Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Iodine 131 Greatest Threat in Japanese Nuclear Disaster

Bingham Cady is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He helped operate Cornell’s now-closed on-campus nuclear reactor and has been a consultant for several nuclear energy companies.

Cady says: “Iodine 131 is the worst environmental actor emitting from the four stricken nuclear facilities in Japan’s northeast. It’s radioactive and has the potential to become airborne and travel downwind. It will also stick to soil and settle on the ground.

Source: Solar Thermal Magazine

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