Soon as some freepers read that, expect name calling, poo pooing and comments of stop panicking.....
Let's see what Kevin Bacon has to say about it.
Posted on 03/17/2011 10:39:24 AM PDT by milwguy
I just asked, because 292 microsieverts an hour is not much at all. You might have your units wrong, you may want to double check.
And then someone comes on and tries to preempt discussion by predicting it.
Your moral superiority is amusing.
You really need to consider decaf.
Reactor 1's primary containment is believed to be intact and the reactor is in a stable condition. Seawater injection into the reactor is continuing.
Reactor 2 is in stable condition with seawater injection continuing. The reactor's primary containment may not have been breached, Tokyo Electric Power Co. and World Association of Nuclear Operators officials said on Thursday.
Reactor 3 is in stable condition with seawater injection continuing. The primary containment is believed to be intact. Pressure in the containment has fluctuated due to venting of the reactor containment structure.
Reactor 4 did not have fuel rods in it during the earthquake and tsunami.
Reactors 5 and 6 were both shut down before the quake occurred.
The real concern left now is the spent fuel cooling pool on unit number 4. The concrete wall of the reactor 4 fuel pool structure has collapsed, the steel liner of the pool remains intact, based on aerial photos of the reactor taken on March 17. The pool still has water providing some cooling for the fuel; however, helicopters dropped water on the reactor four times during the morning (Japan time) on March 17. Water also was sprayed at reactor 4 using high-pressure water cannons.
If you want to compare it to Chernobyl, you ought to learn a bit more about Chernobyl since it was a Graphite moderated reactor that caught fire and release quite a bit of radiation.
Wasn’t there some dire prediction that Tampa and St. Pete would be completely underwater because of something underground that was going to pop and then flood the region...tsunami-like..
I believe you...not the MSM, Nuclear Reg Committee, or any “experts” from any government.
Whre did you plug in your computer?
So it has reduced by an order of magnitude or two? Good.
You really need to get informed about plutonium it’s in EVERY reactor....Japan and the world, are number one less than the Chernobyl incident, on the nucclear scale of 1-7. Seven being Chernobly. Japan’s disaster is rated 6, so far....that’s one number under.
Face reality.
In the meantime you want people to believe there will ‘be no harm’..yeah right.
Decaf? Why you’re the one behaving freaky.
LOL...everything was good until they put that guy in charge who has been posting in another thread about bombing the reactors to keep them from going up...he thought that bombing them would disperse the fuel...:)
Last I heard, I was trying to get the codes to call in some nuclear tipped cruise missiles!
True. And it has been for decades. Your point???
Japan and the world are number one less than the Chernobyl incident
The whole country of Japan and the whole world are major nuclear accident?
“The situation is actually 10 million times worse than this. At least”
It’s actually eleventity point 53 gabillion times worse!!
Where do you guys come up with this baloney?
Soon as some freepers read that, expect name calling, poo pooing and comments of stop panicking.....
Let's see what Kevin Bacon has to say about it.
When in fear,
when in doubt,
run in circles,
scream and shout.
That means about .3 sievert per hour and I think the annual dose is allowed to be 50 sievert for a nuclear worker. Higher than you would like, sure, time to wet our panties, not yet.
So a worker for TEPCO can stay there for less than an hour and then have to leave the site because they say max exposure is 250 microsieverts. The measurement was taken at the WEST entrance. The wind is blowing out to sea, or west to east. Funny they are not reporting readings from the buildings or very close by. Wonder why? Probably because the readings are in the thousands of microsieverts, not the hundreds
I agree the absolute but unlikely worst case is going to cause some local problems, but this absolute world panic many are displaying are ignorant of history.
You have the units wrong. It is 250 millisieverts or 250,000 microsieverts.
Whatever you do, don’t tell them about the massive comet that is speeding directly at the Earth. We’ll never hear the end of it.
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