Plutonium Creates Ionizing Radiation > Less is more (damaging) Petkau

[TalkingDog]

Petkau Effect: Ionizing radiation behaves in a nonlinear way in regard to cell damage. It produces negative oxygen ions. Those ions are more damaging to cell membranes in lower concentrations than higher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petkau_effect

[TalkingDog]

1. Bloomberg News: Toxic plutonium seeping from Japan's nuclear plant

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9M8NGK80.htm

Highly toxic plutonium is seeping from the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan's tsunami disaster zone into the soil outside, officials said Tuesday, as the government grew frustrated by missteps in the effort to stabilize the overheated facility.

Safety officials said the small amounts of plutonium found at several spots outside the complex were not a risk to humans but support suspicions that dangerously radioactive water is leaking from damaged nuclear fuel rods -- a worrying development in the race to bring the power plant under control.

[Marblehead]

2. Reactor 3

Blew sky high throwing used fuel rods containing plutonium everywhere..

[MineralMan]

3. +1. Yes.

There is so much misinformation and misunderstood information circulating that it's becoming increasingly difficult to drill down to actual correct information.

[yodermon]

4. not sure... they only started using MOX in fall 2010..

so there may not have been any MOX spent fuel rods in the pool yet. Not that having spent fuel rods of any stripe blown sky high is *ever* a good thing, of course.

[Marblehead]

5. That would be good news

about the only good news I've heard...