Will someone comment on the Te132?
Seen in the EPA report as recent as 4/4/2011? Seems like you should let us know what the implications are at this level of finding.
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Seen in the EPA report as recent as 4/4/2011? Seems like you should let us know what the implications are at this level of finding.
Tellurium
The Berkeley team has also found some:
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/AirSamplingResults
And:
Submitted by dchivers on Thu, 2011-03-24 06:31.
We do see Te-132 and the decay daughter of I-132 along with I-131, Cs-134, and Cs-137 in trace amounts. Just because we see Te-132, does not necessarily mean a core meltdown, but it does indicate a significant release of fission products from the fuel. Te-132 has a half life of about 3 days and therefore we know this is from one of the three operating reactors that were shutdown at the earthquake as opposed to the spent fuel pools which had been shutdown for greater than 100 days. When a reactor shuts down, the production of these nuclides cease and this kind of starts a clock where after a certain amount of time, certain nuclides decay away. Te-132 is one of these and so it gives us some indication of where the release came from. No data from our measurements point to a meltdown, however, I think the accepted assumption is that all three units at Fukushima have some sort of core damage. The extent of this damage is still unknown.
The levels are now down at or below their minimum detectable amount.
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i was going to ask the same thing. can someone explain to me what the EPA rainfall readings mean, and i mean like actual amounts of tellurium would be in an average sample and how that would correlate to acutal amounts present in the environment. or can you show me a quick conversion from the EPA measurements and actual amounts, i don't care about the scale, i need to extrapolate some meaningful data.