Posted on 03/22/2011 12:53:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Emergency workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have succeeded in restoring lighting to the control room of one of the plant's reactors.
The extra light will help technicians fix equipment damaged by this month's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Power cables have been attached to all six reactors in the hope of restarting the cooling systems.
The operation to restore power had been interrupted on Monday because of fears that radiation might be leaking in a plume of smoke.
But after surging briefly the day before, the radiation levels fell again and so it was judged safe for the work to continue.
Narumi Suzuki, who was among the first firefighters sent in, says he was shocked by the extent of the damage.
"When I saw the building itself for the first time there were piles of rubble," he said.
"It was much worse than we expected when we first set eyes on it.
"I and the other firefighters were frightened, but as a team we trusted each other and carried out the operation."
There will be an attempt to restart the cooling systems and monitoring equipment once more inspections are complete.
The plant's operators, Tokyo Electric Power Company, have apologised to thousands who have been forced to leave the area.
Company vice-president Norio Tsuzumi made the apology while visiting a gymnasium turned evacuation centre near the stricken nuclear plant.
He told evacuees, including the local mayor, the company was sorry for causing so much trouble.
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How many people have died from this nuclear accident? I heard that the Japanese accident is as bad as Three Mile Island. Nobody died in the Three Mile Island accident.
Some of the very brave workers who went through the worst period of time when the radiation level was fairly high will likely suffer some long term health challenges.
Blessings on all those who worked so valiantly to save their country.
Hooray!
But, but they keep telling everyone there’s no danger, no harm can come...
The media is also telling us the end of the earth is near.
Weird, In the media I watch, read or listen to, I’m not hearing that.
Damn it, they aren’t sticking to the MSM’s script! We’re all supposed be dying by now! :)
I have only seen one confirmed report of a worker who exceeded the normal safety limit for nuclear technical workers. The level was still below that which is determined to increase cancer risk and well below the level necessary to create any symptoms of radation exposure.
There have been reports of radiation spikes that were high enough to cause exposure risk, but no workers were in the exposure area at the time of the spikes. The normal limits for yearly exposure have been kept in place and monitored for each employee. The employees are to be lauded for standing posts in a high risk environment, but to this point, none of them has assumed the role of martyr.
Heroes in the truest sense of the world.
But I thought the sky was falling !!!!! .....anyway, God bless these brave people!
The extra light will help technicians fix equipment damaged by this month's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Can someone please tell me that something other than a lack of lighting inside the control room of the reactor caused this problem to be so drawn out? Pretty please? Because it seems to me that bringing lots of light to areas not powered by electricity is one technology that we've solved pretty well - or so my last trip to Academy Sports tells me.
Actually it's as bad as a hundred bazillion Chernobyls. The extent of radiation carried over the state of California was enough to ensure that everyone will die within 100 years.
There is no danger. Read the actual reports instead of listening to the hype.
There is no danger, to who? Because there definitely is danger, for some. And risks for others...
Excellent news that there are no fatalities.
“Can someone please tell me that something other than a lack of lighting inside the control room of the reactor caused this problem to be so drawn out? Pretty please? Because it seems to me that bringing lots of light to areas not powered by electricity is one technology that we’ve solved pretty well - or so my last trip to Academy Sports tells me. “
Obviously TEPCO is desperately searching for something positive to report. “We turned some lights on in a room” is really pretty lame. They didn’t even say if they were the original room lighting fixtures, or if they brought in portables.
Personally, it wouldn’t surprise me if none of the existing electronic controls and sensors ever work again, given the flooding and subsequent explosions. I’m also guessing that “inspections” is simply a euphamism for trying to find a single working pipe, pump or valve in the entire complex.
“But, but they keep telling everyone there’s no danger, no harm can come...”
There is risk in everything. Modern societies need plentiful amounts of electricity to thrive.
A source comparison of the deaths per megawatt hour of electricity produced would be informative to see.
I’m sure coal would be very high, and nuclear very low.
Yeah, so there is danger.
Explosions, smoke, steam.
Some are freezing, some are starving, some don’t have water.
So clearly there is danger...And to those who are finding or getting food, it may be contiminated, so there are risks...
Despite the many, many times of saying (propaganda), there’s no danger..
no harm in the ‘short term’ is what it had been changed to.
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