This may be true.
from: http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/01/radioactive-bucky-balls-thi...
Friday, January 27, 2012
RADIOACTIVE BUCKY BALLS!!! Think HOT PARTICLES are Bad? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET !!!
If you thought HOT PARTICLES where bad, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET!
"Experts" are starting to get a glimpse into how little they know about the witches' brew coming out of Fukushima. Today's revelation is that Fukushima Uranium is forming Bucky Balls via the action of salt water.
The picture above is a Carbon "Bucky Ball". So what is so bad about Radioactive Uranium Bucky balls? Well, picture some one throwing very fine, non caking, radioactive "talcum powder" into the air; that in essence is the outcome of this finding.
But it gets worse, imagine that radioactive "talcum powder" behaving and dispersing the exact same way when thrown into the water.
But it gets worse, notice in the picture above that the Buck Ball is actually a cage, now picture plutonium atoms trapped inside that cage.
But it gets worse, now picture how much greater a target these Bucky Balls are for spallation in the upper atmosphere.
What this finding means is that ALL the dispersion models are wrong, and NOT in the good way. It also means that the internal impact and damage from inhaling or consuming these particles is far greater than would other wise be expected. However, don't expect the "it's safe" mantra to change.
If you want to even begin to have an idea how bad this situation is, Google the medical effects of Nano Particles(and remember they are discussing NON-Radioactive nano-particles)
Is this article just fear mongering?
I don't understand the science behind this article. It seems to me that if a bucky ball has formed around a radioactive particle it would be acting as a shield to protect the environment from radiation. Kind of like the white blood cells gathering around a foreign object in the body. Wouldn't this be a good thing? If it's just the uranium is clumping into balls wouldn't that make the particals less fine and less able to disperse?
Then the article talks about the upper atmosphere but it started out saying that these bucky balls were forming because of a reaction with the sea water. How do these ball get out of the ocean into the upper atmosphere?
Maybe, Wendy. I couldn't follow the science, either. Here's another article on the subject that might make it clearer...
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/02/beta-watch/all/1/