/sci/ - Science & Math

>they say radiation would be around the area at current level because it is in meltdown. so how much radiation WOULD be in the area if it was in meltdown?

The current level amount of radiation.

but is there a link to confirmation of this? that it is full meltdown or that levels would be that high?

>>2812443
radiation leakage do amount of current levels of particles be alpha. japan not to be fulfilled.

Well, nuclear meltdown is loosely defined and since the cores have indeed been damaged, the reactors are "in meltdown".

and i mean they aren"t the news or physicists or those in the job of monitoring them, they are people who for the most part just know some nuclear stuff happened now the water is ooisoned but don"t know the basics of an atomic nucleis

I don't get it. I've never heard shit about fallout from the detonation of TWO ATOMIC BOMBS having any great effect on North America. Why is the potential meltdown or even explosion of a reactor in Japan being considered a potential issue?

>>2812560
HAHAHAHA...

You think the Americans should care about the two dinky little atomic bombs they dropped on Japan during WWII? What about the thousands of atmospheric nuclear tests during the 50s, 60s, and 70s conducted by the USA and the USSR? Hundreds of which were conducted on US mainland soil, and at least dozens of which where multi-megaton monstrocities? :P (The Americans did tend to test their largest bombs on uninhabited islands in the Pacific though)

Anyways, most of the media is extremely bad at properly providing the technical details of what is going on at Fukushima. Better sources are:
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/index.php
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/
http://www.nei.org/
Although Reuters and the BBC are *reasonably* good.

Finally, as far as the radiation around the reactors and in the surrounding area, radiation levels have dropped by more then tenfold since their peak (probably closer to 20 or 30 fold by now)... The only thing is that they've been monitoring radiation levels more closely recently, plus they found that very radioactive water has slowly been leaking from the reactors this whole time.

>>2812607
>uninhabited islands

>>2812664
Lol, they WERE uninhabited before they set off the bombs because they "evacuated" all of the natives living on them XD

Talk about getting your homeland raped... Bikini Atoll had tens of megatons worth nuclear explosives going off all over it XD

>>2812674
>XD

reported for underageb&

>>2813409
>implying smileys are only used by underage b&

IF THERE WAS NOT A MELTDOWN, ALL RADIATION WOULD BE CONTAINED IN FUEL RODS
fuck you nuclear apologists

>>2813417
there are also the spent fuel pools you fuck

>>2812422
Sauce for these science pics?

>>2813417

See the thing about radiation. It radiates. That's why it's called radiation.

Either you are mixing up unstable isotopes with photons, he-4 nuclei and electrons, or you are just trolling.

>>2813463
???

>>2813463
http://www.tineye.com/search/2e440cb29dbbfcf75b146ce15172a00c0c5c6e95/
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