactor produced plutonium can hardly be used to make weapons because: and I quote:

""Commercial power reactors don't produce "weapons grade" plutonium, they produce "reactor grade" plutonium:

The degree to which reactor-grade plutonium is less useful than weapons-grade plutonium for building nuclear weapons is debated, with many sources saying it is difficult or impossible, and others saying it is relatively easy with modern technologies like fusion boosting to overcome predetonation...

Nuclear reactions are much, much faster than any mechanical assembly of the bomb's core. There are isotopes of Plutonium, namely Pu-240 and Pu-242, that spontaneously fission without the introduction of a neutron.""

I think I have figured out what good ol' Arnie has been trying to tell us. This: Fukushima reactor plutonium experienced spontaneous fission.

And in so doing, was not a weapons grade explosion. But that the visual clues and the material clues of ex-containment nuclear debris spread around the world as detailed by this report that you posted elsewhere:

http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/highlights/2011/fukushima-related-measurements-by-the-ctbto/

The CTBTO’s monitoring system, custom-tailored to detecting nuclear explosions, can detect a range of radioactive isotopes, among them Iodine-131 and Caesium-137. Looking at the ratios between the various radioactive isotopes – in particular Caesium-137 – enables the source of the emission to be identified. In the case of the current readings, findings clearly indicate radionuclide releases from a damaged nuclear power plant, which is consistent with the recent accident at Fukushima in Japan.