THE HILL: Company warns of 'imminent radiological threat' after Chinese nuclear plant leak: report

[Duffyjr]

Clickbait type of headlines have actually made me better informed on some subjects now. They force me to question everything and try and see what position is being pushed. They force me to dig deeper for the truth in many cases.

Sometimes the deeper I dig I just find more .

 

[Jetronic]

Homer simpson looks kinda yellow... maybe it's springfield, china? That would explain the cracked rods...

 

[MolaKule]

So if the Xeon was discharged with only 9.2 days half life (is that correct?), how far can it travel distance wise?

I think the reference here is to Xenon-135. It is a decay product of the U-235 decay chain which produces Tellurium-135 and then Iodine-135 and then Xenon-135. Xenon-135 produces a daughter Beta isotope of Cesium-135.

The half life is ~ = 0.693/ Decay Constant Lambda is ~ = 0.693/0.0753/hour, or a half-life of approx. 9.2 hours. Some sources quote a half-life of from 9.14 hours to 9.2 hours.

For a 60 mph wind, an original isotope of Xenon-135 would travel about 552 miles to its Half-Life point, or about 2500 miles before it was almost non-detectable.

The distance from Taishan to San Francisco is approx. 6,066 miles.