Comments on: Hosono Says Fukushima Plant Is in ‘Equivalent of Cold Shutdown’ via Bloomberg Businessweek http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/12/19/hosono-says-fukushima-plant-is-in-%e2%80%98equivalent-of-cold-shutdown%e2%80%99-via-bloomberg-businessweek/ Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: unspokenhermit http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/12/19/hosono-says-fukushima-plant-is-in-%e2%80%98equivalent-of-cold-shutdown%e2%80%99-via-bloomberg-businessweek/comment-page-1/#comment-101139 unspokenhermit Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:42:25 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/?p=11440#comment-101139 What about the MOX fuel reactor #3 that blew up with chunks of fuel rod found 2 kilometres away?
Is that one in cold shut down?

I just stumbled upon this study detailing high altitude radioactive contamination from Fukushima. It uses TEPCO and MEXT emission data to develop dispersion models of the radiation. If the models are correct the concentrations of contamination at upper altitudes are orders of magnitude higher than the concentrations at near ground levels.

http://www.datapoke.org/blog/8/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-radioactive-contamination-dispersion-utilizing-chino-m-et-al-source-terms/

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