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Plutonium is not a stable element. As plutonium decays, it releases radiation and forms decay products. For example, the decay products of plutonium-238 and plutonium-239 are uranium-234 and uranium-235, respectively. The decay process continues until a stable, non-radioactive decay product is formed. Radiation is released during the decay process in the form of alpha and beta particles, and gamma radiation. Alpha particles can travel only short distances and generally will
not penetrate human skin. Beta particles are generally absorbed in the skin and do not pass through the entire body. Gamma radiation, however, can penetrate the body. Plutonium-238, plutonium-239, and plutonium-240 are isotopes of plutonium, and have half-lives of 87 years, 24,065 years, and 6,537 years respectively.
Plutonium has been released to the environment primarily by atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and by accidents at facilities where plutonium is used. The amount of plutonium introduced into the environment through nuclear weapons production operations have been negligible compared with those released during testing of nuclear explosives.
Plutonium-238, plutonium-239, and plutonium-240 are alpha emitters. As a result, the potential for direct exposure is minimal from these isotopes. When mixed in soil on the ground these plutonium isotopes have a potential risk that is predominantly from the inhalation and ingestion pathways.
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/04/problems-at-reactor-number-4.htmlThe operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is carefully monitoring the situation at the Number 4 spent fuel pool, where the water temperature is rising despite increased injections of cooling water.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says it will inject 210 tons of water into the pool on Monday, after finding on Sunday evening that the temperature in the pool had risen to 81 degrees Celsius.
On Friday, TEPCO found that the pool's temperature had reached 91 degrees, so it began injecting 2 to 3 times the amount of water.
The Number 4 spent fuel pool stores 1,535 fuel rods, the most at the nuclear complex.
(Bear in mind that the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl.)
As I noted on April 2nd:
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen notes that the spent fuel rods in reactor number 4 have no water, and the rods are exposed:
These are very high levels of radiation. As I noted on April 10:
Radiation levels were apparently about 300 sieverts per hour ... right after Chernobyl exploded.
To be clear, the Chernobyl figure is radiation released into the environment, while the reactor 4 figure is radiation within the containment vessel. I have seen no evidence to date that reactor 4 is leaking.
This is especially odd given that reactor 4 was supposedly shut down prior to the earthquake for maintenance. In other words, reactor 4 was - according to official reports - shut down, and shouldn't have very much radiation at all. Something doesn't add up.
In contrast, the radiation inside the cores of the other reactors are much lower: * Reactor 1: 0 * Reactor 2: 26.3 * Reactor 3: 11.1 * Reactor 5: 0 * Reactor 6: 0
Indeed, the Japanese nuclear agency prominently displays the radiation data for all of the reactors except number 4 on it's main page. Number 4 is conspicuously absent, and you have to type in the url for the correct web page to find it.
The building housing reactor 4 doesn't seem to be quite as badly damaged as those housing other reactors:
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