How about some actual quantities, instead of just saying "huge" amounts of radioactivites.
"The total spent reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daichi site contains *nearly half of the total amount of Cs-137* estimated by the NCRP to have been released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl, and world-wide reprocessing plants (~270 million curies or ~9.9 E+18 Becquerel)." Source: http://www.fukushima311watchdogs.org/share.php?partager=1260 Note: this source is definitely not pro-nuclear. The storage pool at reactor 4 contains about 1500 spent fuel rods. This amounts to less than 1/6 of the total spent reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daichi site. If all of the fuel at Daichi amounts to less than half of the Cs-137 previously released into the environment, release of all the Cs-137 in the storage pool at reactor 4 would amount to less than 8% of the amount previously released into the environment. As stated previously, there is no conceivable mechanism that would release all the material in the storage pool at reactor 4. Since the half-life of Cs-137 is 30 years, the majority of the previously released amounts are still active in the environment. Any release of Cs-137 from the storage pool at reactor 4 would only increase the amount of Cs-137 in the environment by a negligible amount, certainly not enough to endanger human life anywhere but the in the immediate surrounding of the plant. People who continue to spread this fear-mongering propaganda have zero scientific credibility. If there is a further accident at Fukushima-Daichi that results in a release of some of the spent fuel, the fear-mongers will be responsible for more bad health effects through added stress on the scientifically illiterate than the radiation release could ever cause. > Arnie Gunderson, who used to build nuclear fuel pools, has stated if this > building collapses he sees it likely to produce sufficient fallout to > endanger human life everywhere in the Northern hemisphere. See ENENews.com > for ongoing reports on Fukushima. > >
