Posted on 09/03/2013 7:34:05 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
1 September 2013 Last updated at 09:09 GMT
Fukushima radiation levels '18 times higher' than thought
Radiation levels around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned.
Last week the plant's operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground.
It now says readings taken near the leaking tank on Saturday showed radiation was high enough to prove lethal within four hours of exposure.
The plant was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) had originally said the radiation emitted by the leaking water was around 100 millisieverts an hour.
However, the company said the equipment used to make that recording could only read measurements of up to 100 millisieverts.
The new recording, using a more sensitive device, showed a level of 1,800 millisieverts an hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
P!
Japans backwash is all headed to the Seattle WA region.
Just through some ice on it.
Hmm. They could’ve asked me.
Nuclear power plants are insane. There is just not a good enough stopgap in a disaster.
Oil, hydro, solar, coal, wind, fracking, whatever and however much you want.
But nukes are just nuts.
Thanks for the ping.
So does “18 times higher” mean 1800% higher or is my primitive math understanding even worse than I thought?
And corruption and cover up like what we’ve seen with this is the plan. And it just doesn’t work.
lol
Actually I absorbed during the first few months of Fuku Nuku reading that nuke bombs are actually safer in the long run than nuke power plants. Setting off nuke bombs can certainly kill a lot of people in a short amount of time but they don’t cause as much long term deadly radioactive landmass etc.
Unreal.
What are the implications? And I mean the real ones - not the hysterical predictions, and not the “head in the sand” ones either. Does anyone actually have a clue what this means for Japan, the Pacific, the USA??
They are nuts.
And to build one on a fault line in the potential path of a tsunami is completely reckless.
Arrogant.
The Japs dump this info while everyone in the world is distracted by Syria.
Considering that there have been over 2000 nuclear bombs shot off on land and sea all over the world, why doesn't California and the Pacific Ocean glow in the dark ?
Just watch this (about 20 minutes long). About halfway through, the bombs going off are like the popcorn maker at the movie theatre.
Well it will take nonstop human intervention and tens of billions of dollars for the next few thousand years. Either that or the Pacific Ocean will be poisoned.
I wonder if this has anything to do with cancer?
from the article: “. .However, the company said the equipment used to make that recording could only . . .”
They do not plan for disaster.
The beginning of the article says they are warning about the levels.
Warning, like, what? Like everybody move to a different country, but it’s too late? Warning people on the Pacific rim?
The Long Islanders took a ton of heat when they warned the power company to get their stupid ideas of building one of these things on the East End.
They warned the engineers that evacuation was a hundred times more impossible than getting from Huntington to New Hyde Park on Thanksgiving Day, which is no quick task.
That’s the kind of warning that works.
The article doesn’t give enough information to tell:
That amount of radiation coming from a very small mass would be insignificant, coming from a very large one it would be terrible.
FWIW it sounds to me like it’s coming from a small mass, but with this information one can only guess.
I'm not sure that the water itself becomes radioactive at all. Maybe it does, but things don't necessarily become radioactive just by being irradiated. Meat products, for example, that are irradiated to kill pathogens, do not become radioactive. But in any case I would think that the dilution of water in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean would render almost any amount of radiation meaningless, if it we there.
This is going well.
Let’s invade Japan. They’re nuking their own people.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.