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I can vouch for that.
Posted on 08/22/2019 7:52:17 PM PDT by Windflier
At the levels of radiation now being found a Fukushima, a robot would be able to operate for less than two hours before it was destroyed. And Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences said medical professionals had never even thought about encountering this level of radiation in their work.
The accident is enormous in its medical implications. Through future years, too long to contemplate, we will witness an epidemic of cancer as people inhale the radioactive elements, eat radioactive vegetables, rice and meat, and drink radioactive milk and teas. Year by year, decade through relentless decade, the radiation will build up yet modern medicine does not seem concerned.
New readings at Fukushima have recorded the highest radiation levels seen since the triple core meltdown that occurred in 2011. Readings inside the containment vessel of reactor no. 2 are as high as 530 Sieverts per hour, a dosage that would be fatal dozens and dozens of times over if a human were to be exposed to it. The previous high was a still very fatal rate of 73 Sieverts per hour.
The blazing radiation reading was taken near the entrance to the space just below the pressure vessel, which contains the reactor core. The highest radiation levels ever measured at Chernobyl were 300 Sieverts per hour; an incomprehensibly high dose which can kill a man almost instantly.
The new record at Fukushima of 530 Sieverts per hour is 70% higher than that of Chernobyl. The 530 Sievert reading was recorded some distance from the melted fuel, so in reality it could be 10 times higher than recorded, said Hideyuki Ban, co-director of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center.
To put this in perspective, radiation is usually measured in thousandths of a Sievert, called millisieverts. For example, most people receive around 2.4 millisieverts per year from background radiation, or only 0.0002739726 per hour.
According to the Kyodo news agency, the institute estimates that exposure to one Sievert of radiation could lead to infertility, loss of hair and cataracts. One Sievert is enough to cause radiation sickness and nausea; 5 Sieverts would kill half those exposed to it within a month, and a single dose of 10 Sieverts would prove fatal within weeks.
Gee whiz, that’s just a premonition not to sleep with the gal at the bar who has an STD.
Energy level of matters. Ironically, lower energy causes more DNA damage than higher energy. Likened to high speed bullet passing through body as opposed to low speed bullet bouncing around off ribs and crossing through DNA more times - more damage.
That’s the key flaw in the dosimetry equations used by energy industry - it ignores whether you are calculating for bananas or uranium. There’s a significant medical difference, but their calculations don’t factor that in so I’ve seen calculations for bananas compared with radiation exposure.
Anyone can buy as many bananas as they want - but try to buy a few grams of radioactive Uranium and there’s a “problem.”
LOL, Laz! Are you having fun, yet?
50K Scoville? I’ve survived over 1,000,000 — and, enjoy 500,000 routinely...
TXnMA ‘-)
I was curious about GreenMedInfo and ran a quick search to find mentions of it on these pages.
https://hatepseudoscience.com/tag/greenmedinfo/
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/tag/sayer-ji/
I used to have dreams (recurring) on all sorts of missles coming in through the sky. Very vivid stuff. Now all I get is mundane stuff.
The other night I had a dream that I put on a shirt out of the closet, and two different socks were static-clinged inside the sleeve. The following day I grabbed a shirt out of the clean clothes basket. Two socks (same pair though) fell out when I shook the shirt out!
Stupid things like that happen ALL the time. Makes me think we might have 100 dreams a night of various stuff, and then when it happens in real life it jogs our memory?
Although I have had a few dreams, complex and long that have come true.
As a child I had a recurring nightmare - VERY real and very scary. It always ended just as the worst was going to happen. One day the dream didn’t stop. I expected the worst, but instead, figured out a way to escape - and did!
I never had that nightmare again!
Depends on which “conventional system”. Are we speaking as doctors or workers?
Gray and rems are used to describe exposure to persons when studying the dead and dying. MDs and physicists PhD types.
Exposure through standard work exposure still use the relatively new adopted measurement Sieverts and millisieverts and more commonly used measurements for industrial radiation workers are still allowed 5 R per year, every year and no upper nor maximum limit for one’s lifetime. There are documented cases of workers receiving chronic exposure to levels approaching what was long figured lethal doses with no 1st nor 2nd generation anomalies.
Wiki has a breakdown :
“Although the International System of Units (SI) defines the sievert (Sv) as the unit of radiation dose equivalent, chronic radiation levels and standards are still often given in units of millirems (mrem), where 1 mrem equals 1/1000 of a rem and 1 rem equals 0.01 Sv. Light radiation sickness begins at about 50–100 rad (0.5–1 gray (Gy), 0.5–1 Sv, 50–100 rem, 50,000–100,000 mrem).”
The irony that the standard units of measurement were changed from Curies to Becquerel, and from Roentgen to Sieverts.
The world couldn’t stand having the tradition radiation units named after a Polish/French woman and a German man, so they had to change them to Swedish man and a Swiss man.
Goes to show how little re: high level radiation exposures the world’s MDs really have data from. Public info is pretty slim, less than a few dozen.....
I was thinking maybe the radiation generates heat - but from the following post found on Reddit it is more just the energy it sounds like. Obviously I don’t know anything, but what the random poster stated sounds like it makes sense:
“Strong radiation does a number on electronics. The particles have enough energy that if they impact molecules in a semiconductor, they ionize the material (liberate electrons from their parent atoms). This can cause a variety of effects.
At low levels, it causes “soft errors”. The sudden liberation of charged particles causes circuits to misbehave and interpret what should be a digital “0” as a “1” (or vice versa). This can cause temporary misbehavior, or flip bits in memory.
At more extreme levels, it can damage thin insulators (and their interfaces with the semiconductor) and cause permanent paths of electrical “leakage” (current flows where it shouldn’t). These “hard errors” can render circuits inoperative.
It is somewhat possible to mitigate these issues, but if the radiation is really strong, it’s almost impossible to do with something small like a robot. They simply can’t carry the amount of shielding that would be required.
At really, really strong radiation levels, the bonds in metals can be damaged, causing the metal to become brittle and weaker than it should be.”
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By the way, the article keeps talking about the effects on humans with these huge numbers below the containment floor or what have you. Pretty meaningless, seeing as no human is ever going to go in there!
Well yes they could. There are lines on the hills where water came up to from past tsunami. There was a mayor? who had a wall built against the advice of others to protect the town. It blocked the view of the ocean. He passed away many years before the tsunami. It protected most of the town even though it was not high enough.
#45 I am going to dream tonight of pretty blondes and brunettes women with low standards who want to hang out with me fishing. I hope the dream comes true!
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I can vouch for that.
Wasn’t the reactor also supposed to have been retired 20 years prior, but kept on because of their own environmentalists preventing replacement?
Its not just us Thespians who masticate... Lutherans masticate as a group after church.
Actually it could and was. This happened on the Sanriku Coast, notorious in Japan for really big tsunamis. Near offshore plate slippage is chronic here. In the last two centuries there have been ten such incidents , the previous last in 1950, I think. This was a terrible place to put a large nuclear power plant in light of the known seismic history of the place.
Several decades ago there was a problem detected with higher density ram chips. Apparently there were trace amounts of radioactive materials in the packaging of the integrated circuits and the emissions were sufficient to cause soft errors in the memory.
I do recall that there was a time when some thought that we might have reached some practical limit to memory densities. We know now that the limit is still some way off a quarter of a century later.
Yup. And their lengthy historical records of tsunamis included reports of some twice as high as what hit Fukashima. Realistically they SHOULD have predicted the possibility of this. If they'd just sited their backup generators and power lines better they probably could maintained coolant power and prevented the meltdown. Had they retrofitted the reactor buildings to vent hydrogen gas, as American reactors of the same basic design already had, they wouldn't have had a hydrogen explosion blow out one of their reactor buildings to complicate things further.
No rush.
But building a nuclear plant so close to the “Ring of Fire.?” Wouldn’t that in itself send up warning flags?
Bunch of overhyped nonsense.
Just look at that nuclear waste land 70 years after Hiroshima. Guess that beautiful most modern city of over a million is all a hoax right? Hiroshima looks pretty nice for being uninhabitable for millions of years.
Why not? I could have foreseen it.
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