Xenon 133 Dispersion Animation - Radionuclide Has Blanketed Entire United States

Update: we are truly amazed that presenting what is a pure fact without any spin associated to it, can generate such an outbreak of insecurity and outright fear-driven responses. We had always expected that readers here can receive and interpret facts as presented, instead of demanding filtering for what some deem is unpleasant information. We urge that sub-segment to immediately and permanently orient their attention to other media outlets that does the prefiltering for them, as per the government's mandate of not spreading panic.

Radioactive Xenon 133 (5.243 day half life) has now reached the entire Eastern seaboard, and soon will likely cover the entire world.

Additionally, below is a projection of radioactive Iodine over Japan...

And radioactive Cesium over the Pacific

Source: Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG)

Comments

[williambanzai7]

What worries me is the stupidity and corrupt mentality that designs nuclear power plants in such an irresponsible fashion has drifted all over the globe. 

[Byte Me]

Yeah well WB7,

I'm having GE in as the architects of my next house 'cos I'm desperate for one of these retro-style septic tank in the loft space.

(Should I be giving ideas to you like this I ask myself..)

[Ident 7777 economy]

Blame BORAX. In fact, blame the BORAX experiements, BORAX-I thru BORAX-V (all five) where it appears the validity of the BWR concept was worked out by Samuel Untermyer II that a reactor using direct boiling of water would be practical in a nuclear reactor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BORAX_experiments

Quoting:

"The final, deliberately destructive test in 1954 produced an unexpectedly large power excursion that "instead of the melting of a few fuel plates, the test melted a major fraction of the entire core." However, this core meltdown and release of nuclear fuel and fission products provided additional useful data to improve mathematical models. The tests proved key safety principles of the design of modern nuclear power reactors. "

Also: http://books.google.com/books?id=vD0rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=borax+...

[Byte Me]

133-Xe ain't so bad, half-life of 5d or so and it's chemically inert except for a bit of extreme fluoride chemistry.

What it DOES show is that significant fission product loss has taken place and that it happened several days ago (think #3 blowoff). I want someone to correct me here, but isn't 133Xe generally produced from Pu fission?

What Pu concentration were TEPCO up to in their MOX? And what was the SFR inventory and the reactor inventory? Any guesses any one,?

..But of course, they have it under control -- well duh, they've certainly got those snippets under control because I can't find them.

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