Posted on 03/21/2011 7:51:21 PM PDT by philomath
Radiation 1,600 times higher than normal levels has been detected in an area about 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, International Atomic Energy Agency officials said Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.kyodonews.jp ...
Please, some of you nuke engineer guys chime in here.
That’s extremely high at 10 miles. Was it a local reading or a reading around the area? Measurement fluke? Lousy reporting?
This sounds really off. Unless someone is carrying around radioactive chunks and dropping them... I just don’t see how.
I predicted major fallout as soon as the first core melted down.
They are not evacuating a large enough area, but I can see why. Where would a million people go? Housing has always been extremely tight in Japan.
They will all just have to wait 20 or 30 years to see if they get cancer. :(
Well, they did evacuate all persons within a 20 km radius of the plant in the first day or two after the event, didn’t they?
I have the same questions; this was an IAEA team per Kyodo News, so I hope the team confirmed before reporting, and Kyodo News fact checked it.
About the same as an airport x-ray?
So the problem is a million billion times worse than we ever expected. Got it!
Seeing smoke rising from reactor number 2 is not a good thing. If containment has been even partially lost to that reactor, it is a very bad thing. Reactor 2 is the only one fueled by MOX fuel, which uses plutonium salvaged from obsolete warheads combined with the usual uranium. IF Number 2 goes into meltdown, it will not only create much higher temps (due to the MOX fuel), but will also spew more dangerous raioactive isotopes into the atmosphere than the other reactors or spent fuel rod pools.
Today they evacuated because of #2 smoking. Not good.
So...that’d be like eating 60 tsp of peanut butter, or smoking 3 cigarettes? Or one tenth of the radiation you’d get on an international flight?
That’s what I was looking for!
GSP.FAN: First your fur, then the sky....
Just when you think it’s stabilized it gets much worse.
Those numbers seem too high at 20 klicks, need confirmation on that imo.
Incorrect. Reactor 3 has the MOX fuel.
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