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Default Anyone see the BBC prog on Sellafield?

En el artículo , The Natural Philosopher
escribió:

Just a chemical explosion


Yes. That's an important distinction, although trivialising it with the
word 'just' is unwarranted.

And only a level 6. When Fukushima - level 7 doesn't kill ANYBODY who
cares about a level 6?


The people living there who were poisoned by radioactivity might
disagree with you. 10,000 people were evacuated and resettled.

quote

There were no immediate casualties as a result of the explosion, but it
released an estimated 20 MCi (800 PBq) of radioactivity. Most of this
contamination settled out near the site of the accident and contributed
to the pollution of the Techa River, but a plume containing 2 MCi (80
PBq) of radionuclides spread out over hundreds of kilometers. Previously
contaminated areas within the affected area include the Techa river
which had previously received 2.75 MCi (100 PBq) of deliberately dumped
waste, and Lake Karachay which had received 120 MCi (4,000 PBq)

In the next 10 to 11 hours, the radioactive cloud moved towards the
north-east, reaching 300-350 kilometers from the accident. The fallout
of the cloud resulted in a long-term contamination of an area of more
than 800 to 20,000 square kilometers (depending on what contamination
level is considered significant), primarily with caesium-137 and
strontium-90.This area is usually referred to as the East-Ural
Radioactive Trace (EURT)

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