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AndersHoveland
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Actually, some of those fusors can put out a fairly high neutron flux, even to the point of being hazardous.
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| Quote: | | Now they err too much on the side of caution. |
The explosions in Japan said otherwise.
| Quote: | | Use of radioisotope in consumer products should be encouraged. |
Someone has been reading too many old 1950s Popular Science magazines.
I weep at the sight of flaming acetic anhydride.
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Neutron radiation becomes dangerous at fluxes much lower than it takes to do a transmutation at an effective rate.
When radioactive isotopes are made, for example for medical use, they're put in an intensive neutron flux in a reactor and it takes some time to
finish the job i.e. to get a dilluted sample of a wanted isotope.
Plutonium was found in traces detectable with special counters that can calculate the energy of the rays and therefore determine what's likely to be
the source.
The amounts were very small and didn't represent any threat to anyone.
Caesium and iodine, that's a different story. They're volatile as we consider power plant premises, and quite mobile in biosphere. The cumulative leak
of the whole plant probably really exceeded the leak from Chernobyl. Luckily, the wind was blowing mainly eastward, towards the sea.
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