That waste shouldn't even be radioactive anymore...
That sucks!Im no radiation expert, but from the top of my head, Id get a good supply of clean water, a gas mask and iodide tablets. And generally be ready to leave on short notice. Sent from a device made from star dust using tapatalk
Iodine has a short half life and is only produced in reactors. You do not need tablets. Dispersion of radioactive materials will depend on various factors, like wind and deposition will depend on other factors like rain. The whole scenario looks weird. I know the topic well.
In the event anyone cares about this, HBO has a Documentary on the landfill I talked about in the first post called 'Atomic Homefront', which is free to watch till March 18 (2018)https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/atomic-homefront
Half lives of Thorium isotopes range between 25 hours (long past) to 14 BILLION years (as in, NEVER going to go away).
Quote from: Lynn LeFey on October 15, 2015, 10:52:31 PMHalf lives of Thorium isotopes range between 25 hours (long past) to 14 BILLION years (as in, NEVER going to go away).The thing is that elements with longer half lives are also a lot less radioactive. All elements have a half life (well, maybe there is some magic around the iron where fission and fusion meet? I don't remember anymore...) but most don't emit much radiation.
It took me days to get through the documentary, because it just made me so insanely angry and sad.It's really a nightmare scenario for the folks in Bridgeton. I have very little to worry about, but they have that stuff contaminating their neighborhoods. A report on the statistical rates of cancer for the zip codes in that area...http://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/chronic/cancerinquiry/pdf/ccanalysisSept2014.pdfI'm just... kind of at a loss for words.