tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post9102041025216635447..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Update on the Japanese Nuclear Crisis: Not a Pretty PictureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-51679469031957531482011-06-01T12:39:43.782-07:002011-06-01T12:39:43.782-07:00My comment is for all of you interested in followi...My comment is for all of you interested in following the incident. Focus on information that gives you and understanding of the Iodine-131/Cesium-137 concentration ratio. Iodine-131 as all short lived isotopes are created by fission, and should be decreasing to half in terms of Becquerels/m2^ or Liter or m^3 every 8 days. <br />Don't care about anything else you hear, just look for sources that allow you to estimate this ratio. If you don't see it go to half every 8 days, then fission is still on-going and the drama is alive, meaning that the worst case scenarios are still possible. Once you see that this ratio keeps on going down, then we are in territory where even talking about controlling the disaster starts to make sense. Before that, we are in a bomb defusing scenario with thousands of tons of nuclear fuel involved. An Engineer has given some examples of the levels of energy involved in just 1 nuclear reactor in lunaticoutpostJuliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102881121019057660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-56100667208286570302011-05-31T23:21:58.695-07:002011-05-31T23:21:58.695-07:00But you know that there is no crisis as the radiat...But you know that there is no crisis as the radiation experts have not released advice to citizens of the Northern Hemisphere. <br /><br />Don't you?<br /><br />DON'T YOU????????Fungus the Photo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14879977479841544025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-24663930558909212632011-05-31T19:44:04.163-07:002011-05-31T19:44:04.163-07:00Listen to David Lochbaum, nuclear engineer with th...Listen to David Lochbaum, nuclear engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, explain his testimony to Congress in May. Lochbaum says Fukushima-like accidents, with the same reactor tech, can happen at many plants in America.<br /><br />Except the U.S. has many times the spent fuel at each reactor. And, at many reactors, half the battery back-up time Fukushima 1 had.<br /><br />24 minute update, including the latest data released by Tepco of the first hour after the quake, from Radio Ecoshock.<br /><br />http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Lochbaum_LoFi.mp3Alex Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141662062651853725noreply@blogger.com