{"id":13526,"date":"2014-03-24T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13526"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:49:00","slug":"us-will-assume-control-of-japans-nuclear-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13526","title":{"rendered":"US will assume control of Japan’s nuclear cache"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to The New York Times, Japan will announce on Monday that it will turn over to Washington more than 700 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium and a large quantity of highly enriched uranium, a decades-old research stockpile that is large enough to build dozens of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

The nuclear fuel being turned over to the United States, which is of American and British origin, is a fraction of Japan\u2019s overall stockpile. Japan has more than nine tons of plutonium stored in various locations and it is scheduled to open in the fall a new nuclear fuel plant that could produce many tons more every year.<\/p>\n

American officials have been quietly pressing Japan to abandon the program, arguing that the material is insufficiently protected even though much of it is in a form that would be significantly more difficult to use in a weapon than the supplies being sent to the United States.<\/p>\n

The explosions at Fukushima were chemical hydrogen explosions and were not nuclear explosions however. The exposed core reacts with the high pressure steam at about 2000\u00b0C to form zirconium and hydrogen. What we DO have is effectively three dirty bombs, ejecting radioactive isotopes in the form of dust particles into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

It takes a dosage of 4 Sieverts to kill 50% of the population, one Sievert would kill 5% of the population. Background level is 1-2 mS\/y, smokers inhale an additional 5-10mS\/y. 30 milliSieverts\/year is regarded as the maximum occupational danger level (airline pilots, etc get about 5-9 mS\/y). Some areas in Japan may get that level, Europe almost certainly will not.<\/p>\n

Using Bequerels instead of Sieverts: Background level here for foodstuffs is about 40 Bequerels\/kilogramm, warning levels for foods after Chernobyl were set at 800 B\/Kg. Cancer patients sometimes have a scintigramm at 4 MEGA-Bequerels = 47 THOUSAND Bequerels\/kilogramm without any negative effects.<\/p>\n

Most of the fallout cloud should go out over the Pacific where it will be washed out of the sky by rain. Each component of the fallout has a different duration depending on which isotope it is. Each isotope has a so-called half-life. This means that half its radiation is gone after this half-life. Since 210 =1,000 and 220 = 1,000,000 it takes 10 respectively 20 half-lives for that isotope’s radiation to fall to 1 thousandth resp. one millionth of its initial value.<\/p>\n

The dangerous elements which accumulate in the body are iodine, cesium and plutonium. The reactor Fukushima #3 is a MOX reactor.<\/p>\n

Iodine 131 has a half-life of 8 days. It is a \u03b2 and \u03b3 emitter. Iodine congregates in the thyroid gland. You can take non-radioactive I127 pills to saturate your thyroid preemptively, so that it doesn’t take up any I131.<\/p>\n

Cesium137 has a half-life of about 33 years, \u03b2 and \u03b3 emitter. The body treats cesium like potassium, so it is eventually excreted. but can cause many different types of cancer, particularly in the excretion filters, liver and kidneys.<\/p>\n

Plutonium239 has a half-life of about 24,000 years, so it doesn’t go away. It is an \u03b1 and \u03b3 emitter which congregates in the bone marrow where the \u03b1 particles can do serious damage quickly.<\/p>\n

Don’t eat any Kobe beef, imported Sushi or Pacific fish unless it has been officially checked for radiation first.<\/p>\n

Source: VoR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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