Teri Balser, soil science
Soil Biology Life on the Planet
Soils Sustain Life -- Soil Science Society of America
Soils sustain life on earth. Soils play a critical role in food production, environmental, and water management issues. This video features ...
Fukushima Crisis: Gobs of Radioactive Contamination
Radiation Releases From Fukushima Much Larger Than Initially Estimated, Evidence Of US Contamination goes over a number of new reports of how bad the Fukushima “dirty bomb” contamination really was, though it could have been worse.
Scientific American highlighted a paper by the journal of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has published a paper (link to pdf) that comes up with much higher estimates of releases of radioactive cesium and other badness than the government, and says that much of the radiation evidently was coming out of the Reactor 4 which was taken apart for shutdown, but still had a boiling swimming pool chock full of fuel rods open to the air after a fire and explosion also blew out the “secondary containment” of fragile roof, upper and lower concrete side walls.
This chart from ENE news shows how radiation levels were going sky high as things were blowing up, burning, and spouting out enormous plumes of radioactive steam. Although they were concentrating on spraying the blasted wreckage of unit 3 with water, it wasn’t until they finally deployed a giant concrete pump, dubbed the “giraffe” to fill the pool back up with new water that the cesium levels dropped off by a lot.
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