Posted on 03/17/2011 10:39:24 AM PDT by milwguy
OK folks, here’s the facts:
With concurrence of the US Government, Obama’s birth certificate is being dropped on the damaged reactors. This will ensure nothing in the area sees the light of day for at least 100 years.
But wait! Even as we speak, the Man of Steel is circling the Globe, faster and faster....
Using the millirem scale, look at the following readings:
4 am 3/16/11 — 75 millirems per hour
4 pm 3/16/11 — 34 millirems per hour
~1 pm 3/17/11 — 2~3 millirem per hour
I should have given some perspective for that scale.
As context, radiation levels in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident were 1 millirem per year in the United States and in Canada. By comparison, each person receives the same radiation dose from watching television over a year’s time. Among countries neighboring the site of the Chernobyl accident, Bulgaria received the highest radiation dose at 76 millirem per year, followed by Austria at 68 millirem per year, Greece at 59 millirem per year, and Finland at 45. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual public radiation limit is 100 millirem.
You need to make sure you have the proper perspective. As a Radiation worker, I was allowed 5,000 mrem per year or 5 rads (or 50 millisieverts) cumulative dose to my total body. I wore dosimeters on my hands (which could receive 50,000 mrem per year) chest and waist. These were measured monthly.
(From the NRC) “Above background levels of radiation exposure, the NRC requires that its licensees limit maximum radiation exposure to individual members of the public to 100 mrem (1mSv) per year, and limit occupational radiation exposure to adults working with radioactive material to 5,000 mrem (50 mSv) per year. NRC regulations and radiation exposure limits are contained in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 20.”
So, you can see, 292 microsieverts is not really much when you consider you are allowed to get 50,000 microsieverts in a year. I am not saying it is healthy, but it isn’t going to fry you, either.
What does those questions do, except deflect away from the post???
What do you seriously believe?
I haven’t yet said what I believe, I have said what has been reported, I have repeated other articles, And I have been scoriated, called names, insulted and even threatened to be shot...FreeRepublic...hmmm
The spent fuel pool in Reactor 4 is the main worry. If heat doesn’t get lowered in that pool, there will be problems. Otherwise, all of them are going to be shut down cold in a week.
Yeah and remember the safe number was 100, til they upped it the other day to 250...
Water spray cools down spent fuel pool at Fukushima, but radiation levels stay same
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2690369/posts
Yes thank you.
Nuke the entire crippled site with a 15 MT Warhead fired from an SSBN. Repeat 2 times. Problem vaporized. Fight fire with fire.
You are correct, I just caught my multiple errors, only off by a factor of 1,000.
I was trying to gain perspective. Feel free to ignore them, they are not important.
What do you seriously believe?
That the panic and fear-mongering near insanity. It reminds me of those of Free Republic claiming during the Gulf Oil Spill that 1/3 of all the world's Marine life would die in 6 months.
I believe the were right to evacuate the surrounding area. I believe that some of the workers fighting the problems on site are going to have some levels of radiation poisoning. I believe even in the very worst scenario it will be problem with a much smaller impact in area than Chernobyl and certainly faster "healing" of the impact as there is no graphite fire spewing large particles into the air.
[They just admitted radiation level at ENTRANCE to the facility is 292 microsiverts per hour]
[!!!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. !!!]
Let me try this again.
That means about .0003 sievert per hour and I think the annual dose is allowed to be .050 sievert for a nuclear worker. Higher than you would like, sure, time to wet our panties, not yet. Or about .006 of a years dose.
In short, LET THE PANIC BEGIN!
So you know what you believe.
but your not o.k. with what other’s believe or what you perceive they believe, or you just don’t like when you think someone might be disagreeing?
Near building 3 reactor reading has been as high as 8912 microsieverts per hour. TEPCO uses the reading by the west entrance because it is probably lowest on their property due to prevailing winds.
Yeah, but no one here in St. Pete evacuated on that rumor - which is some indication of how seriously we took it - - a few years ago we routinely evacuated for hurricanes. We know how to leave in this area. To use one as an example of the other is disingenuous... they are not the same.This situation needs to stand on it's own - I have not seen one example of anyone panicking. It's just not happening.
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