JAPANʻS NUCLEAR PANIC OVERSHADOWS HIROSHIMA ANNIVERSARY: In a - TopicsExpress



          

JAPANʻS NUCLEAR PANIC OVERSHADOWS HIROSHIMA ANNIVERSARY: In a 2012 study, Jota Kanda, an oceanographer at Toyko University of Marine Science and Technology, calculated that the plant is leaking 0.3 terabecquerels (trillion becquerels) of cesium-137 per month and a similar amount of cesium-134. While that number sounds mind-boggling, it’s actually thousands of times less than the level of radioactive contamination that the plant was spewing in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, estimated to be from 5,000 to 15,000 terabecquerels, according to Buesseler. For a comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released 89 terabecquerels of cesium-137 when it exploded. news.nationalgeographic/news/energy/2013/08/130807-fukushima-radioactive-water-leak/
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:55:11 +0000

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