Posted on 05/15/2011 6:47:13 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Meltdown occurred at Fukushima No. 1 reactor 16 hrs after March 11 quake
TOKYO, May 15, Kyodo
A nuclear fuel meltdown at the No. 1 reactor of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant is believed to have occurred around 16 hours after the March 11 quake and tsunami crippled the complex in northeastern Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.kyodonews.jp ...
The rad tech blogger Wormme (Wormme.com) has that picture you posted featured with the following text:
How not to wear a respirator, Take 2.
Posted on May 15, 2011 by wormme
The gloves arent necessarily a problem if theyre taped to an inner set of PPEs. Having the hood between yourself and your respirators straps obviously is.
I dont know what their problem is. But, assuming theyre working in highly contaminated and airborne areas, some of these folks are getting facial contaminations and internal deposits of radioactivity. Here, its a rare and industry-alarming event.
Ah a tiny tiny micro spot of good news re the photo. Someone pointed out in the Wormme comments that the photo is captioned to be training at the Fukushima Danii facility - but they are training them in unsafer protocols by having the mask on the outside.
Unfortunately, someone else posted a picture of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi wearing ‘rebreathers’ wrong (face mask straps on the outside)
http://tinyurl.com/42ty2n9
To which the Wormme blogger responded:
I just dont know what to say at this point. If theyre doing that in airborne areas theyre going to get uptakes and internal dose.
Recalling from my past Rad training (both private commericial and federal DOE facility) the minimum was 1 pair white coveralls, 1 pair canvas boot liners, 1 pair rubber gloves, 1 pair rubber boots, 1 head cover, and 1 pair canvas gloves. Respiratory requirements were per the RAD work order.
If water was involved there would be a rain suit of some sorts...
Since I can’t find the picture from the Press page I really don’t know what to think.
If that was contaminated water..they were using a spray nozzle and causing it to be airborne.
I hope it was just a training picture. But it seems odd to have a training picture within those sequence of numbers on the URL.
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