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 Japans 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.
This is a key to an argument that is always false; “yet modern medicine does not seem concerned”.
Exactly... ..recently, at least.
Hundreds of yards UPHILL from the reactor stand ancient stone monuments. They were placed there centuries ago. Written in archaic weather beaten kanji are the words: "Tsunami warning. Nothing is to be built below this elevation."
Many Japanes coastal hillsides are dotted with "Tsunami Stones," hundreds of years old to both memorialize those killed and to serve as an admonition and warning not to build below a certain elevation.
Humans are vain, and we tend to disregard ancient wisdom simply because it is ancient, overlooking the fact that it is also wise.
And standing in the caldera of an erupting volcano is instantly fatal. What is the point?
No one is going there.
Fukishima is a man-made disaster. A volcano is a natural disaster. Both are no go zones.
Not true at all. They could have built the reactors higher up on the hillside. The problem with that was that they would have to have built expensive cooling towers on the hillside as well.
So now, we have a Pacific ocean that is dying. Lovely.Not to mention Tokyo, which is only 80 kilometers away. With friends like us, who needs enemies?
GE... We bring good things to life! (really death)
Yeah, like building back up generators on the ground where, if a tsunami did occur, they would be inundated and useless in 3 days. Nice. GE.
Power that would be too cheap to meter. Gotcha!
Atoms for peace!
And we have hundreds of these effin' things all over the world!
And no safe storage for spent fuel rods for ANY of them. Nice going.
Oh, now youre talking about plastic.
Stick to one subject.
No, I’m talking about radioactive isotopes. Plastic is another, different danger. Not the same. Try to pay attention.
I would stay out of it, then.
Thank you Laz! You took the words right outta my mouth and beat me to the post! ;o)
Looks like graph-ite.
I was contaminated by Chernobyl & survived. Only to become mortally ill due to drinking Pacific seawater.
Very sad.
No one expected the Spanish Inquisition, either.
I can say from what I have heard, the japanese were just apeing nuclear power operations, construction and maintenance.
They had very little knowledge of why things were done and built the way they were. Instead they relied on watching and doing what everyone else was doing.
IOW they were basically YouTube qualified to run nuclear power plants.. They were highly educated but had zero questioning attitude. a cultural STRONG cultural thing in japan. Y'all's get a warm fuzzy from that?
“Actually, I did. My ESP warned me of it...”
Any sense of the track results for the young filly “Rare Breed” in the sixth at Pimlico?
Well, you confused me when you started talking about the Pacific Ocean dying.
You do know how big the Pacific is dont you?
And all of the water discharged you Fukishima is processed so as to meet discharge permit requirements. Low activity.
It is costing a lot of money.
“The article also has some technical BS. “
The article has a lot of hype to scare along with the technical BS.
I used to work with someone who was sent to help with Fukushima cleanup. He was not pleased.
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