Page 2 - Fuel Inside News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

To aviation experts. and the consequences are absolutely extraordinary. we've never seen anything like this in aviation security history. i would like to tap into catherine's focus on the system data that is coming in today. that system data is going to look at the range to -- the flight velocity to this aircraft. i guess that is the amount of time when the transponders tapped off. and the time is based on three factors, the lift to drag of the boeing 777. and on the other side, there is the weight ratio. the initial weight and the final weight. and then in between you have this thing called i...

You multiply that by how much uranium is in each fuel rod assembly and you get 4.3 million pounds of uranium at risk just in terms of the spent fuel that is stored there. that's over 1,900 metric tons of uranium. that is a lot. for reference, what blew up at chernobyl was a reactor with 180 tons of fuel inside. even if you are not a science person, even if you are just enough of a news person to be following this story with concern, it helps to understand what this radioactive stuff is. it is not monolithic. spent fuel is fuel that has been used already. it is therefore not as hot or as radioa...

To aviation experts. and the consequences are absolutely extraordinary. we've never seen anything like this in aviation security history. i would like to tap into catherine's focus on the system data that is coming in today. that system data is going to look at the range to -- the flight velocity to this aircraft. i guess that is the amount of time when the transponders tapped off. and the time is based on three factors, the lift to drag of the boeing 777. and on the other side, there is the weight ratio. the initial weight and the final weight. and then in between you have this thing called i...

Beyond just what is in the reactors there's also the radioactive fuel that used to be in the reactors that is now being kept at daiichi as spent fuel. there's more than seven times as much of that at daiichi as is in the reactors. tepco says there are over 11,000 fuel rod assemblies of spent fuel that are stored in spent fuel pools at daiichi. you multiply that by how much uranium is in each fuel rod assembly and you get 4.3 million pounds of uranium at risk just in terms of the spent fuel that is stored there. that's over 1,900 metric tons of uranium. that is a lot. for reference, what blew u...

There's more than seven times as much of that at daiichi as is in the reactors. tepco says there are over 11,000 fuel rod assemblies of spent fuel that are stored in spent fuel pools at daiichi. you multiply that by how much uranium is in each fuel rod assembly and you get 4.3 million pounds of uranium at risk just in terms of the spent fuel that is stored there. that's over 1,900 metric tons of uranium. that is a lot. for reference, what blew up at chernobyl was a reactor with 180 tons of fuel inside. even if you are not a science person, even if you are just enough of a news person to be fol...