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In reply to the discussion: Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)66. The dry well is no longer part of primary containment because it is breached
Actually the 134 were those who have exceeded safe lifetime dose limits. The turnover of staff due to reaching the (newly raised) government dosage limits but not yet exceeding is very high as evidenced by the constant 25% shortfall in staff (Reuters Oct 2013. Many of those workers are not even issued dosimeters (RT Nov 2013)
Comparisons to dams was your idea not mine. I just followed your contorted logic.
You claim that entire towns have not been destroyed, but ignore the fact that they cannot be inhabited, whereas if town are destroyed they can be rapidly rebuilt and rapidly inhabited.
Regarding fish the following is an NHK report quited in ENE news July 2013
Researchers have found high levels of radioactive cesium in fish caught early this month off Hitachi [almost 100 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi] in Ibaraki Prefecture ...
Prefectural officials said 1,037 becquerels of cesium were discovered per kilogram of Japanese sea bass. Thats more than 10 times the government safety limit.
They said it is the 3rd highest level found in marine products in the region. Higher levels were only previously detected in April 2011 one month after the Fukushima nuclear accident. ...
They admitted they dont know why such a high dose was detected more than 2 years after the accident. ...
Prefectural officials said 1,037 becquerels of cesium were discovered per kilogram of Japanese sea bass. Thats more than 10 times the government safety limit.
They said it is the 3rd highest level found in marine products in the region. Higher levels were only previously detected in April 2011 one month after the Fukushima nuclear accident. ...
They admitted they dont know why such a high dose was detected more than 2 years after the accident. ...
You are aware of the problem of latency in cancer calculations? Because, of the thousands who will die from radiation induced cancer, most have yet to appear. However the increase in childhood thyroid cancers does appear to be increasing in Japan as a whole. I have also seen an unreliable report of an increase in Leukemias.
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Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]
FBaggins
Nov 2013
OP
Do they have any detailed plans about how they are going to dismantle them in 20 -50 years?
intaglio
Nov 2013
#2
So you are saying that long lived radio-isotopes are not present in nuclear waste.
intaglio
Nov 2013
#16
Nope... I'm not saying that. Nor most of the rest of your imagined statements.
FBaggins
Nov 2013
#20
And how does the fluid in the primary cooling circuit move through that circuit?
intaglio
Nov 2013
#62