# Fukushima still melting down, still a nuclear disaster **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282 "2013-10-03T17:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 313
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/313 "2014-01-11T22:34:50Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > You don’t need enrichment with a reactor to use the material as weapons. A few dozen pounds of powdered spent fuel would be more devastating than an H bomb in terms of deaths. Just spread it from the air over a populated areas, death beyond imagining. Holy shit, you _ARE_ right!!! China [burned 3.8 billion tons of coal in 2011](http://science.time.com/2013/01/29/the-scariest-environmental-fact-in-the-world/) and [coal contains ~1 ppm of uranium and thorium in its matrix](http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html)! This means that China released ~4000 tons of radioactive components into the environment in the coal smoke and fly ash. 4000 TONS OF FUCKING POWDERED DEATH SPRINKLED IN POPULATED AREAS! The result? [500,000 people dying EVERY FUCKING YEAR](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10555816/Chinas-airpocalypse-kills-350000-to-500000-each-year.html) because of this radioactive pollution. Holy shit. I am sorry about all the bad stuff I thought about your, **FXMastermind**. I thought you were a brain dead moron. I thought you were a shill in the pay of the petroleum industries. I thought you were a fucking troll that was just posting the stuff you did because you got some weird kind of perverted sexual thrill posting mindless drivel on the internet. I actually envisioned you slowly stroking your tiny member while posting unscientific garbage on topics you didn’t understand and laughing gleefully and breathlessly as you came when people tried time and again to correct your ill structured and wrong ideas. But mea culpa, **FX** , mea culpa. You were right; radiation _IS_ being released into the environment and millions are dying just like you said. Fucking A, I have not been this wrong in a long time and I am truly sorry. Tool. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282)._