Witnessing the Meltdown

This is encouraing:

“"When they do inventories they really have to look at it (now)," said Lochbaum, noting that as the plant had not operated for many years there would have been a considerable decay in the radioactivity of the rods. “

I don’t understand the comment that there’s been “considerable decay of radioactivity of the rods.” I thought this was why we need Yucca Mountain – that this stuff takes 10,000s of years to decay to “safe” levels.




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