Recent content by Reno Deano

Iodine 131 has a short half-life (8 days) an is quickly secreted from the body, except that taken up by the thyroid. Regulations require the patient and family to follow safety rules for using bathrooms, mingling, and habitation. The dose received from people near by is inconsequential. It...

Is that a person standing on the knoll in the far right of the picture?

Decontamination of the RPV interior surface just removed radioactive surface corrosion/wear particles adhered to it. The RPV is still irradiated/radioactive and shielding is still needed for workers on the support platform.

This could be the source of high radiation increase fresh water and the Oxygen 16 to Nitrogen 16 activation via fast neutrons. Though short lived the resultant gama from its decay is very strong. Radioisotope 16N is the dominant radionuclide in the coolant of pressurized water reactors or...

I notice from the NEI reports that Unit 1 is having water continously injected! Why not recirculated? Where is the water going? Seems to indicate that the RPV and primary containment are breached, and they cannot keep the core covered. If hydrogen is being generated in such a large scale to...

Have experience with one of those systems (cobalt 60 removal) they would soon be such a high radiation hazard (due to fuel particle buildup on the filtration system) that it would need to be towed out to sea to reduced area radiation levels. Also, the inplant radwaste system is not designed...

--------------------------- Evidently you have not been on a boat on the water, with wind blowing. The boat is constantly taking in water and discharging it. BTW, the area they are traversing is in the release zone of the reactors in crisis.

Some information on TMI Upgrades that Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 should have implemented by TEPCO. There is no reason or information that they did not implement these modifications. This data can give insight to reasons for the uncontrolled hydrogen releases and why reactor vessel water levels could...

The dry well will hold water and leak it, as was being proven by flooding it. More than likely there is almost equal water in the dry well as in the RPV. You just have to keep adding more water due to size of the Dry Well and Primary containment area. If there was only a exit avenue above the...

Pick your postulate location of a breach or leak path. Mine is on the bottom of the reactor vessel.

---------------------------- IAEA 30 March 2011 Press Release on Reactor Crisis and Off-site monitoring should give you comfort in the water and food stuff consumption by the public. There is no significant health risks of drinking water or eating food stuffs outside of the reactor plant's...

-------------------- From my point of view. Two units use a common single off gas release point. During a reactor accident situation the normal Off gas system initially isolates and the emergency off gas system is activated. A problems with the emergency charcoal beds is if they get loaded...

BWRs have an astounding number of penetrations (CRDMs and reactor instrumentation) coming through the bottom of the reactor vessel. A CRDM ejection is a remote possibility. But if the CRDM seismic supports failed, that could be the breach.

Both Pu and U need to be in solublized form to be taken up by plants. It is not an over night thing. Surface contamination is another thing.

Simple: Goldman Sachs is removing their gold in sacks to prevent neutron activation of it. The neutron beam story really scared them.