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Japan live blog: Radiation levels spike near damaged nuclear plant
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[9:16 a.m. ET Sunday, 10:17 p.m. Sunday in Tokyo] Tokyo Electric says it is re-checking its results for a form of radioactive iodine in water from the No. 2 reactor's turbine building at Fukushima Daiichi after Japan's nuclear safety agency questioned extremely high figures released earlier Sunday.
[1:30 a.m. ET Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Tokyo] Radiation levels in pooled water tested in the No. 2 nuclear reactor's turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are 10 million times normal, a power company official said Sunday. Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency reports the surface water showed 1,000 millisieverts of radiation. By comparison, an individual in a developed country is naturally exposed to 3 millisieverts per year, though Japan's health ministry has set a 250 millisievert per year cumulative limit before workers must leave the plant. One person was working in and around the No. 2 reactor when the test result became known, according to an official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant. That individual subsequently left, and work there has stopped until the government signs off on the power company's plan to address the issue.
The process to start removing pooled water from that building had been set for late Sunday morning, Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear safety agency, previously told reporters.
[1 a.m. ET Sunday, 2Â p.m. Sunday in Tokyo] Radiation levels in pooled water tested in the No. 2 nuclear reactor's turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are 10 million times normal, a power company official said Sunday.
Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency reports the surface water showed 1,000 millisieverts of radiation. By comparison, an individual in a developed country is naturally exposed to 3 millisieverts per year, though Japan's health ministry has set a 250 millisievert per year cumulative limit before workers must leave the plant.
One person was working in and around the No. 2 reactor when the test result became known, according to an official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant. That individual subsequently left, and work there has stopped until the government signs off on the power company's plan to address the issue.
The process to start removing pooled water from that building had been set for late Sunday morning, Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear safety agency, previously told reporters.
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Thanks for abhoring violence in Libya bud.
That will be real helpful. At least you tried.
@Gentlehawk, I'm so sorry to hear what you and your family went through.It would be nice to know more and if you'd like to friend up, initially by joining a Facebook group on this Fukushima nuclear issue, you'd be so very welcome. I don't particularly want to write my personal email address here straight off. On the group you'll see the name of a well known explorer, that's a clue https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_150736704989597&ap=1
So...maybe its time WE started protesting!
time to rebuild..
Reading the press for the past 2 weeks, there are some obvious things that I really don’t understand in the way this situation is handled, monitored, and covered by the press and authorities :
“Three men laying cable in the No. 3 unit turbine building's basement have been hospitalized after stepping in the highly radioactive water there on Thursday.”
“Work has similar ceased at the No. 3 reactor's turbine building, where tests earlier indicated radiation 10,000 times normal in that structure's basement. “
Why they are not using robots to do some of this work. Why they did not use robots or mechanized equipment when they needed to find out if the pools were full or empty, making measurements, making videos of the damages, etc.? Robots exist in nuclear plants, other industries, countries, space exploration, universities... Why are not they used? Why is nobody asking this obvious question?
“Koyama told reporters that radiation alarms went off while the three men were working, but they continued with their mission for 40 to 50 minutes after assuming it was a false alarm.”
Don’t they carry measurement devices to control the radioactivity of where they go to? Why do they need to get an alarm message from someone else?
This ancient indian way to fight radiation should help-
http://www.agnihotra.org/content/agnihotra-and-radioactivity
If they are detecting Iodine 134 as reported with a 53 minute half life, to me that would indicate a re-criticallity somewhere.
Either the presence of Iodine 134 is in error or they have huge additional problems with a critical reactor somewhere.
Just revised to 100,000 times normal.
@Jazz 7 here?
Oh, dear.. I agree, R2, these humans will be the death of us. And who will cry for Johnny 5?
This is such a scary thing...
RADIATION doent scare me.. snakes do tho..
If the pope and the donald ran the world we wouldn't have any of these crappy reactors or snakes.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE, LET'S FACE IT
SO WHY NOT REPENT YOUR SINS!
GRAB A COPY OF THE GOOD BOOK, AND PRAY TO THE LORD!
ALL HAIL THE BLACK JESUS!
Just think most storm systems we get start in the western pacific and move east toward the north american shores.So wont we be geting radio active rain fall thus contaminating are water supply ?All that we eat depends on fresh water and so do we ! They need to stop this thing pretty soon or its reaches will be globel if not already. so much has been happening it's hard not to say we are at the door step of the begining of the end!