Radiation release from Fukushima won't increase much: IAEA

[FBaggins]

So far, the overall radioactivity release has been around 10 percent of that seen at Chernobyl 25 years ago, the Japanese authorities have said. And the International Atomic Energy Agency's head of nuclear safety, Denis Flory, said the amount would not increase much further. "There has been high bursts of radioactivity from the beginning," Flory told a regular news briefing here.

Currently, radioactivity was still leaking "at low level" but those leaks were decreasing.

"So, taking into account all the measures that are foreseen, the new amount of release will be decreasing and decreasing, and the total amount would not be much different from what it is today," the expert said.

According to Japanese estimates, the total radiation release at Fukushima so far has been 370,000 terrabecquerels, compared with 5.2 million terrabecquerels at Chernobyl.

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Also relevant is the fact that a far higher proportion of Chernobyl's release was in the form of longer-half-life elements.

[SpoonFed]

1. thanks again

> Also relevant is the fact that a far higher proportion of Chernobyl's release was in the form of longer-half-life elements.

for making unequivocal judgements of the situation and knowledge of the facts when in fact the situation regarding the nuclear reactor disaster at Fukushima is still unfolding and most of the true data still completely withheld and/or unknown.

Fail.

PS. Is this a good time to mention the IAEA veto over WHO with regards to reporting the health affects of radiation? And that the IEAE is a biased body like the NRC which is inherently pro-nuclear?

[Confusious]

4. So let me get this straight

you'll take the word of a jim in MN and a bucketload of speculation from someone nowhere near the accident, over the info of the IAEA.

no bias there :sarcasm:

[flamingdem]

2. No one knows how this will turn out nt

[Confusious]

5. doesn't stop you from posting

hyperbolic speculation, does it?

[Fledermaus]

3. When will it stop? No one knows.