Showing posts with label Fukushima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fukushima. Show all posts

Monday, August 5, 2013

Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency'

So if a rash of Californians develop cancer, or premature babies are born with deformities, can we sue Japan, Inc.?

http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/5/fukushima-radioactive-water-likely-breached

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Newly released TEPCO data provides evidence of periodic chain reaction at Fukushima Unit 1

Here's an explanation on "inadvertent criticality."


Newly released TEPCO data provides evidence of periodic chain reaction at Fukushima Unit 1 from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/21881702

Fukushima Radiation Literally Off The Charts

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fukushima-radiation-literally-charts
According to NHK, "a radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers there are exposed to immeasurable levels of radiation." Unfortunately for the workers present, the monitor is not being metaphoric: "The monitor told NHK that no one can enter the plant's No. 1 through 3 reactor buildings because radiation levels are so high that monitoring devices have been rendered useless.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

URGENT: Radiation 1,600 times normal level 20 km from Fukushima plant: IAEA

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80057.html
Radiation 1,600 times higher than normal levels has been detected in an area about 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, International Atomic Energy Agency officials said Monday.

Data collected by an IAEA team show that radiation levels of 161 microsievert per hour have been detected in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, the officials said.

The government has set an exclusion zone covering areas within a 20-km radius of the plant and has urged people within 20 to 30 km to stay indoors.
Staying indoors?  How about "get the hell out of there"?

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Understanding the radioactivity at Fukushima

This is the best presentation on the dangers of the Fukushima nuclear  plant disaster I have seen.  The presentation comes from Physics professor Ben Monreal of UCSB, which happens to be my alma mater.  Bone up on your periodic tables.

http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/bmonreal11/pdf/BMonreal11_PublicLecture_KITP.pdf
Conclusions
• The worst general-public effects of Chernobyl were
stress/fear; HUGE education/communication failure
• You have the information: count the millisieverts and
decide how to respond
• My feeling: the worst-case radiation hazards from
Fukushima are mitigatable and local
• (early evacuation + controls on 131I in food)
• My feeling: the global radiation hazard is nil.
• The best way to reduce worldwide low-level radiation
releases is ... stop burning coal
• Save your energy for those affected by the tsunami and
“50 plant workers” at Fukushima
Ben Monreal, UCSB Physics 3/11