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New Probe Finds Fatal Radiation Levels at Fukushima Reactor
Design Daily ^
| Tuesday, March 27, 2012
| AP
Posted on 03/27/2012 8:36:05 AM PDT by palmer
Edited on 03/27/2012 8:50:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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TOKYO (AP) A new probe at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant has found fatal radiation levels and hardly any cooling water inside one of the reactors, renewing concerns about the plant's stability.[snip]
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Japan
KEYWORDS: fukushima; fukushimameltdown; meltdown; nuclear
Not over yet.
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:36:12 AM PDT
by
palmer
To: palmer
As long as they don’t expect international assistance when Godzilla shows up....
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:39:25 AM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(ABO! Go Newt!)
To: palmer
In this photo taken by an endoscope and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), a white thermometer, right, is seen through the surface of water in the Unit 2 reactor's primary containment vessel at the the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 26, 2012. TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear power plant, said the water level of the reactor container is only 60 centimeters (about 2 feet) from the bottom, indicating a large quantity of water injected to cool the melted fuel is leaking from the vessel. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:45:04 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
To: palmer
Did our President send all our government resources available and encourage our large construction companies, (Bechtel, Halliburton, etc), to help in this disaster right after it occurred?
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:46:30 AM PDT
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
To: palmer
The word this publik-skooled AP writer needs is “lethal”, not “fatal”.
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:48:52 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
To: Art in Idaho
It was over a year before anyone could enter the Three Mile Island buildings after its accident.
It took another 5 years to offload the damaged fuel.
Fukushima is undoubtedly in worse shape than TMI-2. But aside from another historical earthquake, there is no indication that there is any increase in the threat to the Japanese people.
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:51:32 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: kidd
Unlike Units 2 & 3, Unit 4 didn't erupt in a violent explosion(s) and is relatively intact so workers can approach for short periods of time without being totally irradiated. Anyway, TEPCO's guessing the amount of water covering the melted core was off by about 25'. This besides that some of the melted radioactive fuel is still shown in the Pressure Vessel and some has fallen below unto the floor of the Primary Containment. This leads to the question of how can cooling take place when the water level is so low that it leaves the upper portion of the melted fuel exposed? It is no wonder that gauge and sensor readings report high heat levels at the bottom of the Pressure Vessel when cooling water being constantly pumped in can only shower down as it passes by the upper areas falling to a water level shown in the picture. In other words, TEPCO couldn't flood to keep the melted fuel underwater at all times if they wanted to due to massive leaks. Besides any water that comes in contact with the melted fuel becomes radioactively contaminated.
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posted on
03/27/2012 9:32:01 AM PDT
by
Razzz42
(`)
To: palmer
The operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says an endoscopic examination Tuesday detected radiation levels up to 10 times the fatal dose inside the No. 2 reactor's contain chamber, suggesting challenges ahead in shutting down the facilityThis statement makes no sense without indicating for what period of time a human would have to be exposed to the radiation there in order to absorb a lethal dose.
One minute? One hour? One day? Six months? Any guesses?
Regards,
To: alexander_busek
From the next paragraph in a more complete AP report in the
Atlanta Urinal-Constipation:
"Particles from melted fuel have probably sent radiation levels up to dangerously high 70 sieverts per hour [7,000 rem/hr]"
This is approximately ten times the dose rate that probably would be lethal for most people exposed to it for 1 hour.
To: alexander_busek
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:04:33 AM PDT
by
Razzz42
(`)
To: palmer
Aww cmon now we all were told, very unkindly, how it’s no worse than a pilot flying an airplane.
Some were even threatened to be shot...unkindly so.
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:07:48 AM PDT
by
Freddd
(NoPA ngineers.)
To: palmer
One will also find fatal levels of radiation inside a normally functioning reactor.
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:10:13 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: steve86
Really Steve? I went to public school and am just fine.
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:10:27 AM PDT
by
Moleman
To: Cboldt
Yes, but I think this is the contaiment area surrounding the reactor core, normally would have non-radioactive water in it.
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:53:12 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
To: palmer
How many years can they dump water on this mess to keep it ‘cool’? Forever?
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:55:27 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
To: steve86
The word this publik-skooled AP writer needs is lethal, not fatal Our we losing our respect for the MSM Steve?
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posted on
03/27/2012 11:00:57 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
To: Razzz42
The reaction is over.
All that remains is decay heat.
Since it has already melted through the reactor vessel, there is no longer any need to add any more water.
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posted on
03/27/2012 11:30:33 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: Moleman; GOPJ
Yeah, so am I. Schools around here are still pretty good — especially with respect to traditional American values — but maybe not what they were 50 years ago. I had to correct my girl's science teacher on several points the other day, and sp misteaks in teachers’ comments are rampant. Other than that things could be a lot worse, though. I was encouraged to find out the fifth graders’ camp week will be infused with Christian! values — if not the word Christian — unlike the schools on the west side of our state that use pagan earth worship as a camp theme.
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posted on
03/27/2012 12:04:02 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
To: kidd
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posted on
03/27/2012 6:27:26 PM PDT
by
Razzz42
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