A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern Japan on March 11, triggering tsunamis that caused widespread devastation and crippled a nuclear power plant. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on the quake's aftermath and check out our interactive explainer on Japan's damaged nuclear reactors.
[5:30 a.m. ET Saturday, 6:41 p.m. Saturday in Tokyo] An official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, apologized Saturday and said the exposure of three workers to highly radioactive water could have been avoided with better communication.
Hideyuki Koyama said tests of water found in the basement of the No. 1 reactor's turbine building on March 18 showed high levels of radiation.
That fact - and a general sense that water accumulating in turbine and others buildings around the plant may be dangerously radioactive - did not appear to resonate on March 24 during an operation in the No. 3 reactor's turbine building. On that date, three workers were exposed to between 173 and 181 millisieverts of radiation, including two with direct exposure on their skin, while laying cable.
Koyama said that radiation alarms went off while the men were working, but they continued with their mission for between 40 and 50 minutes assuming it was a false alarm.
[1:55 a.m. ET Saturday, 2:55 p.m. Saturday in Tokyo] Airborne radiation levels continue to fall outside the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, though concerns remain about potentially ominous breaches in reactor cores after water showed alarming radiation levels in tests at two locales.
An official with the Tokyo Electric Power Co. - which operates the facility - told reporters Saturday that water samples from the turbine buildings for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors similarly found high levels of radiation.
Finally!
ok, got ya another friend to my check list, did u read that post on Martin luther king , Jazz seems like a hard worker and hot like a good women , and no not devorced just lost her before i could ask , gotta go talk later buddy
Lost about 5 posts! Sigh. Ok. So we all kissand make up and have chocolate? 🙂
cant buddy trying to lose this gutt , but a nice tall cold beer would surfice
I didnt know there was a friends list!
@herbert.. i like orange sherbert..
if i ever paint my car it's going to be orange sherbert colored..
Blue is for boys ,a nice sky blue
I like lime sherbert.
vanilla something cant remember at the moment
Me? Lol dont think lve been called buddy before. Have a beer!
are u a women or a man ?
Woman!
Opps then dont read the post below below , just intringed with her , Jazz I mean , she sounds very passionit
they say you can tell alot about a person my how many friends he has , but I think it's about if you have a few close friends , why wont anybody tell me about Jazz ?
hey i been doing an experiment.. i buttered up 5 pieces of toast.. then i fliiped them up in the air.. all 5 landed butter side down... why is this?
i think that if the ja-pansese spread butter all over the reactor that it might keep the radioactive stuff trapped inside..
Ur crazy how do u think these things up, ur making me procrastinate on my walk. I will blog later and come up with a few of my own for u , around 5pm say , gotta a lot to do today , later and on the same blog , so long everyone , Bye Jazz ":)
Ugh!
Posting today sucks!
some post toasties would be good right about now..
Welcome back kotter...where hae you been?