Three types of plutonium have turned up amid the radioactive contamination on the grounds of the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its owner reported Monday.
The plutonium is a byproduct of nuclear reactions that is also part of the fuel mix at the damaged No. 3 reactor.
It was found in soil at five different points inside the plant grounds, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said late Monday.
Plutonium can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested, but external exposure poses little health risk, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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And one of the polls said 71% of Americans still think Nuclear Energy is safe and clean. Are we really that blind in this country? Time to wake up America!
Come on, I could take a poll of 5 people and claim it represents all of America's views. Polls/Statistics should not be paid attention to unless the source is clearly stated.
Modern technogly, what is the $20 blue tarp suppose to do, make me wonder where the educated people are, I guess like the U.S. they must of cut the budget when it came to science.
The cheap, $20 blue tarp is supposed to keep the surface contamination on the poor guy from blowing into the wind. If it were only your typical fission products, i.e., Cesium-137, Strontium-90, Iodine-131 (which is actually a gas), then they wouldn't need the tarp. But because they're using it, I suspect this guy is covered with Plutonium. Not good.
Lethel dosage for Plutonium .001 miligrams
Uh-oh. I shouldn't have had seconds.
"External exposure poses little health risk, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency". Sure, so we can all just transport it in our pockets, as long as we don't sniff it or lick it!
BREAKING NEWS!!! A large fire breathing lizard has been spotted in the area of the Fukushima Daiichi plant! At last report he was heading south towards Tokyo!
It's not FIRE you tool....it's an atomic heat ray. FFS
There is no safe amount of Plutonium. Plutonium is an Alpha-emitter. Alpha particles are 20 times more ionizing than a Beta particle or a Gamma ray. Alpha particles cannot penetrate the skin, or even a thin sheet of paper. BUT, Plutonium is a bone-seeker so if you ingest Plutonium, it goes to your bones and bone marrow (just like calcium). And it stays there. And it gives off its extremely nasty Alpha particles right there in your bone marrow. And you WILL get bone cancer. It doesn't take very much Plutonium to do this, either. Ingesting Plutonium is, bascially, a death sentence.
This is not a scare tactic. This is the truth. But, don't take my word for it. Look it up for yourself. Get educated!
Form Lenntech.com
"Plutonium is sometimes described in media reports as the most toxic substance known to man, although there is general agreement among experts in the field that this is incorrect. As of 2003, there has yet to be a single human death officially attributed to plutonium exposure. Naturally-occurring radium is about 200 times more radiotoxic than plutonium, and some organic toxins like Botulism toxin are billions of times more toxic than plutonium."
"Considerably larger amounts may cause acute radiation poisoning and death if ingested or inhaled; however, so far, no human is known to have died because of inhaling or ingesting plutonium and many people have measurable amounts of plutonium in their bodies."
The human body doesn't adsorb plutonium in the digestive tract to any great degree – it doesn't pass the intestinal wall because of the size of the molecule.
No problem, because a serious incident can only happen every 14,000 years or so: https://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/risk-of-nuclear-technology/ – Haha.
Surprise Suprise the area is contaminated. I am sure more of the truth will come out in time.
Tha is so true!!! lol jk omg sikee
Stop looking at this disaster through such narrow glasses. This is all the result of us being energy pigs.
RIGHT!!!!!
ye reap what ye sow.
Why are they waiting to bury this reactors? They should have started weeks ago to incase these reactors into sand and concrete for the next few centuries.
They have to wait until the fuel stops BURNING! In the meantime, they dump water on it, to try and stop (or at least slow down) the melting and burning. This water ends up in the ocean. Not good.
This still can get much worse.. Remember the status keeps changing from stable to unknown and back again. They either still dont know what the heck is going on or they are deffinately hidding something big (a reactor melting down). I Dont know which one is worse.
Which is worse? Hard to say. They usually go hand-in-hand. Every time there's a melt or a massive release, you see the same thing. It's what the nuclear industry tends to do. Usually does. They've become quite good at it; and obviously comfortable, too. They only tell the truth when there's nothing dangerous to report.
Great...SO as long as we don't breath or eat will al be just fine.
I wonder what the remaing survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thinking?
They say with their twisted monster mouth: "Relax, we have been there."
i work at burger king and i know plutonium is deadly.
The blue tarp is to cover up the Island of Dr. Moreau radiation injuries.