How Bad is the Reactor Meltdown in Japan? Benjamin Monreal, UCSB (Part 6 of 6)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Np73E0EkC4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHRx5Vj5Uw0
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mi2FaoNwwc
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ8IXFU6PT0
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rRPNJsJBdU

Assistant Professor Benjamin Monreal, UCSB Department of Physics, will give an overview of radioactivity and reactors, radiation health and safety, and the ultimate fate of the materials coming out of the stricken reactors in Sendai.

Why is it worse than Three Mile Island? Why is it (probably) not as bad as Chernobyl? How worried are scientists? How worried should you be?

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session with a panel including Theo Theofanous, Professor of Chemical and of Mechanical Engineering, and Patrick McCray, Professor of History, both of UCSB.

Part 6 of 6

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[edwardtang1977]

fact: the company requested to give up and save the 50 workers. The emperor wouldn't allow it. it means it is hopeless. If no fission, what is giving out radiation that needs people to be 80km out? Water can only cool it temporarily unless you keep on dumping on it forever. I don't hear anyway to stop it only delay it.