Reply #15: Can you compare the half-life of cesium to U-238? [View All]

[FBaggins]

If only 4% of the curies (from Cesium) were released (just taking your numbers), what percentage of the curies were released from the Uranium?

Chernobyl involved only 1 reactor - there are 3 damaged reactors at Fukushim

Yep... and a 4th that could be the most serious but least-damaged.

But if the figures in the OP overstate the potential release from a reactor by 1,000-fold or more... does it really become less of a deception if their are four of them?

The potential releases from Fukushima are several times that of Chernobyl - even if a small fraction of the total radionuclide inventory is released from individual reactors or spent fuel pools.

Even if?

Try answering the question above. Your "even if" BS (implying that that's by no means the worst-case) is already overstated.