Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Why Isn't Hiroshima a Nuclear Wasteland Like Chernobyl?" video.

Yes, that was a very interesting point! I wish he would have mentioned the percentages of enrichment between the bomb fuel & power plant fuel. (Maybe he did and I missed it?)
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I think it was an interesting comparison why the melt down where the fuel was slightly enriched, created a multi-generational dead zone while nuclear bombs with highly enriched material did not. That being said, some of the test sites would be interesting to review, considering how top secret those sites are.
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“spent fuel rods are nowhere near as radioactive and we use them for munitions” Most depleted uranium, used in munitions & armor, arises as a by-product of the production of enriched uranium for use as fuel in nuclear reactors and in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Enrichment processes generate uranium with a higher-than-natural concentration of lower-mass-number uranium isotopes (in particular 235 U, which is the uranium isotope supporting the fission chain reaction) with the bulk of the feed ending up as depleted uranium. Munitions are not commonly made from spent fuel rods, since the spent fuel rods would need to go through a recycling process. Spent fuel rods are very radioactive. The cost to recycle them, just to produce depleted uranium munitions, is cost prohibitive. The US Obama administration backtracked from President Bush's plans for commercial-scale reprocessing reverted to a program focused on reprocessing-related scientific research.
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@jimfrazier8611 - yeah… I knew the fuel in the reactor has a very low enrichment percentage, but a lot of it in an accident still made a very long lasting mess. Contrasting that to the results of a relatively small amount of fissile material, enriched to a very high percentage, making a shorter lasting mess, is a bit counter intuitive, but it would have made the presentation more complete. The tsunami arriving when it did, to dilute & wash out radioactive fallout, was pretty amazing. This was something I was unaware of.
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It is quite cynical that Russian commanders told their soldiers to dig in at the forest that their system of government quite literally created some decades earlier. What a shame… both how the former communist regime treated their people & occupied nations for nearly a century and how the post communist dictatorship treats their people & occupied nations now.
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@Cuntsville -”white people” Oh boy, that explains the comment… there is a racist among us…
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