Radionuclides Released into the Air from Fukushima I Nuke Plant, by NISA

Diposkan oleh Pengetahuan dan Pengalaman on Saturday, August 27, 2011

as announced by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) on June 6, 2011 (on page 13 of the PDF file). Click on the image below to view it in a separate window:



What's interesting about the numbers in the chart is:



1. Radioactive strontium came more from Reactor 2 and Reactor 3, 1 to 2-digit higher.



2. More plutonium came out from Reactor 2, 2-digit higher, not from Reactor 3 with MOX-fuel.



Strontium-89 (in becquerels)

Reactor 1: 8.2 x 10^13 (or 82 terabecquerels)

Reactor 2: 6.8 x 10^14 (or 680 terabecquerels)

Reactor 3: 1.2 x 10 ^15 (or 1,200 terabequerels)

Total: 2.0 x 10^15 (or 2,000 terabequerels)



Strontium-90 (in becquerels)

Reractor 1: 6.1 x 10^12 (or 6.1 terabecquerels)

Reactor 2: 4.8 x 10^13 (or 48 terabecquerels)

Reactor 3: 8.5 x 10^13 (or 85 terabecquerels)

Total: 1.4 x 10^14 (or 140 terabecquerels)



Plutonium-241 (in becquerels)

Reactor 1: 3.5 x 10^10 (or 35 billion becquerels)

Reactor 2: 1.2 x 10^12 (or 1.2 terabequerel)

Reactor 3: 1.6 x 10^10 (or 16 billion becquerels)

Total: 1.2 x 10^12 (or 1.2 terabequerel)



Neptunium-239, which decays to plutonium-239, was estimated at 7.6 x 10^13 becquerels, or 76 terabequerels, adding to 3.2 x 10^9 becquerels of plutonium-239 that came out. Again, most neptunium-239 came out of Reactor 2, whose reactor building is more or less intact and whose Suppression Chamber is said to have been damaged on March 15 morning.



In the PDF file linked above, NISA estimated 770,000 to 850,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials have been released into the atmosphere from Fukushima I Nuke Plant (although they are now trying to lower that number), and additional 720,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials are in the contaminated water at the plant.



(Thank you "Kyotoresident" for reminding me to put this up, which I did for my Japanese blog long time ago and forgot to do for this blog.)