Published: November 3rd, 2011 at 12:06 pm ET
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Nov. 3 — TEPCO said on Thursday that the xenon-135 detected at Reactor No. 2 “was the result of the spontaneous nuclear fission of radioactive curium-242 and -244,” reports NHK.
“The amount of xenon-135 detected almost matched the amount that would have been produced if the radioactive curium in the fuel had undergone spontaneous fission.”
Watch NHK’s video segment here
Published: November 3rd, 2011 at 12:06 pm ET
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I managed to post my 2 powerpoints on Fukushima here
http://asu.academia.edu/majianadesan
The first pp is background on radiation and it covers the early days of the disaster
the second pp covers current conditions and raises provocative questions
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Posted here Majia Now going to watch
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/japan-earthquake-2011-gov_n_989682.html
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Majia you might want to check your powerpoint AGAIN.
Just now it’s coming up like this:
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What happened? Operatives? lol?
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Yes, I have the same problem watching it…
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I just looked at it and it is fine now.
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Majia, thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What software did you use to post the power points?
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+1 majia !!! Excellent summation. Greatly appreciated.
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thank you Majia!! fabulous!!! So much easier for those just waking up to catch up with such an excellent summation, can’t thank you enough:)
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Interesting, but deadly information about these Curium isotopes.
About 20 radioisotopes and 7 nuclear isomers between 233Cm and 252Cm are known for curium, and no stable isotopes. The longest half-lives have been reported for 247Cm (15.6 million years) and 248Cm (348,000 years). Other long-lived isotopes are 245Cm (half-life 8500 years), 250Cm (8,300 years) and 246Cm (4,760 years). Curium-250 is unusual by that it predominantly (about 86%) decays via spontaneous fission. The most commonly used curium isotopes are 242Cm and 244Cm with the half-lives of 162.8 days and 18.1 years, respectively.[9]
All isotopes between 242Cm and 248Cm, as well as 250Cm, undergo a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction and thus in principle can act as a nuclear fuel in a reactor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curium
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Your latest papers (autism, fukushima) are my two favorite topics, Majia. Thanks!
BTW, I daily search “Fukushima, today” at youtube. It’s supposed to bring up today’s fukushima vids that have been uploaded. There is always several pages of fukushima vids every day. Today, there were none:
No video results for “fukushima, today”
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OcifferDave: I just did a similar search, and noticed the same thing. Earlier today, I read in a blog somewhere that YouTube videos are now being censored. This seems to be the case.
Every day, I search YouTube for “Fukushima” and filter the results as to “Uploaded Today” – and like you say, alway 15 or more. Today? Zero.
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I know right? Youtube + Google + Facebook = Happy CIA. Easy assumption.
No new Fuku vids on youtube? No problem. Look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSClmgcxD0c&feature=related
Can you think of any Fuku application this might have?
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BTW, I think I could argue that every one of those gadgets/inventions could help Japan deal with Fukushima (ie cleaner water, test for cancer, help journalist report on fuku better, make your electricity when power grid transitions away from nuke plants, and the car is more energy effiecint…all post fuku wins).
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@majia
good job 100
big nice done
i post the link some german TV channels
to give a tip for a story, maybe they .. responds
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Curium reactions will only get more and more frequent. The major news networks won’t pick this up unless they want a pay cut from the nuclear industry. A situation as serious as this needs to be spread. The amount of released radioactive isotopes has to be recorded or more “bottles” of radium will be found EVERYWHERE in Japan. Turning a blind eye to continually melting fission products is suicidal.
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So does curium-based fission produce/release different “fission products” than uranium (other than the increased xenon)? I think I remember that they were emphasizing that there was no iodine, but what else might curium-fission create?
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Corium is a lava..
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)
And is a different stage of the fission process.
Scroll down for photo.
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Just out!
…9 Nine Bunker Buster Bombs to be dropped around Fukyoushima nuclear plants.
…Will create “man made volcaninc caldera”.
…Then will spray one year’s world production of Coca Cola Zero and Pepsi Max to eat up bad radiation thingy’s inside caldera.
Mankind will be saved.
…Oh, and every single Federal Washington Politician,TBTF Banker and Wall street CEO will be dropped into the “Soup”.
except for Ron Paul.
Party like its 1999
red red wine
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