Level of iodine-131 in seawater off chartContamination 1,250 times above maximum limit

The Japan Times ^ | March 26, 2011 | KANAKO TAKAHARA and KAZUAKI NAGATA

[Red in Blue PA]

Re: Ann is a media whore

In one of her books, she actually had a chapter titled “who would Jesus kill?”

What on God’s earth does that accomplish?

I stand by my statement.....in fact I have believed that from the time read that chapter title.

[Oztrich Boy]

Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days. Most of it will be gone in 16 days.

80 days (ten half-deaths) is the normally accepted limit.

[JadeEmperor]

"Alpha radiation is stopped by the skin, Beta radiation is stopped by several inches of water,"

But alpha or beta radiation-emitting particles can be very dangerous if inhaled or ingested. Which will be the primary exposure root for most people - through water, seafood, etc.

[Oztrich Boy]

I wouldn't drink the water from around the reactor.

Well, no. It's saltwater.

[texmexis best]

Most of it is going out to sea. And no one is at the beach as it is a bit chilly in Nippon this time of year. The particles will fall in the water column as they go out to sea and end up on the ocean floor.

From the videos I have seen, most Japanese are wearing surgical masks and the danger is quite minimal.

[Palladin]

Probably not, but what is the alternative?

[RummyChick]

So in essence, the cladding has been compromised, hydrogen was generated and fission byproducts were released.

why were there neutron beams measuring 1.5 kilometers seen at least 13 times

[Yaelle]

She is so weird. What conservative woman is always only single, no interest in settling down with anyone, with the body and Adam’s Apple of a skinny tranny, who feels she has to have her long hair, low cut top and short skirt in every pic? Why is she selling sex all the time? She seems profoundly uncomfortable with herself, not like Sarah Palin who seems and acts like a confident attractive woman with nothing to prove.

[RummyChick]

TOKYO, March 27 (Xinhua) — More than 1,000 millisieverts per hour was found in the water at the No.2 reactor in the troubled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in Japan on Saturday, according to Kyodo News report.

[RummyChick]

#Japan plant operator says radioactivity in water at reactor No. 2 10 million times usual level, workers evacuated

[chimera]

First, they were not "beams". The "beam" geometry infers either focusing, which for neutrons requires specialzed equipment like bent crystals, or collimation, which is unlikely in a more or less random geometry.

There are ways other than fission to produce a neutron flux. Read up on things like photodistintegration. I did a fast SCRAM recovery for a reactor a couple of weeks ago using only photoneutrons. No fission, no external neutron source, nothing.

The cladding was probably damaged during the overheating, but production of hydrogen could have occurred without a cladding rupture. It is a steam-zirconium reaction that occurs on the other surface when the temperature gets high enough.

[Red in Blue PA]

She is an oddball on the right, yet people willingly follow her no matter how ludicrous the things she might say.

And let me add that I am not one of the people who finds her attractive.....what comes out of her mouth obviates anything tractive about her.

Oddball.

[Justa]

I’m worried about the Cs-137 (30-yr. half life) not the short-lived iodine. They’re usually reported together but curiously not in this report.

[RummyChick]

TEPCO called them beams.

[RummyChick]

If you really want to be worried start thinking about why this was pulled from the NYTIMES story

“” A senior nuclear executive who insisted on anonymity but has broad contacts in Japan said that there was a long vertical crack running down the side of the reactor vessel itself. The crack runs down below the water level in the reactor and has been leaking fluids and gases, he said.

The severity of the radiation burns to the injured workers are consistent with contamination by water that had been in contact with damaged fuel rods, the executive said. “There is a definite, definite crack in the vessel — it’s up and down and it’s large,” he said. “The problem with cracks is they do not get smaller.”

[chimera]

Well, I am suspicious of an “embellishment” in translation. A beam geometry (I am working on a neutron beamline now in a research application) are difficult to manage when actively engineering, much less being formed by random geometry. We are using collimators and filters to form and shape the beam. You don't have those in either a reactor core or a SFP.

[RummyChick]

btw, I am sure you have heard of Joe Cirincione

Do you believe he has any credibility?????

Because he seems to think the situation is much more serious than you let on.

[chimera]

Sounds like speculation for media consumption. I'm not saying there isn't the chance there could be that kind of damage, but no one has been close enough to see the pressure vessel first-hand. There were just some remote vehicles just delivered to the site but as far as I know they have not been deployed. Until someone gets a close look, probably using remote cameras like we did with SL-1 and TMI-2, there won't be any definite word.

[RummyChick]

It may be a translation issue.

But I don’t think the 10 million figure reported last night was a translation issue.

TEPCO is now coming out and saying they were mistaken.
TEPCO denying the high measurement figures : “The number is not credible,” said Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) spokesman Takashi Kurita. “We are very sorry.”

So, the info was released
Now they are backtracking.

I am interested to know why the NY Times withdrew info in an article about a crack.

Was it a lie in the first place or was it withdrawn for the same reasons that TEPCO isn’t really telling what is going on.

[chimera]

Remind me of what the “10 million” referred to?