Radiation detected at a central control unit at Tokyo Electric Power Co's No.1 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi plant is not at a level that would require workers at the plant to evacuate, a trade ministry official said on Saturday.
The radiation at the control unit has risen to about 1,000 times the normal level, the official said..--Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori
The MSM is good at sensationalizing. Fear is a powerful tool.
Yes, this is tragic..BUT I have faith in Japan, as they are well aware they are in a high stress location, thus they build on their real estate accordingly. I am sure they know what they are doing with backups for backups. The Anti-nuke-energy crowd will play off this and are.
"The United States has transported coolant to a Japanese nuclear plant affected by a massive earthquake and will continue to assist Japan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. "We just had our Air Force assets in Japan transport some really important coolant to one of the nuclear plants," Clinton said at a meeting of the President's Export Council.
"You know Japan is very reliant on nuclear power and they have very high engineering standards but one of their plants came under a lot of stress with the earthquake and didn't have enough coolant," Clinton said
FYI, Hillary lied about the coolant. Link on Drudge has the Air Force saying they didn’t ship any coolant, or anything else. But they are willing to help however needed.
I hope this is a repeat of the hysteria over Cassini’s one in a million chance of reentry during the flyby. People were having kittens. My dad built the the thing and described the containment on the propulsion system. It was pure fearmongering.
If the normal level is essentially zero, then 1000X normal could still be close to zero and safe. It’s also a question of where in the plant the radiation is 1000X normal...hopefully not where people are working.
Thank you for posting real information.
There is too speculated panic in these threads.