[VRWCTexan]

“except for about 50 brave staff” -

...they seem to be easly glossed over as if they were chopped liver..?

Sadly it would appear likely that all 50 are (or soon will be) way over exposed before ever being allowed to leave?

I would not be suprised if most of these brave 50 are dead within weeks.

[jnaujok]

Sadly it would appear likely that all 50 are (or soon will be) way over exposed before ever being allowed to leave?

I would not be surprised if most of these brave 50 are dead within weeks.

Enough! These brave men are in far more danger from the explosions and fires then from radiation. So far the highest level of radiation exposure has been 1.015mSv. Now, very few people understand the meaning of a millisievert, so let's put it into a term you can understand.

That's about 30 BED.

What's a BED? That the "Banana Equivalent Dose" or the amount of radiation you'd get from eating a banana, as they concentrate Potassium, including the radioactive Potassium-40 isotope.

So, so far the worst dose has been the same as eating 30 bananas. The current "highly elevated" readings at the plant are 2 BED. That's right, the same as eating 2 bananas.

Lifetime (actually 5 year) allowance for a nuclear plant worker is about 15,000 BED.

No one at the plant is going to die from radiation, unless something else goes horribly wrong at this point. Even the fire in the holding pool only released about a 27 BED dose. Even then, TEPCO is rotating workers in and out of the area on 4-6 hour shifts to reduce even the low exposure time. Although it's just as likely to be to reduce the likelihood of stress exhaustion.

Please - please - please - stop the hysteria!