Hi Abe,
Hidden in the last couple of your e-mails on the Japanese disaster was the one word "plutonium" that appeared only once, that should send a chill up everyone's back. Its 1/2 life is thousands of years and emits deadly gamma radiation.
It is used in fast breeder reactors.
I cannot understand why the Japanese government has been so quiet on this, the danger is immense as the winds can disperse the dust from these explosions world wide. All of the nuclear disasters have been in fast breeder reactors.
Their spent fuel rods can be used in the manufacture of hydrogen or atomic bombs and they produce more energy to produce electricity.
Fortunately Canadian reactors are of the "slow breeder" type whose spent fuel rods are not weapons grade and while their spent fuel rods are radioactive their danger is comparitivly low when compared to the rods of a fast breeder reactor.
It appears that the Japanese sites do not have a containment buildings as Canadian sites do. Our containment building are immense, the walls 12 ft. thick and the contain low air pressure to be able to suck radio active material inside in the event of a leak.
Sadly I expect most of the remaining on site workers will not survive and I also expect a huge area around this site will not be able to be used for human habitation in the foreseeable future.
A sad day for Japan and their neighbours.
ceu Ed
