93 One Liner Lies of the Nuclear Cartel

Classic One Liner Lies of Nuke

combomelt, from ENE used my list to create an awesome video, please watch it and drop a comment,


Well I added another one liner lie.    Rod Adams helped me find this lie when one of his twitter buddies did a post on how  solar energy never has a chance for the  future because making the solar energy devices takes more energy than they produce in their lifetime.   Wow, the levels these pimps will stoop to to promote their 'precious' nuclear radiation cartel.

The reality is that for PV panels, it takes about 6 months of energy production of the device in order to offset the energy used in producing the device.    And the lifetime is at least 30 years.

The lie in one liner form
"Solar Energy has no future because it takes more energy to create the solar system, than the solar system produces in it's lifetime"

You can probably use the search function to find some backup to each of these lies of nuclear.    When someone, be it media, a research organization, a government speaker, whoever, starts pimping out one of these lies, then you can start reading their material in a new, more suspicious light.

As a future project, I intend on following each sentence with a link to a concise debunk of each of these lies.    Its like shooting fish in a barrel.   Anyone who wants to volunteer a link and debunk, send as a comment.  

As you folks come across other nice One Liners, drop them as comments and I will add to the list.

1. ''No immediate health effects''
2. ''At safe levels to eat''
3. ''Nuclear is safe"
4. "Nuclear is cheap"
5. ''Dispersion in the ocean makes it harmless''
6. ''Dilution is the solution''
7. ''Too low to measure''
8. ''Safer than eating a banana''
9. "Larger dose from flying on an airplane"
10. "Sleeping next to someone gives you a larger radioactive dose"
11. "Become I131 radiation rapidly depletes due to quick half life, we don't have to worry about any of the radiation."
12. ''Nuclear power is cheap"
13. ''Part of background''
14. ''Definitely not caused by radiation''
15. ''We can rule radiation out as the cause''
16. ''No need to test''
17. ''Harmless at current levels''
18. ''It was a hydrogen explosion at Fukushima, impossible to have a nuclear explosion''
19. "Because you cannot prove that the disease was caused by a specific radiation, the information is not valid until proven by the scientific method."
20. "Nuclear is safe because they have backup power"
21. "Nuclear is safe because background radiation is high, so don't worry about a little more"
22. "The radiation from that release is in 'the noise' of the background radiation"
23. "It's green and clean"
24. "Nuclear is the only thing that can save the climate from excess carbon"
25. "Nuclear plants have pooled insurance"
26. "The nuclear plants were forced by the NRC to set aside enough money to fully decomission the plant when it is done with its life." ----------- Sellafield 70B
27. "The original 40 year number wasn't the 'design life' it was just an arbitrary number that meant nothing"
28. "When we are done with the plant, we will return the land in an untouched 'greenfield' condition"
29. "The NRC makes nuclear industry safe by regulating them"
30. "The IAEA regulates the worldwide nuclear industry"
31. "No deaths caused by nuclear radiation from civilian plants"
32. "Just keep smiling and radiation will not hurt you"
33. "Thorium reactors are completely safe"
34. "Defense in depth 'safety protocol' at nuke plants means that a major accident should only happen about every 2000 years."
35. "All the nuclear waste in the world could fit in a football field"
36. "The solution for nuclear waste is a single permanent repository"
37. "Nuclear power emits ZERO CO2"
38. "Reactors cannot blow up like nuclear bombs"
39. "No radiation from Japan will reach the USA"
40. "Price-Anderson is what brings nuclear regulation to any nuclear activity"
41. "Our meters are so good, and can measure radiation so small, that we refuse to present any actual data because it will just scare people"
42. "The fear of radiation is much more harmful than the radiation itself"
43. "We are from the government, we are here to help" 
44. "A little bit of radiation is actually good for you, are you getting enough?"
45. "At no time was there any danger to the public"
46. "Just because a nuke worker was sent home 'unfit to work' doesn't actually mean anything important"
47. "Fukushima not as bad as Chernobyl"
48. "None of the radiation went into the ocean it was all contained in the 1.4 SQ KM 'zone' <Abe>"
49. "Fukushima is in cold shutdown"
50. "Fukushima will absolutely not effect the 2020 Olympics"
51. "There are good people working in nuclear, therefore you shouldn't talk bad about their chosen profession"
52. "Don't worry about living within 20 miles of a reactor, just take your iodine pill when the authorities tell you to, and you will be fine."
53. "If you are Anti-Nuke, that means you are pro-coal"
54. "If you are Anti-Civilian Nuclear Reactors, then you are anti- nuke submarines and therfore, anti national security"
55. "There have only been a handful of nuclear accidents"
56. "What you are measuring is leftover from the cold war bomb testing"
57. "Cancer is normal and wide spread"
58. "You can drink 32g of Plutonium and you'll be fine"
59. "No one was killed by Fukushima"
60. "There was no plutonium released by Fukushima"
61. "No one could have predicted a tsunami so high"
62. Reactor 4 was a hydrogen explosion with hydrogen transferred from Reactor 3 ------
63. "Solar Energy has no future because it takes more energy to create the solar system, than the solar system produces in it's lifetime"

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Add ons from readers!

1. "Nuclear power is too cheap to meter"
2. "There will always be power and backup generators to prevent a meltdown."
3. "Humanity can contain the atom and it won't kill the innocent."
4. "Each nuclear plant insures itself, and just in case their insurance runs out, there is plenty of extra coverage in 'pooled insurance'  from all the reactors."
5. "Entergy is NOT a slum lord"
6. "Anyone who is opposed to nuclear power is a 'fearmonger' "
7. "All those poor people in Japan are dying because they are homesick, they never should have been evacuated from Fukushima" <this coming from a nuclear engineering professor>
8. "Diabetes in Fukushima kids being caused by radiophobic parent forcing kids to play indoors leading to unhealthy lifestyle"
9. "Increased cancers in Japan cannot possibly be caused by Fukushima because cancer takes more time to grow."
10. "No one died from Fukushima" ---- FOIA docs says otherwise 5 Death Lethal Rads
11. "The radiation on the us coast is not from Fukushima but probably from red radioactive plastic eating utensils" -- We refuse to even rebutt this one, this statement by a State official is insulting in it's ignorance.
12. "If we store it deep underground, everything will work out fine"  AGR Fallacy of Nuke Storage
13. "Plutonium and Americium are heavy metals, so they won't go very far in the air" 
14. "My family and I live here, therefore it must be safe" Said at the WIPP propagnda dissemination event.
15. fearmongering
16. Arnie is pro-Nuke
17. sodium reactors are safe
18. Thorium reactors have no waste
19. reactor grade plutonium is not the same as weapons grade plutonium
20. transmutation the alchemist's dream
21. Brown's Gas
22. Roy's Process
23. "cold" fusion
24. nuclear energy is to increase water availability
25. radioactive particles decay to safe non-radioactive particles
26. radiation is good for you (aka whoremesis)
27. vitrification
28. safe repository
29. clean and green
30. no CO2 emissions
31. 
    
32. "Nobody could have predicted such rare occurrence."
    "We were previously unaware of problems."
    "Our best and brightest people are on the job."
    "It was only a minor incident."
    "Our customers are important to us." 
    stock, do you have FactCheckers's one liner: expose children to radiation so they will be immune to radiation later in life.
    Troll at ENE: no thanks. You have your own anti nuke jihad ..I don't care for radicalized soldiers. 
33. The dropping of the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima was necessary, it saved hundreds of thousands of lives.      Debunk ---- http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_Weber.html

I apologize to some contributors who listed their comments on other sites...while do multiple updates, some of my earliest started updates, "covered up" subsequent updates!  Sheesh, I hate is when that happens.    Maybe I'll just ask the NSA for an interim archive version, LOL!

And last, but not least, we get some some quality rhetoric and wisdom from the latest troll infesting ENENEWS and here----laughable.    At least socref could pretend to be civilized.

And try saying that to say, a Grizzly Bear, or perhaps, Leukemia.      What doesn't kill you sometimes just makes you weaker...that  is the way that radiation works. 

30 Ways The Nuclear Industry Deceives Everyone; via @AGreenRoad

http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.htmlhttp://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html


https://theoldspeakjournal.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/the-tsunami-of-lies-about-nuclear-power/

http://www.nuclearpowerdanger.com/http://www.nuclearpowerdanger.com/


And let's not forget ''the scientific method'', without which where would we be lol.

Fukushima Reactor 3, Did the Reactor Itself Blow it's Lid, Or Fuel / Equipment Pool, or all?

Here are some pictures to consider.    There has been a hot debate at ENENEWS today about what exactly did blow up.   I will add to this post later.

The fall harvest is underway and the garden stuffed green peppers are baking and it is time to fry up the swiss chard (my job)

The Radiation Still to go into WIPP can Contaminate the Entire Planet

I did some calculation to "bring it home" —just the amount of "low level" waste they want to still put into WIPP, is enough to, if spread evenly among all humans, animals, fish, plankton, plants of all sorts, to bring the entire world up to 70 Bq/lb.
And animals at 30 Bq/lb start having severe health problems


Note that even thought the Remote Handled Waste is only 4% of the waste by volume, it is 3/7th of the total radioactivity.

Per the former WIPP lab manager, James Conca, they have stuff in WIPP way hotter than anything at Hanford, 7 Curies per liter.   That is enough to bring 1,000,000,000 Costco size chickens up to 200 Bq/lb.   

Again, severe damage is done to animals at 30 Bq/lb.      You can't sell any animals over 100 Bq/lb as food even though they are being "diluted" by other food.  

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I read a whole WIPP report, they are brutal to read. But amazing truths jump out at you. They pretend that WIPP is only for Transuranics (Plutonium and higher) but it is not, they are stashing a hundred different isotopes in there, including some old favorites like Cesium and Strontium!
In the report they state the future incoming radiation inventory, its 9.81E16 Bq, add 16 zeros.
If you take all of the living things on earth and calculate total mass and divide the Bq by that you get
70 Bq per lb. Into every living thing on earth
Just what is planned to go into WIPP is enought to contaminate every thing on earth to very dangerous levels.

Total bio mass on earth
700 Billion Tons
2000 lbs per ton
1400000 Billion pounds
1,400,000,000,000,000 pounds of biomass on earth
 
Total Curies of ONLY the remote handled waste intended for WIPP
1.15E+06 RH Activity Only
3.70E+10 bq per Curie
4.26E+16 Bq for Remote Handled Only to enter WIPP in the future
30 Bq per Lb of every living thing on earth (for only the RH Remote Handled Waste)

Total Curies to enter WIPP in future, Remote Handled and Contact Handled
2.65E+06 RH and CH Activity
3.70E+10 bq per Curie
9.81E+16 Bq for RH and CH WIPP in the future
70 Bq per Lb of every living thing on earth  (for the remote and contact handled)

Source Data
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/library/TRUwaste/ATWIR_2013_Rev_1.pdf

Government Employed Trolls Show at NukePro and ENENEWS to disrupt --- SOCREF

Socref shows up again on September 20 at Nukepro, see below, comment was sent to moderation review by Google blogger software.

I received this comment on 9-20-2014

The a "new troll" shows up at ENENEWS and pretends not to be socref, even responding "who is this socref you keep talking about".

But he is nailed out of the gate, using his classic lines of "steam is far more deadly than radiation" and "that dog don't hunt".

A few months back he stated that his wife had died from cancer.   Now just yesterday he stated that his 14 year old son had died from cancer and he was sure it wasn't radiation.

The nuclear cartel is worried, they have their back to the wall and are trying every game in the book to try to extract more money from people, take pot shots at true renewable energy sources, and ride on the coattails of the global warming lie. 

Although the internet is a great tool, it is sad that it is used for propaganda from the Criminals that Be.  

31 Page Report on Fukushima Inventory and Airborne Releases

This is a great report.   Professionally done by scientists who haven't sold out.

http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/2313/2012/acp-12-2313-2012.pdf

Total Radiation Inventory at Fukushima

A pro-radiation shrill (Aptly name Cyril) has been attacking Nukepro throughout the blogophere.   She states in her comment below----

Less than 0.01 kg of Sr-90 was released. This will convert to less than 0.01 kg of Y-90 which will convert to the same amount of stable zirconium, which is non toxic.

 So I had to do some calcs to convert Bq to grams, she says 10 grams (.01 kG) of Strontium was released.    Hmmm that seems a bit low to me.   Oh I see....about half of the inventory of Fukushima was exploded and aerosolized into the atmosphere, over 3000 lbs of Strontium, but the shrill shill states that less than half an ounce of Strontium got out, ever.

Right, and they detected Strontium in Hawaii milk (they do have cows in Hawaii) before the DOH was told to implement the BP playbook to "protect" our Japanese friends and the nuke cartel. 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/27/970610/-Radioactive-Strontium-Found-in-Hilo-Hawaii-Milk-Forbes-today#

Hilarious, they reported the Strontium 89!   As a way to say....hey it only has a half life of 55 days, no problem, in 2 years it will be all gone.     Funny how the radiation cartel just refuses to even talk about strontium 90, half life around 30 years.       

And they found 145Bq/kG south of Tokyo, story here
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/strontium-90-discovered-in-yokohama.html

At the bottom of this post is a discussion of radiation releases from various sources over the course of the "nuclear age", from ENENEWS.

A while back I spent about half a day to gather information and do some calculations.    Surprisingly, the NRC provided the data I needed directly to me.    That was sure useful of them.   

Here are the net results.      Truly an astounding amount of radiations at Fukushima.   Well, was at Fukushima, they "gifted" much of it to the world.  

Bq        Bq/M3
7.15E+18    Sr 90     10.83
7.15E+18    Y 90     10.83
2.38E+18    Zr 95     3.61
5.34E+18    Nb 95     8.09
1.87E+19    Ru 106     28.36
1.87E+19    Rh106     28.36
9.23E+18    Cs134     13.99
9.60E+18    Cs137     14.55
9.08E+18    Ba 137m     13.76
3.51E+19    Ce144     53.20
3.51E+19    Pr144     53.20
9.93E+18    Pm147     15.05
1.13E+19    Pu241     17.15
1.79E+20    Total of Major Isotopes    270.98












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Angela_R

August 13, 2014 at 1:28 pm · Reply

Arizonan, you may wish to look at the following and check out the radioactive waste discharged into the ocean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ocean
The following comes from the above wikipedia link:
The countries involved — listed in order of total contributions measured in TBq (TBq=1012 Becquerel) — were the USSR, the UK, Switzerland, the US, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Russia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy and South Korea. Together, they dumped a total of 85,100 TBq (85.1x1015Bq) of radioactive waste at over 100 ocean sites, as measured in initial radioactivity at the time of dump.
For comparison:
magnitude of radiation
Global fallout of nuclear weapon tests — 2,566,087x1015Bq.[4]
1986 Chernobyl disaster total release — 12,060x1015Bq.[5]
2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, estimated total aerial release — 11,346x1015Bq.[6]
Fukishima Daiichi nuclear plant cooling water dumped (leaked) to the sea — TEPCO estimate 4.7x1015Bq, Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission estimate 15x1015Bq,[7] French Nuclear Safety Committee estimate 27x1015Bq.[8]
Naturally occurring Potassium 40 in all oceans — 14,000,000x1015Bq.[9]
One container (net 400kg) of vitrified high-level radioactive waste has an average radioactivity of 4x1015Bq (Max 45x1015Bq).
However, I do wonder where the US was storing their waste; I would have thought they would have had a similar amount to Britain and possibly the Soviet Union.
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Additional info to add to the spreadsheet later

§                                           Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant

Regarding133Xe, we find a total release of 15.3 EBq, which is more than twice as
high as the total release from Chernobyl and likely the largest
radioactive noble gas release in history

resulting in 50,000 mbq/m^3 air, up from 0.1mbq/m^3 background, or 500,000 times

There is strong evidence that the
133Xe release started
before the first active venting was made, possibly indicating
structural damage to reactor components (and SFP4) and/or leaks due to
overpressure which would have allowed early release of no-
ble gases. For 137Cs, the inversion results give a total emis-
sion of 36.6 (20.1–53.1) PBq,

http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/2313/2012/acp-12-2313-2012.pdf

 

Science and Governments have been purchased, Global Warming proven false

The latest Conca shill push is for "more radiation" and now its "listen to us because we call ourselves scientists". A few comments from a reader at Forbes are below. I think he nails the issues nicely. Go visit the article at Forbes too and leave a comment.

 Also to keep this "science" thing in context, bear in mind the number of scientists who continue to lie about "global warming". Nukepro settled that issue once and for all. There has been no warming for the last 17 years. Here is the proof using real data.

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/08/global-warming-real-information-from.html

Visit the Conca Shill here

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/08/03/science-is-not-democratic/

Finally the reader comments, spot on, but I wonder if he is being sarc with "great faith in Obama".....
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• Terry Trent 1 day ago
  Correcting earlier comment:
  You have got to be kidding me!? The single largest practitioners of junk science in the United States or you could just as easily call them liars and con men, are the members at the highest levels of our Public Health System. Mainly ATSDR and EPA. Although EPA has a few competent scientists who know that following the mandates of ATSDR is wrong, but will not speak up. Can not speak up under threat of firing.
  You don’t believe me? From past History look up Tuskegee Alabama syphilis epidemic for historical context. Look up Libby Montana for 50 years of abuse currently under way. Still not convinced? Have a health professional help you out with mesothelioma death rates in Jefferson Parrish Louisiana…10 times larger than Libby Montana from a similar environmental epidemic. No Public Health Emergency there even at 10 times the first and largest ever declared. OK so you are hugely skeptical? Contact Dr. Marc Shencker at UC Davis epidemiology and ask for death rates in Amador, Tulomne and El Dorado Counties California from environmental Tremolite. So what? Look up the dates of first publications of Libby Montana problems, and Metsovo Greece Metsovo Lung published in the US by Stavros Constantopoulis and Arthur M. Langer.
  Still don’t get it? Try this on for size. Real Estate is the most valuable asset to Unites States local government, the most valuable asset to business on par, throughout the US. The government would clear the path to moving housing tracks on top of active volcanoes if people could not see it for themselves. These agencies ATSDR, EPA, State EPA, local Health Departments,although some are making the common scientific mistake of following those they think are smarter than themselves, but most are not, “task themselves”, emphasis added, to fake testing, skew test results and otherwise obscure important information that individuals should have, all in the name of “not panicking the people”. All of these Public Health Agencies work directly or indirectly for the President of the United States.
  Although I have great faith in Obama..there is a huge gap that has existed long before he entered office, between the Presidency and his scientific minions. He or they as the case has been, are the very last to know what their scientists are doing.
  
  • Called-out comment
  Reply
• Terry Trent 1 day ago
  Hmmm. Well I thought my words were overly aggressive. Not seeing the defensiveness other than the whole position of standing in front of public health scientists, who succumb to a political “story” is of course defending. It is defending the integrity of science, the well being of humans, the entity of family and friends. Each of the scientists I refer to manipulate what is presented to the public, from the starting point of falsifying testing procedures to adjusting data to conform to that story. If proven wrong publicly,they become embarrassed for brief periods before realizing that there are so few people who understand or care, on any given subject, that they may easily revert to their original or nearly their original story, usually until they retire and are safely away from the controversy they may have left behind.
  Obama has no earthly idea at all. He has no adviser who would know ether. Neither did George Bush. Hillary knew very well what I was speaking of and acted upon what I gave her to the best of her ability. She took Cheney down on the subject for 7 years. He did not get what he wanted in year one, until the last year of Bush’s presidency. Then Bush from the presidential podium of State of teh Nation gave him precisely what he wanted…a way for companies across the nation to avoid the entire liability of what they had done…especially Haliburton…but certainly many others.
  These people/scientists I speak of act outside our government in a way. They do not report to anyone in the White House other than the office of Budget Management…..who controls the executive agencies by purse strings…not by policy. Well I should accurately say, not by overseen policy. They invent as they go along…in a way inventing good news by adjusting science, so they do not have to report bad news to their boss. Their boss being the President.
  On a very positive note….where you do find the scientists who do not succumb to politically motivated government dogma/stories,”the good guys” is in academia. Not everyone mind you, but a bunch. Those who have been in the trenches their entire careers, fighting, quietly, methodically, brilliantly against the corruption of our entire construct of science….partially to no avail. I refer you to Dr. Bruce Case who will no more like the way I presented the above than you do….but who will substantively not disagree much. (He will not be shy about letting me know). Who has maintained an aggressive but somewhat positive and brilliantly subtle approach throughout his long career. These “good guys”struggle directly with scientist who have “sold out”, but their real battle is with government…it is a struggle almost 99% of government has no idea is even going on.
  Finally, I will leave you with what amounts to more than an anecdote. Our EPA, meaning the full force of our Federal governments legal ability, took WR Grace to a Jury trial on criminal charges regarding what happened in Libby Montana. Long story of course, all of it relating to enormous incompetency within government scientists, but their was one newspaper man named David Latham, who summed up the acquittal of WR Grace beautifully at the end of the trial with one sentence. Not certain I am quoting it word for word but you will get the idea. “EPA can not convict someone who they have always been in partnership with”. Therein lies almost all of the problem as it pertains to scientists being politically controlled.
  

CS134 /CS137 Ratio and Food Chain in Alaska - Dangerous Levels of Radioactivity

Lichens in Alaska were tested in June 2011 and had extremely high levels of both Cesium 134 and Cesium 137.    Around 6000 to 8000 pCi/ kg.


And the ratio of 134 to 137 was around .8.     What that means is that all of this cesium is directly attributed to Fukushima.

Here is the full report you can download, its big

Alaska 2011 Radiation in Food Sources Report 300 pages

Here is how it works.     CS137 has a half life of 30 years, CS134 has half life of 2 years.    So if the radiation was from 4 years ago, the CS would fall to around 25% of where it started.

It just so happens that the 137 and 134 quantities are about a 1 to 1 ratio at the beginning, with some variance based on the degree of fuel burnup.   Color chart below shows actual test results for Fuku.   The ratio was about .85.

The actual ratio measured in the lichens was right around .80 on average.   So all of this is due to Fukushima


Got it?    The lowest level of the food chain is highly contaminated.   That was 2011, they are not planning on testing again until 2016.   Does that make any sense?

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Bringing it Home, Understanding Cesium Deposition at Fukushima and Stirred Up Dust

I like doing this type of calculations that "Bring it Home"

Some others at ENENEWS have gotten good at it. With all the big numbers, scientific notation, various ways of expressing radiation units that the pro-radiation stakeholders use to confuse people....well it's nice when something is presented in an easy to wrap your head around way.

OLDFOOL Since a trillionth of a gram of Cs-137 emits over 3.2 becquerel, a gram of Cs-137 would emit over 3.2 trillion becquerels. So if they are saying that all the dust they created released no more than 4 trillion becquerels, they are implying they only stirred up 1.25 grams of Cs-137 in the dust. I cannot imagine any construction project at that site only stirring up 1.25 grams of Cs-137 in the dust. Most construction projects stir up several kilograms of dust. It would not be pure Cs-137 of course. But it would be more than 1.25 grams. Somebody has made a mistake in their math.

 Securitize July 17, 2014 at 10:04 pm · Reply A Becquerel indicates, on average, an amount of radiation where one radioactive “decay” event occurs each second. 37 billion becequerels are in one curie, or 37 billion disintegrations per second.

Potassium 40 exists in bananas and other fruits and is very weakly radioactive, 71 ten-millionTHs of a curie pure gram. By contrast, cesium 137 has 88 curies per gram. Indeed Cs 137 and Sr 90 emit 10-20 million times more radioactivity than comparable amounts of potassium 40.

Cesium 137 is a significant portion of the long-lasting radioactive isotopes emitted during a nuclear meltdown or other accident. The amount of cesium 137 deposited per square kilometer can thus be used to determine whether that land is fit for human habitation. The lands around the Chernobyl and Fukushima reactors are considered completely uninhabitable for decades based on ~10 curies per square km, or if you like ~25 curies per square mile.

Thus, slightly more than 1/3 of ONE GRAM of cesium 137, deposited across a square mile of land as a smoke or gas, is enough to render that land uninhabitable for decades. Contamination of ~10 curies per square km, ~25 curies per square mile, or ~1/3 of a gram of Cs 137 per sq mi, renders the area unfit for raising crops or livestock. For comparison, dozens of nuclear power plants in the US hold fuel rods containing more than 100 million curies of Cs 137. Remember that just 100 curies can render 1 sq mi uninhabitable.

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