Fukushima Daiichi is releasing 154 teraBecquerels of radionuclide particulate matter a day. Almost all of the reports repeat the statement that Fukushima has (so-far) released only about 10~ of the radiation Chernobyl released. No problem. Well, they say, "It COULD have been worse."
IT WILL BE!
Chernobyl is over. Fukushima hasn't really begun. Chernobyl released a huge radioactive cloud when it blew up. Fukishima will exceed the Chernobyl release in a year no matter what else happens. It will easily exceed the fallout created by all 2000+ nuclear tests - which were stopped because enough tests make a nuclear war unnecessary. Once you irradiate all the plants and all the animals and all the fish and all the people, dropping bombs is superfluous.
Those melting nuclear cores aren't going away. There are additional differences. Chernobyl didn't dump radioactive water into the world's primary fishing waters. Fukushima will have to dump highly radioactive water into the oceans for many years just to PREVENT a Chernobyl-type accident Fukushima will be many times worse than Chernobyl and will continue for, possibly, hundreds of years.
I was asked yesterday how soon someone could go back to the area of Fukushima Daiichi, buy land, build a house and do a little farming and fishing. 20,000 years. "No, really." Well...three hundred years after the last fission reaction stops. And then another 15,700 to allow all the isotopes it cooks up to decay. Yep. 20,000.
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