Japan radiation leaking "directly" into air: IAEA

Reuters ^ | 3/15/2011 | Fredrik Dahl

[Sprite518]

Japan has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog radioactivity was being released "directly" into the atmosphere from the site of an earthquake-stricken reactor and that it had put out a fire at a spent fuel storage pond there.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Read that yesterday. Amazing how angry it’s making people. They’re ready to lynch the man over on ZeroHedge. Guess it’s not apocalyptic enough for them.

The rule seems to be, all information suggesting the worst is absolute truth. Any information that suggests it’s not completely cataclysmic is government/GE/Exelon propaganda.

[1010RD]

This may help to reduce the hysteria. It is the official news release of TEPCO.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2689299/posts

[COBOL2Java]

I sure wish these talking heads would do a little research! Even on FandF this morning, they were practically hysterical!

That's what they're hired for. Ted Baxter is the patron saint of newspeople.

[COBOL2Java]

I sure wish these talking heads would do a little research! Even on FandF this morning, they were practically hysterical!

That's what they're hired for. Ted Baxter is the patron saint of newspeople.

[Rebelbase]

“the official news release of TEPCO.”

And, they have no reason to lie.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Radiation doesn’t leak, contamination does.

[JadeEmperor]

"Someone in Tokyo posted a live feed of their Geiger Counter on U Stream. The level has consistently registered around 29cpm all day. The same reading you’d find in Northern New Jersey. In Denver, the average reading is over 50cpm."

A Geiger counter ain't going to detect dangerous surface contam with most radionuclides, and very unlikely to detect dangeous levels of Pu244

[yup2394871293]

Weesa all gonna die.

[Candor7]

Time to start burying this crapper and pouring concrete mixed with graphite over it.They need to git ‘er done.Put the heavy equiment operators in rad suits with indepedent oxygen supply and line their cabs with lead, GIT ‘ER DONE!

[SandRat]

OK IAEA, .... Now where’s the Effective Downwind message (NBC-2) and the Effective Downwind Contamination Overlay? What’s the Yield Size? The Radiation count for the Contamination Overlay Zone? If you aren’t providing that you’re only sowing panic.

[de.rm]

"I don'know nuthin'bout birthin' babies!"

[SeekAndFind]

From Reuters again :

Radiation poses only slight risk to nervous Tokyo: U.S. experts

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-japan-quake-health-idUSTRE72E9DL20110315

EXCERPT

Dozens of workers battling to control radiation at Japan’s stricken reactors face a far greater risk of developing cancer than normal, but Tokyo residents are within the safe range for exposure, U.S. nuclear experts said.

Radiation levels in Tokyo, one of the world’s most populous cities, rose 10 times above average Tuesday evening, spreading fear among many of the 33 million residents in the metropolitan area.

The best advice experts could give them was to stay indoors, close the windows and avoid breathing bad air — steps very similar to those for handling a smog alert or avoiding influenza.

While these steps may sound inconsequential, experts said the danger in Tokyo, while worrisome, is slight - at least for now.

“Everything I’ve seen so far suggests there have been nominal amounts of material released. Therefore, the risks are generally low to the population,” Jerrold Bushberg, who directs programs in health physics at the University of California at Davis, said in a telephone interview.

“There may be more significant risks for emergency workers on site. They are dealing with the occupational exposure, but not for the population at large.”

Fresh explosions Tuesday at the Fukushima plant, 180 miles north of Tokyo, released low levels of radiation, escalating a crisis triggered by last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami. With cooling systems knocked out, the fear is more blasts within the reactors at the complex could eventually cause a major radiation leak.

The levels measured around Tokyo at one point were 40 times above normal but have receded to 10 times. That amounts to roughly the same dose as a chest or abdominal CT scan.

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[mvpel]

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110315-703984.html

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Cosmo Oil Co. (5007.TO) said Tuesday that fire-fighting operations are continuing at its Chiba refinery near Tokyo.

Cosmo Oil Co. has shut its 220,000-barrel-a-day Chiba refinery after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an accompanying tsunami hit Japan Friday.

The company had said Monday that the fire at the plant was getting smaller but hadn't been extinguished as of 1000 GMT Monday.

A Cosmo Oil spokesman said Tuesday there has been no change in the refinery's status.

Meanwhile, JX Nippon Oil, a unit of JX Holdings Co. (5020.TO), said a fire at its 145,000-barrel-a-day Sendai refinery in northern Japan has been extinguished.

[eak3]

yeah theres a lot of people on here who think none of whats going on is a big deal. Im sorry but if radiation is leaking anywhere and theres reactors blowing up left and right. THERES A BIG PROBLEM!!

[Marty62]

Just fearmongering by the Whoreish media.

They can’t stand the fact that the Japanese People aren’t running around with their hair on fire looting and pilaging.

The question should be how are the engineers that are IN the plant doing. If it were as earth ending as the scaremongers are saying then the engineers should be DEAD.

[JohnKinAK]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

[AndyJackson]

The quote is wrong, the measured dose was 400 millisievert, Not 400 microsievert.

There has been a lot of flip-flopping millisievert vs microsevert, and I doubt anyone reporting it has any idea of the difference. One is measurable and a concern, but not a disaster. 400 Millisievert is a disaster. People cannot do their jobs in that level of radiation. They will begin to fell health effects after 15 minutes of exposure.

I have to condemn the Japanese authorities for not properly reporting this. Surveys are done all over the place and they know those numbers. Just report them. Report them accurately. Send them to the nuclear engineering faculty at MIT and get them to report accurately . it is not hard.

[AndyJackson]

My son informs me that at his school, which has a highly reputable engineering department they use m to abbreviate micro as "m" instead of "μ." such is the ignorance of modern America.

[webheart]

I’m sure the Obama administration will monitor the situation so that there will be no price gouging.

[webheart]

I’m sure the Obama administration will monitor the situation so that there will be no price gouging.