Plutonium is a heavy element and not easily dispersed, he said, so higher levels outside the reactor suggested a wider leak.
The stent implantation with a large wide diameter offers a good chance to close more extensive leaks and prevent stent migration.
"I have always argued that the containment is broken, and that there is the danger of a wider radiation leak," Mr. Koide said.
Still, wide-ranging leak investigations can also have unintended consequences -- as when Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor investigating the disclosure during the Bush administration of the identity of a Central Intelligence Agency operative, Valerie Plame Wilson, ended up charging Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., with lying to the F.B.I. under questioning.
Stools were collected into a sterile, wide mouth, leak-proof container with a tight fitting lid containing a preservative solution.
The White House, evidently chastened by the fallout in recent days, has begun suggesting that some restrictions on foreign-focused surveillance are forthcoming – something that US legislators have balked at, despite months of wide-ranging leaks from Snowden.
Participants provided 10 20 ml of freshly voided early morning urine in clean, wide-mouthed, leak-proof containers.
Participants provided 10 20 ml freshly voided early morning urine in clean, wide mouth and leak proof containers.
And what is the wider significance of the leak?
Both emphasized that there had already been wide distribution, both through leaks and official disclosures, of information about C.I.A. interrogation practices during the Bush administration.
