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Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six years ago.
The facilitys operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said atmospheric readings as high as 530 sieverts an hour had been recorded inside the containment vessel of reactor No 2,...
The recent reading, described by some experts as unimaginable, is far higher than the previous record of 73 sieverts an hour in that part of the reactor.
A single dose of one sievert is enough to cause radiation sickness and nausea; 5 sieverts would kill half those exposed to it within a month, and a single dose of 10 sieverts would prove fatal within weeks.
Tepco also said image analysis had revealed a hole in metal grating beneath the same reactors pressure vessel. The one-metre-wide hole was probably created by nuclear fuel that melted and then penetrated the vessel after the tsunami knocked out Fukushima Daiichis back-up cooling system....
Not too much to add to this. They are not saying that the core has escaped the containment vessel and are claiming that no radiation has escaped the reactor, but later in the article admit that they dont really know where the core is. If it is true that radiation levels are rising, that is probably not a good thing.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/3/1629551/--Fukushima-Reactor-2-pressure-vessel-breached-rising-to-unimaginable-levels-of-radiation?detail=facebook
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)The radiation from Fuckishima has been ignored by much of the world and is poisoning us and there are many more of these aging identical designed reactors, right here in the US.
Good thing we have Sec.Rick Perry and the Trump EPA to make sure that doesn't happen here.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Anonymous Bosh
(28 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)People just shrug. Plus, they call you crazy if you point out that this material is polluting the waters where fish swim that are eaten here. Long range salmon for example.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)And hearing about the hot particles being found here on the West Coast. Then the news just stopped covering Fukushima leaving those interested to have to actively search for coverage. Even now, most who bring Fukushima up are almost always discounted as conspiracy theorists.
The massive amounts of radioactive contaminated materials is staggering. All that cooling water, now highly contaminated, is being released into the sea. The soil, enough to fill 18 sports arenas, will now be used to pave roads.
Crazy
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)as for fish....we stopped eating it several years ago, and grimly admitted mankind is too stupid to live, as a rule.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Under the basic plan, tainted soil with relatively low radioactive cesium concentrations of up to 5,000 to 8,000 becquerels per kilogram will be used to form the base layer of roads.
This level will then be covered with uncontaminated soil, asphalt and other material with at a thickness of at least 50 to 100 cm.
By covering radioactive soil with untainted material, the health risk for residents living in nearby areas will be minimized as their annual radiation dose will be kept to 0.01 millisievert or less, according to the ministry.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/07/national/radioactive-soil-to-be-used-in-base-layer-for-new-roads/#.WJYhrxnTnqA
The biggest issue I have is that the Japanese Gov has downplayed official radiation levels in the past.
starshine00
(531 posts)this is ONE reactor, plus ONE natural disaster, and we have untenable and uncontainable results, that will effect us for what, hundreds or thousands of years? And there are people out there who believe we need MORE of these things around?