Is this the same new fire, or a different new fire?
Here’s Toyko Electric Power’s press release link;
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/
I don’t see anything about a new fire.
Wow, that whole area is gonna melt.
They need to number each fire so we know if it’s a new one or not.
Typical General Electric engineering. Riddled with fraud.
“Reuters: “Breaking news from NHK, quoting Tokyo Electric Power: Fire breaks out at Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 reactor...
NHK analyst says it looks like another hydrogen explosion/fire. Flames now rising from reactor. Cause not yet known (or disclosed).”
I dont’ want to downplay the seriousness of the situation but I just can’t help but remember all the panicked, sky-falling, inaccurate, emotional news segments that came during Hurricane Katrina.
It just seems to me that if there was anything that bad (meaning worse than an explosion at a chemical plant or coal power plant) going on we would be seeing media footage of buildings aflame and blackened radiation bagdes.
Completely unscientific method here but my gut has been pretty good to me in the past.
This is a NEW fire in reactor 4, folks...
“Around 5:45 a.m., a worker at the plant saw flames on the fourth floor of the reactor’s building, believed to be the same spot where an apparent hydrogen explosion caused a fire Tuesday morning in the wake of last Friday’s magnitude 9.0 earthquake.” - Kyodo reporting: english.kyodonews.jp
From Reuters again (March 15, 2011, 7:20 PM) :
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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IAEA to send experts for environment monitoring to Japan soon...
IAEA isn’t even in Japan, yet...
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