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SECRET SHIPMENT OF PLUTONIUM FROM EUROPE TO JAPAN LED TO PLANT EXPLOSION
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[quote:oldboldpilot:MV8xMzkwMzAxXzIyOTI2Njk3X0Q1NzI5ODgy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1150479] [quote:Comedian] God Almighty. If any of these reactors go super-critical with Plutonium cores, and the containment vessel is ruptured, releasing even several kilograms of PU could conceivably KILL A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE SURFACE OF THE PLANET. :siren2: This is DOOM DEFCON 1 :siren2: [/quote] can you explain why plutonium is worse than uranium? thanks [/quote] http://www.francenuc.org/en_mat/plutonium_e.htm Plutonium is more harmful than uranium 235 and uranium 238, in great part because of the differences in their half-lives and, consequently, in their specific activity. The half-lives of the five isotopes of plutonium that concern us here are much shorter than those of uranium 235 and 238. [b]Plutonium 239 with a half-life of 24,400 years, has a specific activity about 200,000 times greater than that of uranium 238 and about 30,000 times greater than that of uranium 235.[/b] The alpha particles emitted in the disintegration of plutonium 239 are about 25% more energetic than those emitted by the disintegration of uranium 238 and of uranium 235. Therefore, plutonium 239 is about 250,000 times more harmful per gram than uranium 238 and about 39,000 times more harmful per gram from the radiological point of view than uranium 235 [see IPPNW 92 and NAS 95]. These statistics do not measure biological damage, which can only be calculated by taking into account the pathway and length of time in the body as well as the specific activity and energy. The dilution volume index, which takes into account these factors, shows that, by gram, plutonium of military quality represents a potential risk from inhalation 23,000 times greater and a risk from ingestion 130,000 times greater than that posed by highly enriched uranium [NAS 95]. Plutonium metal and its compounds can enter the body by ingestion. However, as is the case with uranium, the greatest part of the plutonium ingested is quickly eliminated. The most dangerous pathway is inhalation. As with uranium, the small particles are the most dangerous. The particles of plutonium can lodge in the lunges where they may cause cancer; they can be carried from the lungs to the lymphatic pulmonary ganglions; they can also pass by means of the blood to other parts of the body. The plutonium has a tendency to concentrate in the liver and in the bones as well as in the lungs. In the bones, the plutonium is deposited on non-calcified and non-cartilaginous areas [IPPNW 92]. [/quote]
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SECRET SHIPMENT OF NUCLEAR BOMB MATERIAL FROM
EUROPE TO JAPAN
OVER the next few weeks, two ships carrying a secret cargo of dangerous, nuclear weapons-usable plutonium fuel will leave ports in Britain and France and sail around the globe to Japan. On board will be fuel containing more plutonium than in the entire Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons programmes.(1)
The two British flagged vessels, the Pacific Teal and the Pacific Pintail, will leave Barrow in Britain and Cherbourg in France carrying the first commercial shipment to Japan of mixed-oxide (MOX) reactor fuel, made from plutonium and uranium. An estimated 446 kilograms of plutonium is contained in the 40 nuclear fuel elements – enough fissile material to construct 60 nuclear bombs. T
The first plant to use MOX is scheduled to be Fukushima 1, plant. The date has been set to August 22nd, 2010.
ROUTE OF PLUTONIUM FUEL (MOX) SHIPMENT KEPT SECRET
THE plutonium (MOX) fuel shipment is being conducted for the Japanese electrical utilities Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) (Fukushima 1.2) .
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