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09-30-2017, 11:00 PM
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Re: A Slow, Agonizing Death Caused By Radiation
Actually, it was a uranium re-processing plant. The SALT treaty signed with the Russians in the 1970's (during the Carter administration) forbids the U.S. from re-processing spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear reactors (this is why most nuclear power plants still store spent nuclear fuel on site and have sued the U.S. government because the spent nuclear fuel was supposed to be transferred to a U.S. government storage facility, i.e. Yucca Mountain). The only place that could reprocess spent nuclear fuel would be U.S. nuclear weapons facilities (e.x. Hanford, Oak Ridge, etc.). I do not think the U.S. is even doing that anymore.
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09-30-2017, 11:12 PM
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Re: A Slow, Agonizing Death Caused By Radiation
Military soldiers at Chernobyl were exposed to this or more radiation as they were picking up live fuel rods from the explosion and throwing them into a pit. Several Russian soldiers died from that exposure. The lower portion of the hospital at Chernobyl still has the clothes taken from people exposed to the nuclear fuel components and still is quite radioactive to this day. I am not sure how may people died due to direct exposure at Fukushima. The fallout effects to the citizens of both Chernobyl and Fukushima are slightly increased, but I'd say the risk was higher as the entire town of Pripyat was evacuation, and no one has been allowed to return. Interestingly, the H-bomb detonated in the Bikini Islands which would have had greater fallout (and vaporized quite a bit of the Bikini Island) has now returned to trace with little effect on the wildlife (although a shark has mutated and is believed to be the first known event where a human initiated mutation has been identified). The islanders of Bikini are not allowed to live on the island to date but are allowed to visit the graves of ancestors. |
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09-30-2017, 11:25 PM
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Re: A Slow, Agonizing Death Caused By Radiation
Correction: SALT was in the 70's and continued through the Reagan administration. SALT was then replaced by START.
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10-24-2017, 06:51 PM
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Re: A Slow, Agonizing Death Caused By Radiation
This post made me get the book from my library. His first name was Hiroshi, and Ouchi was his surname. He suffered terribly, and the picture with the medical tape (not in the book) is because the medical personnel were unable to remove tape without taking his skin off. He was conscious and in agony until almost the very end. It's a fast read, so I recommend it.
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