You will want to read this...
just effing great
How much water is there?
What is the half-life of the material?
Sitting in the counting-house counting all their carbon footprint money?
Leni
Stumbled on a show online (Bob Tusken) where he was interviewing a man with a background in nuclear power plants.
He said the frightening thing was that the Japanese are continuing to flood the area of the rods with water and that’s making a soup out of the earth underneath the reactor, making it incredibly unstable.
He said robotics would be only way to withdraw the rods and said the Japanese are desperate for international help.
Personally, I think all the “elites” have their bunkers and food supplies to run to—the rest of us are on our own.
Hasn’t Benghazi Barry built a new bunker underneath the White House? Why?
You guys have a Fukushima ping list? If yes, may I request to be on it? :)
I predicted this would happen. The whole event has been handled shabbily since the beginning, both by the Japanese government and the operators of the plant.
God help all the innocent people. They deserve better.
I add some lines from Atomic insights:
The latest media discovery was that the reading that was initially reported as 100 mSv/hour was really 1,800 mSv/hour because the detector that produced the 100 mSv/hour reading had a range that maxed out at 100 mSv/hour. What few, if any, media reports include is an explanation that the measured dose rate is nearly 100% beta radiation and that it was measured at a distance of just 70 micrometers from the radioactive material. Beta radiation can be shielded by a single sheet of paper and will only travel about 1-2 meters in dry air.
Someone needs to help journalists understand that there is no way that a beta-emitting radiation source can cause a deadly dose to a human being unless it is ingested in a concentrated form. Even if it is in direct contact, about the worst it can do is cause a skin burn; I would also not recommend using water contaminated with a beta emitter for eye wash. I suppose I have volunteered for that educational task.
As some of the more informative initial reports stated, the gamma radiation from the leaked water measured 1.5 mSv/hour. That number is still valid; it was well within the accurate measuring range of the instrument used.
http://atomicinsights.com/another-update-highly-radioactive-water-leaks-fukushima/
read as well
http://japandailypress.com/nra-chief-says-situation-at-fukushima-exaggerated-0535399/