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Originally Posted by Linkster
Unfortunately they fail to mention that if you had one of these in an earthquake of a magnitude of about 5 and up you would crack the concrete and have a worse dispersal of material than they have in Japan right now - and I tend to believe that Homeland Security would have some real issues with these  |
I'll have to take your expert advice on that, but I do believe that they are sealed metal units!
As far as Homeland Security, as mentioned in the article, you would have to break into the area, use heavy equipment to dig the unit up, break into the actual unit itself, and deal with a small amount of material that is "too hot(temperature wise) to handle" manually! People might just happen to notice this going on!
Also, the material is so low grade, you would need massive amounts, and massive technology to upgrade it!
I come from an uranium mining & processing part of the country, and radiation levels are constantly monitored! Studies show that nuclear workers tend to be exposed to about half the radiation as normal people!
Perhaps because of protective work gear, working in "shielded" areas, more caution about X-rays/CTs, etc.
http://www.brucepower.com/docs/Topic...ugust%2026.pdf
Actually in one small processing town, the cancer rate is lower than average population, and the cancer rate for nuclear employees working there is lower even than the rate for the town!
That sort of ties in with family history(living in a uranium mining area) where almost nobody seems to die from cancer, although there are the other normal medical problems! We just blame it on constant radiation theraphy from the slightly higher background radiation! There are some actual long term studies of my family being conducted about this effect!
