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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Earthquake in Japan. Nuclear radiation paranoid’s handy reference. U.S.

Nuclear radiation paranoid’s handy reference

EPA RadNet The Likely Radiation Distribution in Japan (March 19)Added 3/22:Iodine from plant detected in Tokyo: .046 µSv/hr. (438 µSv per year — about 4 chest x-rays); Fukushima Pref.: 21.9 µSv/hr. (191,844 µSv per year or 1918 chest x-rays). Dealing with radiation fears, potassium iodide requests: side effects include nausea, diarrhea, allergy, interference with the body’s normal production of thyroid hormone. Xkcd. GRS - Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH. Lebensministerium.at - Messwerte aus dem Strahlenfrühwarnsystem.

What is MOX? The giant French nuclear firm Cogema, Duke Power and Virginia Power have formed a consortium to create and use plutonium MOX fuel in civilian atomic reactors in North and South Carolina and Virginia.

What is MOX?

If their effort is successful, plutonium would be trucked from nuclear weapons depots in the west to the Savannah River Plant on the South Carolina/Georgia border, where new plutonium processing plants would be built. This new MOX fuel would then be trucked to commercial reactors in the Southeast, in order to turn this plutonium into high-level radioactive waste.