DoChenRollingBearing
Yellow Jacket
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I found the general thread on Fukushima to be excellent, thank you to all, especially you, DCFusor, for your continuing rational comments.
I wanted to ask something that is speculative, but certainly possible. If the spent rods above Reactor 4 there at Fukushima catch fire (with all that radioactive plutonium)...:
1) Would that be an ELE (Extinction Level Event)? Some of ZH's commenters are saying that just what is going on now will kill us all! While that is easy enough to dismiss (why isn't Russia screaming, why aren't the Chinese?). But, the spent rods apparently have a lot of radioactivity, and it looks like that could be very dangerous even to North America.
2) How long would we have to push the "AMF Button" and GTFO of Dodge? My thinking is to just drive to the airport and get the first plane south to Peru if/when there is a big fire re the spent rods...
3) My understanding of both the air masses and the ocean currents is that the N Hemisphere and S Hemisphere masses do not mix very much. Is this so? And would there be enough time for the plutonium (etc.) to settle out while I watch it all from Peru? Until things settle back down up here...
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Thanks mucho gang!
I found the general thread on Fukushima to be excellent, thank you to all, especially you, DCFusor, for your continuing rational comments.
I wanted to ask something that is speculative, but certainly possible. If the spent rods above Reactor 4 there at Fukushima catch fire (with all that radioactive plutonium)...:
1) Would that be an ELE (Extinction Level Event)? Some of ZH's commenters are saying that just what is going on now will kill us all! While that is easy enough to dismiss (why isn't Russia screaming, why aren't the Chinese?). But, the spent rods apparently have a lot of radioactivity, and it looks like that could be very dangerous even to North America.
2) How long would we have to push the "AMF Button" and GTFO of Dodge? My thinking is to just drive to the airport and get the first plane south to Peru if/when there is a big fire re the spent rods...
3) My understanding of both the air masses and the ocean currents is that the N Hemisphere and S Hemisphere masses do not mix very much. Is this so? And would there be enough time for the plutonium (etc.) to settle out while I watch it all from Peru? Until things settle back down up here...
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Thanks mucho gang!