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re: There are some 6 billion people on the planet, if we all
Johannes — (archived)

peed in the same puddle, how big would the puddle be in 60 years?

US is storing at least 38796 tons of "spent nuclear fuel." How much kinetic energy does such amount of "spent nuclear fuel" contain and how much of that energy is transferred to the air molecules

At least 38796 tons of "spent" nuclear fuel (meaning of the word "spent" = more radioactive than before insertion into reactor) is stored in US alone.

I hesitate to guess how much of such stuff is stored elsewhere in the world.

A leak in Michigan 2005

This seemed interesting

Safety questions?

(This one)

(this one)

(and this one are interesting sites)

Prior leakage in the steam generators was about 3 gallons per day, considerably less than the technical specification limit.

Lets see about 400 nuclear stations in the world and each one is allowed to leak more than 3 gallons of radioactive tritium per day means that there can be at least 1200 gallons of tritium released every day into the environment.

365.25 days in a year times 50 years equals 18262.5 days times 1200 gallons equals 21,915,000 gallons of tritium in the environment.

I hope that this is not correct.

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