-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/11/2016 03:24 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
Is there relatively objective study about the damages Fukushima vs Chernobyl?
(What I read was flamewars or propaganda).
I haven't seen such a comparison, although from my reading it appears that the Russian government may have done a better job with their evacuation - understandable, because tsunami. And, after first exhausting every wrong answer (Russian military used conventional firefighting methods, greatly exacerbating the situation), they finally listened to the engineers and stabilized the remains of the melted reactor. Not so the Japanese; last I heard they have not even /located/ the fissionable material that's still cooking merrily along. According to a National Geographic article citing Japanese govt. sources, groundwater from under the Fukushima complex was entering the Pacific at a rate of 300 tons daily. Same article said strontium 90 was 100 times more abundant than cesium isotopes in collected waste water stored on-site. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130807-fukush ima-radioactive-water-leak/ Reuters article from 2012: "Small amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were detected in 15 tuna caught near San Diego in August 2011, about four months after these chemicals were released into the water off Japan's east coast, scientists reported on Monday ." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-nuclear-tuna-idUSBRE84R0MF20 120528 Strotium was not tested for, as that costs way more than looking for cesium isotopes. Fun fact: Strontium 90 mimics calcium and concentrates in food chains. The Japan Current runs north to the Aleutians and east to North America. But the Pacific based seafood industries can breathe easy: USDA has increases allowable levels of hot isotopes, and if you can't prove in Court that a particular environmental source caused your cancer, nobody is liable. So, how much /worse/ is Fukushima than Chernobyl? As Gully Foyle would say, "guesses for grabs." My guess is, in terms of long term environmental and human health, way worse. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJW4x00AAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LrbkQAKYA1+IKdoXvJhbBJipWrWYy pl1plcrbOv9da82jiAtCxBpFyzzA/W5tFEpSBZsTSvzGjmipOWbmE3dMUOT/HGx/ CkiN46qMlsX+p6T6AkgOsB0Yp/HvctHPlURVFAyGuqFkQP2XMYd1fe/hOCjszb0Y nIh419uuZ2D8Ck0vSwEwgTAzhuUqQlBVaN/p7y7XRHNDrE6v6DorfzDuwqMcEnKH k+JMXkQ/ZpX0vL1E3Y4sDYlWzEe2heMOindAQRl4zDRzIGcxR1oeCA5+AC7oyrez 0zp8LRpNQTvGg/XLIRRuTBQgCrbLaHpuFr4mApdPq4NXZglRld2L5rdD/bUHN5TR 1LP85csAhHmxDGHlTAO7omJZC/k1gCqzUawP271A3dwLagZ4ehQnCDm8xJglHe1o GqkI/Rg+obhu1dJWVIJ/4zalfa1gGVUmON0u/PODycWIUREk2wuURTMcOg6FF+V/ lPA4r8s8nY8ycAWCP9iY9x3K7HQWi/AswCC2a4pJF1qk+OMmyobAugNEmwz2yJla yLoB35Djn341bJN0Cnhn17PRZtV6/rj4oGg3rOeX0NwLlXepye82H/vz4mw9Qy7a sjD7g9r542rXfc+kh368oMWCcAS5XooymcgfqLekdL/5ABIdFZVjYy4r+jy5M+dA ZVxU1IMI5uwCxaDrRH+G =/WBq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----