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I noticed that since it was quantitative. Hiroshima was 8 Yottabecquerels, which would require 9,000 years at 10,000 terabecquerels per hour to accomplish.

by Aron 16y ago

usaar333 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these units seem all messed up. A becquerel is the number of radioactive emissions per second. So stating becquerels per time is like talking about power per time. Are we talking about a mean over a period, a cumulative total (becquerels hour), or what? I'm guessing the Hiroshima blast number is the instantaneous peak.
- Aron 16y ago
  Yeah I mixed my units. We'd have to assume that's a peak figure and that it continued for a full second (or equivalent) to fix my comparison. I suspect the peak output was much briefer than a full second. Probably best to throw out my original comment.
dan_netwalker 16y ago
Hiroshima's "Little Boy": the first in history nuclear explosive device used to attack an enemy faction. According to figures published in 1945, 66,000 people were killed as a direct result, and 69,000 were injured to varying degrees. Total amount of nuclear fuel on site: approximately 600 to 860 milligrams of matter. Milligrams! And a big part of that got aniquilated in the explosion. Chernobil: one nuclear reactor explodes spreading radioactive materials in aerosol form. Total amount of nuclear fuel on site: 180 tonns. Fukushima: six nuclear reactors, one of them a plutonium reactor, gets severilly damaged after several eathquakes and a tsunami hits the nuclear plant, starts spreading radioactive materials in aerosol form and dumping tonns of contaminated water to the sea. Total amount of nuclear fuel on site: 7,200 tonns. Call me pesimistic, but I think this is an entirelly different leage, one that may make Chernobil look like a propane gas escape. And I wish I'm wrong...
- usaar333 16y ago
  Well, Little Boy was undergoing nuclear fission which releases far more energy than some radioactive materials. Fukushima is much better contained than Chernobyl; namely, the whole plant isn't on fire, spewing massive amounts of radioactive gasses.

I noticed that since it was quantitative. Hiroshima was 8 Yottabecquerels, which would require 9,000 years at 10,000 terabecquerels per hour to accomplish.

by Aron 16y ago

I noticed that since it was quantitative. Hiroshima was 8 Yottabecquerels, which would require 9,000 years at 10,000 terabecquerels per hour to accomplish.

usaar333 16y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these units seem all messed up. A becquerel is the number of radioactive emissions per second. So stating becquerels per time is like talking about power per time. Are we talking about a mean over a period, a cumulative total (becquerels hour), or what? I'm guessing the Hiroshima blast number is the instantaneous peak.

Aron 16y ago
Yeah I mixed my units. We'd have to assume that's a peak figure and that it continued for a full second (or equivalent) to fix my comparison. I suspect the peak output was much briefer than a full second. Probably best to throw out my original comment.

dan_netwalker 16y ago

Hiroshima's "Little Boy": the first in history nuclear explosive device used to attack an enemy faction. According to figures published in 1945, 66,000 people were killed as a direct result, and 69,000 were injured to varying degrees. Total amount of nuclear fuel on site: approximately 600 to 860 milligrams of matter. Milligrams! And a big part of that got aniquilated in the explosion. Chernobil: one nuclear reactor explodes spreading radioactive materials in aerosol form. Total amount of nuclear fuel on site: 180 tonns. Fukushima: six nuclear reactors, one of them a plutonium reactor, gets severilly damaged after several eathquakes and a tsunami hits the nuclear plant, starts spreading radioactive materials in aerosol form and dumping tonns of contaminated water to the sea. Total amount of nuclear fuel on site: 7,200 tonns. Call me pesimistic, but I think this is an entirelly different leage, one that may make Chernobil look like a propane gas escape. And I wish I'm wrong...

usaar333 16y ago
Well, Little Boy was undergoing nuclear fission which releases far more energy than some radioactive materials. Fukushima is much better contained than Chernobyl; namely, the whole plant isn't on fire, spewing massive amounts of radioactive gasses.