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How much radioactive contamination did the 2011 Fukashima nuclear incident generate, and how much of it is actually getting cleaned up?

How much radioactive contamination did the 2011 Fukashima nuclear incident generate, and how much of it is actually getting cleaned up?


How much radioactive contamination did the 2011 Fukashima nuclear incident generate, and how much of it is actually getting cleaned up?

Posted: 12 May 2019 02:27 PM PDT

I haven't been able to find (as a non-Japanese speaker) any information on how much stuff was irradiated & cleaned up. I was specifically looking for info on topsoil. How much dirt was contaminated? How much topsoil has been, or is planned to be, removed & hauled elsewhere? How deep does does contamination show? Stuff like that. In my perfect world, I'd see a 3-D image of below ground contaminantion levels, and how much of that contamination would be cleaned up.

Re flair: I guessed it would be engineering, but wasn't entirely sure what category was the best fit.

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If you remove a part of your internal body or organ, like a large tumor or kidney, what fills that gap they left?

Posted: 12 May 2019 09:54 AM PDT

Semirelated side question- if the air that entered the body cavity during surgery or in that open gap, does anything happen to it or do you just have a bubble of air in you now?

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what ended the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum?

Posted: 12 May 2019 03:45 PM PDT

Why did superglue start to emit smoke,and get really hot, when a drop fall on my jeans?Is that toxic?

Posted: 12 May 2019 09:54 AM PDT

Do other mammals get sunburnt?

Posted: 12 May 2019 09:06 AM PDT

How do they get particles to strike each other in particles accelerators?

Posted: 12 May 2019 06:24 PM PDT

Given the dimensions of particle accelerators, and the minute nature of elementary particles, how can particles be made/aligned to hit each other? Given the velocity of the particles, this seems impossible.

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Why does Saturn have hexagonal poles?

Posted: 12 May 2019 02:37 PM PDT

How do we get vitamin(s) from the Sun?

Posted: 12 May 2019 09:37 AM PDT

Why do we use mice instead of pigs for most testing?

Posted: 12 May 2019 10:55 AM PDT

Since pigs are so close to humans

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How do power amplifiers turn a small voltage into a larger voltage?

Posted: 12 May 2019 10:29 AM PDT

I was wondering how they take electricity and turn it into a larger output. Do they store power and release it once it reaches the intended output? Or is there something inside that builds it up?

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How do vaccines work?

Posted: 12 May 2019 11:09 AM PDT

How do the vaccines know what to target, without causing side effects and/or killing the patient?

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Do things decay in space?

Posted: 12 May 2019 06:18 AM PDT

Was chatting with a friend, we were wondering if things decay in space? He said they wouldn't but I wasn't sure.

Cheers.

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If proteins are degraded in our digestive system, how come Mad Cow disease is transmitted by eating infected flesh?

Posted: 12 May 2019 12:21 AM PDT

I mean, I can understand how the prions are stable in heat, but the degradation of proteins is just hydrolysis of the peptide bond, why wouldn't that happen?

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