Posted on 03/15/2011 12:56:34 PM PDT by Sprite518
Japan has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog radioactivity was being released "directly" into the atmosphere from the site of an earthquake-stricken reactor and that it had put out a fire at a spent fuel storage pond there.
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Such as what. You would be living in an apartment, perhaps. Say in Osaka. What exactly would you be doing differently based on a Drudge Report headline?
Nothing on the IAEA news ticker to confirm this.
That is an accurate assessment!!
That was the point of my mention of a water sprinkler. You note that it is releasing SOME particles into the atmosphere. So? It always does above and beyond the background radiation. Now it's releasing more. How much is too much?
If you would turn on your Geiger counter you'd hear clicks from ionizations happening all the time around you. How much faster would it click in Osaka? In Odessa?
If you can't characterize the release, or the area of effect, then you might as well be warning about a potential meteorite strike.
400 mSv per hour is an extremely serious situation. That’s exactly why they evacuated the area around the power plant.
The higher the level of radioactivity, the shorter the half-life, at least. Let’s hope the prevailing winds continue to blow the plume out over the ocean.
400 mSv per hour is an extremely serious situation. That’s exactly why they evacuated the area around the power plant.
The higher the level of radioactivity, the shorter the half-life, at least. Let’s hope the prevailing winds continue to blow the plume out over the ocean.
Before earthquake: Freepers: “Reuters is the worst. Unreliable. Liberal. Liars”
After earthquake: Freepers: “Did you see what Reuters just released? This is important!!!”
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When you vent the reactor (which they’ve been doing for the past couple of days), some radioactive isotopes are vented as well. IOW - directly into the atmosphere.
The actual source of the information (IAEA), FROM 7 HOURS AGO, states the following: “a 400 millisieverts (mSv) per hour radiation dose observed at Fukushima Daiichi occurred between Units 3 and 4. This is a high dose-level value, but it is a local value at a single location and at a certain point in time.”
Furthermore, the Reuters article states: “that the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is on fire and radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere.”
That fire was extinguished 7 hours ago.
Reuters repackages old news under a new title and Freepers consider it reliable.
I’ve been told that friends in Tokyo were being told nothing to see, move along but now it’s suddenly get outta Dodge mode.
I don’t think anyone knows WTFukushima is going on in Japan.
So which way is the wind blowing?
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out to sea was the forecast for a few days on
NHK .. should be OK .. fingers crossed
Think of the reactor core as a light bulb. The light emmitted by the bulb isn’t blown or affected by the wind in any way. Radiation emitted directly from the core is very dangerous to those who have to be close to it and deal with it.
Fallout is the real danger here but fallout is dust, smoke, and steam that have been radiated and are carried by the wind. Fortunately those things have been pretty limited and haven’t been thrown miles into the air.
Chernobyl was many orders of magnitude worse than what we see in Japan. That reactor fire was hidden from the world for a long time and was a particularly dirty fire that dumped tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
In this case the Japanese have real reason for concern but its unlikely that we’ll get much in the way of measurable fallout here.
Heard on CNN a few minutes ago the dome has been damaged.
Ignorance is Blix!
Good and thanks for the good explanation. It sounds right to me.
Thanks for the explanation
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