1,000,000μSv = 1000mSv = 1Sv

250mSV is about when you start to get symptons of radiation sickness. Its also the maximum allowed dose for workers at the Fukushima powerplant. To get that kind of dose from the radiation they were exposed to at the end of the clip they'd need to stand there for some 2500 hours.

So yeah, while its definitely not healthy to be there its not chernobyl either. I don't think it'll be 50 years before enough material has decayed to allow rehabitation either.

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>> ^jimnms:

I wish there were English translations of the text. What I found interesting is that as they were first going in they hit some higher radiation farther out, and then it went down, less than the when they first were able to see the plant.


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My government decided to stay out of this mess for the time being, but just like the Turkish, they are already on the verge of joining the party. I was suprised -- and baffled, really -- by the enormous amount of pro-intervention articles by the media, both progressive and conservative, and the lack of hard information therein. The most commonly named reason for supporting the intervention was international standing and diplomatical reliability -- and they don't even realize what fucked up reasoning that truly is.

And the political odour of this entire activism by Sarkozy and Cameron, it just smells like the gents at the pub I was last week: both have serious domestic problems, so one can't help but think of Maggie Thatcher's eagerness about the Falkland War. Fukushima certainly didn't help those two either, both are strong proponents of nuclear power.

Laughland mentioned Kosovo. Remember how the war criminal Slobodan Milošević was removed from power by supporting the UÇK? What a merry band of democrats that was, Hashim Thaçi certainly is one hell of a posterchild. Carla Del Ponte, former prosecutor for the ICTY, published some very insightful articles about it over the years, but the ones I have at hand are in German. Despicable shit.

As for the intervention in Libya: Al Jazeera had some informative op-eds about it, eg. "The drawbacks of intervention in Libya" and "Libya intervention threatens the Arab spring". And, as usual, Greenwald: "The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya".

I had five more paragraphs of personal opinion, but I decided to remove that block of biased rambling.

Gojira!
>> ^Yogi:

GODZILLA!!!

There are lots of articles, but this one is also good. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/At-Fukushima-gensets-were-underground/articleshow/7741036.cms

"heat in the cores even after shutdown, sufficient to boil off 300 tonnes of water every day"

"Analysis emerging now shows that there were 13 diesel generators installed in a below-ground bunker near the seawall protecting the nuclear plant from the ocean. The diesel fuel was reportedly stored in tanks built on the sea front to facilitate easy unloading from ships."


This backup generator design has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, next to leaving like six reactors worth of spent fuel rods sitting in an open pool on top of a nuclear reactor.

So basically this place was designed to only have 8 hours of battery power... Clearly the reactors were going to melt down. I'm really surprised there was no emergency water tanks built into the system anywhere. Now I understand why TEPCO told the PM on Monday that they were done, and they were leaving and it was a suicide mission to stay. Remember when they said all the workers left. That was when they told the govt it is hopeless.

I saw this live on TV here. I cried. Somehow, that dog putting his arm around his pal just totally expressed the way the Japanese are reacting to this disaster--we are all in this together and we will get each other through it.

Many of the foreign residents here, on the other hand, have been embarrassingly borderline hysterical and for the most part can only think of saving themselves by fleeing the country as soon as possible. Part of the problem is the Western news is purposely sensationalizing the situation out here. Make no mistake, it's serious. But it seems like news writers can't resist writing the word "Chernobyl" in every single article when the scale of the problems at the Fukushima plant aren't anywhere near that bad.

The newest reactors have a passive cooling system, so even a total power failure at the reactor (odd for a NUCLEAR REACTOR to be without power, eh?) won't stop the rods cooling. Fukushima's reactors are decades old, and a far cry from the best nuclear energy has to offer.

They are GE nuclear plants. I guess your parent company GE did not think of this issue way back when these were built.
GE's Mark I systems

Follow the radioactive cloud via the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI): link (high load)

Take a look at screencaps made over the last couple of hours, Ibaraki prefecture, south of Fukushima: 1:00, 1:20, 4:30, 4:40, 4:50. The wind turns and Ibaraki prefecture goes from ~40 nGy/h up to 5000 nGy/h -- and that's ~160km from Fukushima I NPP, so it's most likely the cloud passing by.

If you convert it 1:1 into nSv/h just to get a rough picture, it's 5 μSv/h. Average annual dose over here is 2 mSv. That's 400 hours at 5 μSv/h for your annual dose, a little less than 17 days.

Now, it only peaked around 5000 nGy/h and dropped again after the cloud moved on, so it's basically negligable in the short term. But that's 160km from the most likely source of the radiation. Some readings from up close would be interesting. They ought to be considerably higher, don't they?

Unfortunatly, all the entries for Fukushima are marked as "under servey" (sic). Last I heard was about 680 μSv/h recorded at some monitoring posts northwest of the power station: annual dose in three hours, how wonderful for the poor sobs trying to prevent the defecation from hitting the oscillation.

Judging by some discussions I've seen, a few more details should be noted:

-When reports say that fuel rods are "exposed" it means that water is no longer surrounding them, not that they are exposed to the environment.

-A "meltdown" generally means that the fuel rods have melted, not that the containment system has melted.


Chances are that at least some of the rods in the Fukushima reactors have melted, but they're still contained within the reactor. It's a big financial hit since it almost certainly renders the reactors unusable indefinitely, but it isn't a widespread environmental risk unless the reactor itself explodes.

If left uncooled then the molten rod material could possibly melt through the enclosure, but I don't know the likelihood of that. The longer that takes, the less radiation there will be (assuming it can even happen).

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>> ^NicoleBee:

No way.. No way.

Please, read this before you panic: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-12/japan-nuclear-fallout-how-bad-could-it-get/