How much *heat is Fukyshima (sp?) putting into the the atmosphere? (rads aside)...anyone have an

[silvershadow]

educated guess? I'm not educated in this stuff, but would like to know about that. I already have a really sickening feeling about the radiation. Just wondering about the heat, and what I might need to be expecting. Thanks for ?

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Im not sure the heat is the problem.

I think the problem is the radioactive contamination.

[silvershadow]

2. Yeah, but would heat also be with it? ...for example, would it be

enough to disrupt weather? Change weather patterns? Change local climate? etc. That's why I'm asking.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Less heat than when they (all 4 reactors) were operating normally. n/t

[silvershadow]

5. Thank you. nt

[RobertEarl]

4. Probably not

It could cause local heating of the waters. Indeed satellites did show an anomaly of heat near to the plant in April.

The real problem is the radiation. It is suspected in causing a few atypical weather events, but so little is known about weather events that Fukushima is just another wrinkle.

However, the ionizing and the noble gasses could be having an effect, similar in regards to how freon has been discovered to deplete ozone.

One unknown is where the cores reside. One theory is they have burned down into the earth. Could they be boiling groundwater and causing something similar to what we know as fracking? Minor earthquakes have been associated with fracking.

All in all, Fukushima is a grand experiment against our environment and there may be some huge surprises yet.

[silvershadow]

6. I figured as much with the cores. Thanks for your comments. nt

[Yo_Mama]

8. No - when the reactors were operating they generated a lot of heat

Now, much less. These were boiling water reactors. There's much less energy output now, so much less heat generated.

[darkangel218]

7. We are done, toasted

Or roasted. Whatever you want to call it.

Fukushima turned out to be worse than Chenobyl in the long run.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. A graveyard of vehicles contaminated at Chernobyl

A graveyard for vehicles highly contaminated by radiation, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, seen on Nov. 10, 2000. Some 1,350 Soviet military helicopters, buses, bulldozers, tankers, transporters, fire engines and ambulances were used while fighting against the April 26, 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl. All were irradiated during the clean-up operation. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)



- See more at: http://aibob.blogspot.dk/2011/12/1986-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster.html#sthash.2r3ekpov.dpuf



Don't forget someone drove those in to park em.

[Orsino]

10. The heat is insignificant...

...next to all the waste heat of non-nuclear human activity and warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.

But the radioactive poison is going to kill directly or otherwise contribute to higher mortality rates.