Great - we're all gonna die....

annamc18
annamc18 Posts: 198 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
just great..........this is part of the story that im giving the link to below:

"itting at the top of [Reactor 4], in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1,565 fuel rods (give or take a few), some of them 'fresh fuel' that was ready to go into the reactor on the morning of March 11 when the earthquake and tsunami hit," writes Consolo. "If they are MOX fuel, containing six percent plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people."


http://www.naturalnews.com/035731_Fukushima_radiation_America.html

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  • annamc18
    annamc18 Posts: 198 Member
    nobody has any thoughts on this?

    *BUMP*
  • xarla16
    xarla16 Posts: 84 Member
    "(A "Citizen Journalist" is a news writer or reporter who is not necessarily credentialed through a journalism school, but is nevertheless a well-informed reporter on their chosen topics. Most tend to cover news from an independent, grassroots point of view.)"


    Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/021982.html#ixzz1tjQz0v8D

    While I don't doubt that the nuclear crisis is not over....I'm a bit iffy about this particular source for information on the matter.
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    "If they are MOX fuel, containing six percent plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people."

    True, as it takes very, very little plutonium to kill a person. However, I doubt that you could actually distribute that plutonium over a large enough area to affect that many people.
  • deeharley
    deeharley Posts: 1,208 Member
    I find the title of this thread alone hard to comprehend as news - we ARE all going to die. Plutonium poisoning is as good a way to go as several other options.

    Edit: Also, what does that mean, "IF they are MOX fuel. . ." This author is trying to scare us without even knowing for sure what is in the rods?
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