plutonium is not produced at Fukoshima .. stop imagining things to scare yourselves.

Interesting statement, rpg...perhaps these reactors produce mayonnaise

....in any case, that's not what TEPCO says,

However, according to NHK they did say, "...the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima plant was powered with uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel,,,it cannot identify which reactor released the plutonium because plutonium is produced at other reactors using uranium fuel".

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/06_40.html

poirot

"1. Plutonium detected in the soil around the plant. A few isotopes of plutonium (Pu) have been found in soil at various test sites at the FD plant. This has sent some folks on Twitter apoplectic. So where does it come from?

One theory, and quite a reasonable one, is that it is the global residual left over from the extensive atmospheric atomic weapons testing of the 1950s — 1970s. That would help explain the presence of Pu-238, for instance — an isotope not readily created in a power reactor.

http://bravenewclimate.com/ Professor Barry Brooks, Australia

You get your facts from the Media, I get mine from scientists .. go figure

stop scaring yourself .. read Barry's site .. he is in touch with other experts, the mass media have no clue but to compete to scare you, clearly doing a great job - mind you if you prefer hysterics and fiction, please avoid Barry's site continue to hunt down fictional rubbish.

rpg,

You should have included a little more information to your quote from Barry Brook's site, such as:

"Another thought is that there is a local source, either from volatisation of sloughed material in the drying spent fuel ponds, or perhaps from the reactor cores...Remember Pu is present in all spent fuel....All reactor fuel elements that have been fissioning will contain plutonium."

You stated that plutonium was not produced at Fukushima.

mon amie, don't believe a word Brook (without the 's' rpg) says - he is an 'alarmist' just like myself :)

So happy to hear you get your facts from scientists, rpg. Going by your record, nope.

If you've been following the site rpg, it's Fukushima with a 'u'.

Scientists have to dot the 'i's and cross the 't's.

You must be an "engineer" then - what 'type' nobody knows.