"Relax. I'll handle this."
Posted on 02/03/2017 3:01:42 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
A record radiation level has been detected inside the No. 2 reactor at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex,
with the estimated reading of up to 530 sieverts per hour, the plant operator said Thursday.
The reading means a person could die from even brief exposure, highlighting the difficulties ahead as the government and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.
grope their way toward dismantling all three reactors that melted down in the March 2011 nuclear disaster.
The plant operator also announced that based on an image analysis, a 1-square-meter hole has been found on a metal grating beneath the reactor pressure vessel,
likely caused by melted nuclear fuel that fell through the vessel.
The new radiation level, described by some experts as “unimaginable,” far exceeds 73 sieverts per hour, the previously highest radiation reading monitored in the interior of the reactor.
An official of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences said medical professionals have never considered dealing with this level of radiation in their work.
According to TEPCO, the extremely high radiation level was detected inside the containment vessel, in the space around 2.3 meters away from the base of the reactor pressure vessel.
According to the institute, 4 sieverts of radiation exposure would kill one in two people.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantoday.com ...
Aren’t there biblical predictions about everything in the sea dying off. Hope this isn’t the start when Fukishima slips into the ocean.
Don’t give Brown ideas. Presently it is in the works to raise gasoline by 80 cents a gallon in California, and add $65 additional to the already high rate to register your cars each year. (We have to pay every second year to have our cars pass the smog test.) Boo and hiss, Brown. He’s not working out.
They’re gonna need a lot more Boron.
Funny you should say that. The Japanese already take a Geiger counter to the fish market to check out fish before they purchase it. Probably only in the environs of Fukishima maybe.
Sieverts and Grays are SI units.
One Sievert is 100 Rem. One Gray is 100 Rad.
We still talk rad/rem in the US Navy.
It is them Frenchman who use Sieverts!
I believe that is correct.
The new information is that the degree of radiation leakage is significantly larger than what they imagined. Furthermore, according to the new information, the proposed route that they had planned on using to get the robots in position, will have to be re-routed,
since it appears that the grating has melted away due to fuel debris.
Quote:" If the deposits are confirmed as fuel debris, it would be the first time the utility has found any at the three units that suffered meltdowns "
Frenchies and Krauts and all sich like people.
Yeah, I had heard that some Japanese around Fukushima have taken geiger counters to market with themselves to choose which fish and vegetable products to buy.
With elevated background radiation readings taken by "preppers" in the NorthWest, it might not seem like a bad idea, especially if the reactor cannot be controlled until 2030.
I suspect a good gieger counter would be a good investment now, especially before any further information is released to the general public.
There is just so much information, political happenings, and social unrest in the news today that much general and health information gets missed.
Nuclear is very safe. Just locate the nuclear core where liberals are in LA & NY cities. EO coming.
Actually, a geiger counter, check your food & fish, you will survive ok.
"Safer" is, after all, a relative term!
How does radiation destroy the robot?
Interferes with the solid state electronics in the robot.
If it's "per second" shouldn't they be called Avis?
In Lost in Space, it made the Robot huge, and when it started to shrink back, they had to scramble to get out before they all got squashed.
Good point. Start a Change dot org petition, and I might sign it.
So build one with tubes. Or 'valves' as the foreigners say.
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