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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Japan's nuclear reactor: radioactive leaks

Japan's nuclear reactor: radioactive leaks

There has been a sharp rise in radioactive iodine in the sea off the Fukushima nuclear power plant, with radioactivity thousands of times higher than the legal limit. The most likely sources of the leaks are Reactors 2 and 3, as detailed here.
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1 comment:

  1. Well they always leaked, since each and every nuclear power station in the world emits radioactive substances through
    a) a chimney and always
    b) via the cooling water leaks that are unavoidable in any complex pipe structure, be it a refinery or a coal fired power station.
    Only now the leak is uncontrolled since nuclear energy is a complex endeavour born to fail.

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