Washington’s Blog: Estimating the Impact of Failure of the Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool.
“The results of this analysis suggest that a nominal release of 10% of the SFP 4 inventory of cesium and strontium would represent 3-10 times the March 2011 release amounts, substantially increasing risk levels in Japan and impacting marine life. Release of 100% of the SFP 4 inventory, or 30-100 times the March 2011 release amounts, could result in significant global impact.” As I predicted, the severity of the incident has been parcelled out over a long period of time. And, as I recommended earlier, an international effort should have been made long before this. Radioactive elements know no national borders.
5 PM MST: Site seems to be down at the moment.
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