Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How Bad is the Situation at Japan's Nuclear Reactor? How Much Radiation Will Be Released?

I of course don't have the answers but I do have a collection of interesting links that may be useful. Keep in mind that the mainstream media will tailor the story to reduce panice. Also keep in mind that no one really knows what the worst case scenario would actually entail.

Dr Jeff Master's Wunderblog has a technical discussion of the radiation risks
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1764

Washington's Blog has an excellent discussion of the current state of the disaster with an embedded clip of the Rachel Maddow show at Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23734

Rachel's guest on the show, a physicist from Princeton, says that the disaster could release 8 times a normal reactor's radiation capacities even without a metldown because the spent fuel rods, which are exposed in some of the reactors (#4), release more radiation when heated than the reactor cores (because there are more spent rods and because they are not encased). The spent fuel rods would have to be heated to release the radiation.

Propublica has a very comprehensive reading list about the nature of the disaster and its risks
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/following-disaster-news-from-japan-heres-our-reading-list

The Economic Collapse Blog has a list of indicators of the severity of the crisis
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/27-signs-that-the-nuclear-crisis-in-japan-is-much-worse-than-either-the-mainstream-media-or-the-japanese-government-have-been-telling-us

MORE AS I FIND IT WILL BE POSTED

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