High radiation detected at Japan's Fukushima plant(I-134:2.9B; Cesium-134,137: 2.3M)

IBN ^ | 03/27/11

[TigerLikesRooster]

High radiation detected at Japan's Fukushima plant

Press Trust Of India

Posted on Mar 27, 2011 at 12:25pm IST

Fukushima: Japanese authorities on Sunday detected radioactivity 10 million times higher than normal in water in one of the six reactors at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant forcing evacuation of workers, as the government warned that the crisis was far from over.

The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), said the radioactive materials tested 10 million times more than the usual level in water at the No.2 reactor complex, over two weeks after the devastating magnitude-9 quake and tsunami struck Japan's northeast leaving more than 27,000 people dead or unaccounted for.

TEPCO said it measured 2.9-billion becquerels of radiation per cubic cm of water from the basement of the turbine building attached to the Number 2 reactor, national broadcaster NHK reported.

The level of contamination is about 1,000 times that of the leaked water already found in the basements of the Number 1 and 3 reactor turbine buildings, it said.

TEPCO said the radioactive materials in water of the No.2 reactor included 2.9-billion becquerels of iodine-134, 13-million becquerels of iodine-131, and 2.3-million becquerels each for cesium 134 and 137. These substances are emitted during nuclear fission inside a reactor core.

[TigerLikesRooster]

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[Rocky]

Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
Rev 8:5 (NIV)

The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
Rev 8:8-9 (NIV)

More and more, it seems we are approaching apocalyptic events.

[justa-hairyape]

This Japan report includes a fairly long video describing the situation. They plan to pump the highly radioactive water (contains radioactive elements) to a large reservoir possibly in the turbine building. Gonna need a nuclear plumber.

Extreme radiation detected at No.2 reactor

[AmericanInTokyo]

But one could have said that [re: applied that Biblical verse] 25 years ago about Chernobyl, which was at least 1,000 times worse than Fukushima is (thank you US MSM!).... fact is, no man knows “when” and the world for 2,000 has seen upheavals far greater than this we are experiencing here in Japan. ;-)

[HiTech RedNeck]

If, worst case, all the reactor core leached out into the ocean, it wouldn’t be within orders of magnitude enough to poison a “third” of the globe’s water. Things would be pretty darn radioactive locally until it washed out to open ocean.

[Sooth2222]

"If, worst case, all the reactor core leached out into the ocean, it wouldn’t be within orders of magnitude enough to poison a “third” of the globe’s water. Things would be pretty darn radioactive locally until it washed out to open ocean."

There are nuclear reactors at the bottom of the ocean right now, and they have been there for years and decades as a result of nuclear submarine accidents. (Almost) nobody worries about dying from eating sushi.

[BushCountry]

During the development of the atomic bomb between 16 July 1945 and 23 September 1992 we conducted 1054 nuclear tests, and two nuclear attacks. Russia and other countries combined should account for at least as many tests. A lot of these tests were open air and some were Plutonium dispersal tests to see how far and fast radiation would spread. If this nuclear plant can cause all this worldwide panic, how did we survive literally hundreds of open air nuclear explosions and the intentional release of radioactive material?

[ronnie raygun]

One more crisis or generated crisis to scare the masses into the daddy governments arms.

[traderrob6]

If, worst case, the sun implodes tomorrow, we all die.

[Justa]

Well, the US-USSR went to underground testing due most in part to concerns about contamination.

There’s a cumulative effect. With a half life of 24000 years humanity will be dealing with Pu-239 contamination for a very long time. An extrapolation of Pu-239 contamination to date from either weapons or fuel accidents would probably make the planet un-inhabitable within one half life.

Accidents with spent fuel rods are of great concern due to their higher plutonium content.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“(Almost) nobody worries about dying from eating sushi. “

I worry and would die if I ate sushi. Sushi is awful; who wants to eat raw fish? Can’t those people afford beef?

[spiderpig]

Reported values make little sense...

I-134 has a half-life less than 1 hour. ~8 hours after stopping the fission process, this isotope would have decayed to zero activity (reactors all scrammed weeks ago now). There is no physical way for this to be present unless it is a radioactive daughter product of another fission product, which it is not.

[WOSG]

A followup report said this reading was wrong, and numbers are much much smaller.

False alarm.

[chimera]

It is part of a decay chain from 134Te, which is another fission product. That means the 134I concentration will increase for a time because of ingrowth from the 134Te decay. But it still may not be long enough to account for the concentrations, unless there was a very large initial amount of 134Te, for some reason.

[bvw]

The angels don’t calibrate geiger counters, nor vote in elections.

[chimera]

Probably close to a ton of plutonium was vaporized into the biosphere by weapons testing in the atmosphere. Last I checked, there was still life on Earth. Fuel rods are not vaporized like the core of a fission bomb is, nor are they dispersed into the biosphere. Whatever small amounts of plutonium there are in the Fukushima fuel assemblies probably isn't going very far, if anywhere.

[chimera]

The US alone conducted numerous underwater tests in the open ocean. Those included the famous Baker test (the big tall water column towering over the ships), and also WAHOO and WIGWAM. All of those tests released trillions of curies of activity (some of it plutonium, OH MY GAWD!) into the open ocean, unconfined, free to move wherever the currents drifted. The activity was diluted by natural processes to infinitesimally small concentrations. Last I checked, we were all still here, and there was abundant, perfectly edible (at least some things) sea life in the ocean

[BenKenobi]

Funny that. Glad to see we’ve got sensible reporting in this thread.

[Springfield Reformer]

FR thread concerning retraction of reporting error here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2695354/posts

Mistakes happen.