"An uncontrolled leak of nuclear fuel could cause more radiation - TopicsExpress



          

"An uncontrolled leak of nuclear fuel could cause more radiation than the March 2011 disaster or the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, say consultants Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt. "Full release from the Unit-4 spent fuel pool, without any containment or control, could cause by far the most serious radiological disaster to date," the scientists say in their World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013. The operation has been tried before – but only with the aid of computers. This time it will be a painstaking manual process. Here’s what needs to be done: more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies, packing radiation 14,000 times the equivalent of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, need to carefully be removed from their cooling pool."
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 04:16:00 +0000

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