Posted on 03/15/2011 4:45:22 PM PDT by library user
A fire which broke out early Wednesday at a quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant is under control, the government said.
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That didn’t take long.
From Reuters again :
Radiation poses only slight risk to nervous Tokyo: U.S. experts
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-japan-quake-health-idUSTRE72E9DL20110315
EXCERPT
Dozens of workers battling to control radiation at Japan’s stricken reactors face a far greater risk of developing cancer than normal, but Tokyo residents are within the safe range for exposure, U.S. nuclear experts said.
Radiation levels in Tokyo, one of the world’s most populous cities, rose 10 times above average Tuesday evening, spreading fear among many of the 33 million residents in the metropolitan area.
The best advice experts could give them was to stay indoors, close the windows and avoid breathing bad air — steps very similar to those for handling a smog alert or avoiding influenza.
While these steps may sound inconsequential, experts said the danger in Tokyo, while worrisome, is slight - at least for now.
“Everything I’ve seen so far suggests there have been nominal amounts of material released. Therefore, the risks are generally low to the population,” Jerrold Bushberg, who directs programs in health physics at the University of California at Davis, said in a telephone interview.
“There may be more significant risks for emergency workers on site. They are dealing with the occupational exposure, but not for the population at large.”
Fresh explosions Tuesday at the Fukushima plant, 180 miles north of Tokyo, released low levels of radiation, escalating a crisis triggered by last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami. With cooling systems knocked out, the fear is more blasts within the reactors at the complex could eventually cause a major radiation leak.
The levels measured around Tokyo at one point were 40 times above normal but have receded to 10 times. That amounts to roughly the same dose as a chest or abdominal CT scan.
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Spent nuke fuel pool may be boiling, further radiation leak feared
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78267.html
This may not be good news for the anti-nuke people wishing for death and disaster in order to advance their agenda.
Yeah, but the weather girl on NHK is much prettier
Obama votes present (by proxy).
They’re trying to push the “good” news out there right before the Nikkei opens for the day.
Could be.
It is rather odd that there’s no details.
I can't imagine the nightmare they're going through.
After two-day sell-off, Japan’s Nikkei opens up over 2 percent - CNBC
Up 312 now. Like everything is back to normal. /heavy sarc
Nearly 500 now. Why not just double overnight everything is so peachy keen.
“I have the feeling that many employees at this plant are giving their lives to bring it under control.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2689374/posts?page=1
The Fukushima 50: Not afraid to die
Headline:
FIRE AT REACTOR PUT OUT. MEDIA AND PANICKY IDIOTS HARDEST HIT.
CNN dropped the ball on THAT one, eh?
Seems to be some BS from one side or the other. If the navy is moving their ships around to avoid radioactive fallout, there must be leakage from somewhere! Radiation is radiation. If there is stuff leaking there is a problem.
It is getting more and more difficult to maintain this confidence given the way in which the situation has degraded over the last week. I am not saying these things will “blow-up” but where exactly is this heading, what really is the most likely end result and what is the worst case scenario?
It seems they either do not know (most likely) or do not want to say. If it is the later, then they should be at least letting us know.
schu
Live now on NHK, #4 is spewing white smoke (as they describe it), looks like steam to me? As a side note, hydrogen doesn’t burn like wood or gasoline. Since this reactor has been shut down for a considerable time, something else is maintaining the fires. Equipment? Wood, plastic? Who knows. Too much radiation for them to investigate. I’d sure like to see some southern California type firefighter helos dump water through the roof to flood the spent rod pool.
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