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particle found 400 kilometers from Fukushima with radioactivity over
40 billion Bq/kg
Large
black puddles of fallout along roadsides might well be from inside
failed fuel rods
17
December, 2013
Arnie
Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds,
Dec. 16, 2013 (at 3:30 in):
Large puddles of black particles have been found on the side of the road, each individual grain is extraordinarily radioactive. This is fall-out, this is hot particles that have coalesced together on the side of the road. Recently a hot particle was discovered 250 miles [400 kilometers] away from Fukushima. It was so radioactive that if it were a pound of material instead of just a particle, the pound would be giving off 20 billion disintegrations per second [44 billion becquerels per kilogram] […] That small speck could easily be lodged in someone’s lung. >>
Large puddles of black particles have been found on the side of the road, each individual grain is extraordinarily radioactive. This is fall-out, this is hot particles that have coalesced together on the side of the road. Recently a hot particle was discovered 250 miles [400 kilometers] away from Fukushima. It was so radioactive that if it were a pound of material instead of just a particle, the pound would be giving off 20 billion disintegrations per second [44 billion becquerels per kilogram] […] That small speck could easily be lodged in someone’s lung. >>
Japan’s
Black Dust,
Fairewinds Energy Education, July 10, 2013: Marco
Kaltofen, President at Boston Chemical Data Corp. & Doctoral
student researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute:
[...] We kept hearing reports about something unusual, a black dust [...] we finally got a very small sample [...] It’s a single substance. It’s not a mix of mineral particles and pieces of dead bugs and plant matter and dust particles [...] it doesn’t look like the surrounding soils. And it is much more intensely radioactive than any other soil or dust sample we’ve gotten from around Fukushima Daiichi. [...] There’s something unusual happening with this stuff. [...] this particle contains not only fission waste products from the reactor but very likely contains a concentrated unburned nuclear fuel. And that’s unusual. This sample had by far the highest level of uranium daughters that we’ve seen in a dust or soil sample. We’re actually seeing material that might well have come from inside a failed fuel assembly.
[...] We kept hearing reports about something unusual, a black dust [...] we finally got a very small sample [...] It’s a single substance. It’s not a mix of mineral particles and pieces of dead bugs and plant matter and dust particles [...] it doesn’t look like the surrounding soils. And it is much more intensely radioactive than any other soil or dust sample we’ve gotten from around Fukushima Daiichi. [...] There’s something unusual happening with this stuff. [...] this particle contains not only fission waste products from the reactor but very likely contains a concentrated unburned nuclear fuel. And that’s unusual. This sample had by far the highest level of uranium daughters that we’ve seen in a dust or soil sample. We’re actually seeing material that might well have come from inside a failed fuel assembly.
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