[ransomnote]

I excerpted the lower part of the article because the upper part has Japanese characters in a memo and then the English translation of the text interspersed and I have yet to test the ability of FR to host Japanese characters.

[Palladin]

“human workers” = human guinea pigs.

[justa-hairyape]

Dilution is their solution apparently.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The amazing thing is how not even the major left-leaning media outlets seem to have any idea about all these things you keep claiming are happening in Japan.

It’s like there’s an entire alternative Japan reality where the buildings are all falling over, nuclear fuel rods are jumping out of their spent fuel pools, and reactors have double-doors that are propped open to “let all the radiation out”.

This one was good for a laugh though, what with the pseudo-science of “they opened the doors at NIGHT, because it was even COOLER outside and it meant even MORE hot air would flow out with radiation”.

Because, as we all know, a 110-degree temperature difference will create a much larger updraft than a 100-degree temperature difference.

And it’s not like they could have just propped the doors open for an extra couple of minutes.

Meanwhile, in the REAL world, they have radiation monitors all around that plant, and they are monitoring the air above and for miles around in all directions, and the radiation levels are dropping. And yet somehow we are supposed to believe that there is this huge radiation release, and not one detector caught it.

Most of these stories are so ludicrous that I feel silly even PRETENDING that they should be taken at all seriously. Which is probably why none of the serious posters following this disaster has bothered to wander into these threads.

Maybe I should just slowly back away now, out the door, and leave you all in peace. All is well, all is well, ....

[CharlesWayneCT]

Oh, here's a real article about the real world where the real double doors were not yet opened:

CORRECT: Workers Enter Fukushima Reactor For 1st Time Since Crisis

Tepco expects the air-cleaning operation could help lower radiation to one-twentieth of pre-ventilation duct levels within two to three days.

"It is necessary to confirm a decline in the radiation level before any decision to open the double-entry doors" that block external and internal access to the reactor building, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, spokesman and deputy director general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

They are installing air ventilation equipment to filter out the radioactive particles. The workers could spend 10 minutes in the facility, and recieved about 2.8 millisevierts of radiation during that 10 minutes.

[Tijeras_Slim]

In other words 40 millicuries. It’s all about the units used.