Published: April 14th, 2011 at 2:24 pm ET
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Japan to Assess Its Dumping of Toxic Water, Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2011:
… A new concern arose late Wednesday with the discovery that the radioactivity of water in reactor No. 4′s spent fuel pool was vastly higher than normal. A sample of water taken Tuesday contained 220 becquerels of iodine-131 per cubic centimeter. That compares with a level of just 0.01 becquerels or less for normal spent fuel pools. Such pools hold previously used nuclear fuel, allowing it to slowly cool down over a matter of years. …
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Published: April 14th, 2011 at 2:24 pm ET
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All the loose nuke material laying everywhere, cracked containment vessel and spraying water and they think the levels will stay the same or go down ?
They may have to wait a couple thousand years to see a slight drop !
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Isn’t this a fission product? Yes, the fuel rods from the hot reactor were put in the pool for storage, so that would distort any comparison to a fuel pool of depleted rods. But given the concept of half-life, should the levels of I-131 go UP? Doesn’t that mean “Unauthorized Fission” is happening?
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The Doomsday Scenario, Is Fukushima About To Blow
http://stretchingminds.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/by-mike-whitney-the-doomsday-scenario-is-fukushima-about-to-blow/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCWGc173ic&feature=player_embedded
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Reactor 4
Spent fuel rods in a water pool may have become exposed to air, emitting radioactive gases. An explosion and fire have damaged the building. There are no fuel assemblies in the reactor; 548 were removed for maintenance and are part of 1,331 in spent fuel pools.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/world/asia/reactors-status.html
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