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As much as everyone would like to take you at face value, I think a few quotes are in order.
Agloco plays both sides of the subject matter he acts like the radiation no worse than eating a banana then he post links that show how serious it is.
As much as everyone would like to take you at face value, I think a few quotes are in order.
Not sure what you are getting at, but the 322 times will be well diluted once it hits the ocean. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming it's safe. Just that it's nowhere near a disaster.
So if a man only puts 333% of his in your ass your not really gay?
There is no such thing as safe amount of radiation that is how uneducated Agloco and others are.
Greenpeace: Fukushima Massive Contamination Rapidly Spinning Out of Control
The Japanese government doesn’t know how to deal with the massive contamination caused by the nuclear disaster. Instead of protecting people from radiation, they are downplaying the risks by increasing the allowed radiation levels far above international standards. And professors like Dr. Yama a, who make statements like ‘If you smile, the radiation will not affect you’ are being employed as official advisors on radiation health risk.
In short, it is clear that the situation in Fukushima is rapidly spinning out of control, and if the national government does not take full responsibility for the protection of its population, the people affected by the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi will continue to suffer for a long time to come.
http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...em/blog/38305/
Hey Agloco.......................
bon appe
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...099680526.html
TOKYO—Japanese authorities are set to announce Friday that they have brought the Fukushima Daiichi complex's devastated reactors to a state called cold shutdown, a milestone in stabilizing the site of the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout
Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Possible Death Count.
"This study of Fukushima health hazards is the first to be published in a scientific journal. It raises concerns, and strongly suggests that health studies continue, to understand the true impact of Fukushima in Japan and around the world. Findings are important to the current debate of whether to build new reactors, and how long to keep aging ones in operation."
"Based on our continuing research, the actual death count here may be as high as 18,000, with influenza and pneumonia, which were up five-fold in the period in question as a cause of death. Deaths are seen across all ages, but we continue to find that infants are hardest hit because their tissues are rapidly multiplying, they have undeveloped immune systems, and the doses of radioisotopes are proportionally greater than for adults."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issues weekly reports on numbers of deaths for 122 U.S. cities with a population over 100,000, or about 25-30 percent of the U.S. In the 14 weeks after Fukushima fallout arrived in the U.S. (March 20 to June 25), deaths reported to the CDC rose 4.46 percent from the same period in 2010, compared to just 2.34 percent in the 14 weeks prior. Estimated excess deaths during this period for the entire U.S. are about 14,000.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/19/413...cle-14000.html
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Agloco quote
Radiation is about a bad as eating a Banana
I think you should put that in the proper context.
Hmmm.
I am be somewhat skeptical of any such clear cut e. Science rarely works that way.
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One thing that starts activating my bull detector is when articles spend a lot of time trying to establish how credible the source material is.
When you cite that many sciency sounding sources, it usually means that you are compensating for something.
Bend over and I will. (rim shot)
The Bottom line 98% of you took radiation as a Joke and now your uneducated words will haunt you on the www for generations to come .
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Isn't it you that says no amount of radiation is acceptable?
I'd like to know how thick the lead lined room is that you live in.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/26/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2Japan's nuclear response filled with errors, report says
This just gets uglier and uglier.- Plant operators "did not fully understand" a key backup system, investigators say
- "Such a situation is quite inappropriate," their report states
- The plant's emergency command center wasn't shielded from radiation
- Investigators criticize delayed or "ambiguous" statements by authorities
Not safe enough.... they need to be as thick your head.
You knew that when you married her.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/n...lasso?id=10131Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis.
But Navrotsky and others have since discovered a new way in which seawater can corrode nuclear fuel, forming uranium compounds that could potentially travel long distances, either in solution or as very small particles. The research team published its work Jan. 23 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“This is a phenomenon that has not been considered before,” said Alexandra Navrotsky, distinguished professor of ceramic, earth and environmental materials chemistry. “We don’t know how much this will increase the rate of corrosion, but it is something that will have to be considered in future.”
Japan used seawater to avoid a much more serious accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, and Navrotsky said, to her knowledge, there is no evidence of long-distance uranium contamination from the plant.
Uranium in nuclear fuel rods is in a chemical form that is “pretty insoluble” in water, Navrotsky said, unless the uranium is oxidized to uranium-VI — a process that can be facilitated when radiation converts water into peroxide, a powerful oxidizing agent.
Peter Burns, professor of civil engineering and geological sciences at the University of Notre Dame and a co-author of the new paper, had previously made spherical uranium peroxide clusters, rather like carbon “buckyballs,” that can dissolve or exist as solids.
In the new paper, the researchers show that in the presence of alkali metal ions such as sodium — for example, in seawater — these clusters are stable enough to persist in solution or as small particles even when the oxidizing agent is removed.
In other words, these clusters could form on the surface of a fuel rod exposed to seawater and then be transported away, surviving in the environment for months or years before reverting to more common forms of uranium, without peroxide, and settling to the bottom of the ocean. There is no data yet on how fast these uranium peroxide clusters will break down in the environment, Navrotsky said.
Navrotsky and Burns worked with the following co-authors: postdoctoral researcher Christopher Armstrong and project scientist Tatiana Shvareva, UC Davis; May Nyman, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, N.M.; and Ginger Sigmon, University of Notre Dame. The U.S. Department of Energy supported the project.
(Updated) TEPCO Press Conference on Reactor 2 RPV Temperature
[...]
(There are many reporters this time…)
[...]
Asahi Shinbun’s reporter asked how high exactly the temperature went, as the graph seemed to show the e above 90 degrees Celsius.
Matsumoto answered the graph is plotting all the 1-second readings from the digital display, not visually verified by the workers. The official reporting is every 6 hours, the reference reporting is every hour.
SOURCE: EX-SKF
[...]
Q: Why has the temperature started to vary widely since noon?
A: We don’t quite know.
Q: When will you get back to the normal operation under the safety regulations?
A: To do it, we have to make sure it is the instrument failure.
Q: Does the instrument failure have to do with the variance?
A: It’s not that the instrument failure started today, but it may have started late January when this thermometer started to behave differently from the other two at the bottom of the RPV.
[...]
Q: Why did you start mentioning “instrument failure” only when the temperature started to approach 80 degrees Celsius?
A: We didn’t think it was behaving erratically. The variance of 1 degrees was understood. The trend changed at the end of January. Also, the temperature remained high as more water ac ulate inside the RPV, therefore the instrument failure more likely.
A: We want to see if it is possible to have the instrument failure where the temperature drops, instead of going up.
A: The Containment Vessel is still hot and humid, so we have to make sure the other instruments [with temperatures remaining in the 30s?] are working properly. At this point, we don’t have better alternatives.
[...]
Q: Why are you increasing the amount of water if you think it is the instrument failure? What do you think of the safety regulations?
A: We have always informed the NISA and followed the safety regulations. (No answer on why they are increasing water.)
http://enenews.com/asahi-reporter-te...peratures-gone
Frontline has a episode that is airing right now on Fukushima. As always, they've done a good job.
As an aside I'm not sure there's a news program I enjoy more than Frontline.
Also, NPR's Fresh Air from today has an interview with the director of the Frontline episode. It is very good as well.
Good and scary.
The Japanese government is coming up covered in as more details emerge.
On the mild upside, the Japanese people have been much comforted by US efforts to help. The US embassador has commented that he is constantly told how much that help has been appreciated by the common folk he meets and talks to.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/...na002000c.htmlOne of the biggest issues that we face is the possibility that the spent nuclear fuel pool of the No. 4 reactor at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant will collapse. This is something that experts from both within and outside Japan have pointed out since the massive quake struck. TEPCO, meanwhile, says that the situation is under control. However, not only independent experts, but also sources within the government say that it's a grave concern.
The storage pool in the No. 4 reactor building has a total of 1,535 fuel rods, or 460 tons of nuclear fuel, in it. The 7-story building itself has suffered great damage, with the storage pool barely intact on the building's third and fourth floors. The roof has been blown away. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode, causing a massive amount of radioactive substances to spread over a wide area. Both the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and French nuclear energy company Areva have warned about this risk.
A report released in February by the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident stated that the storage pool of the plant's No. 4 reactor has clearly been shown to be "the weakest link" in the parallel, chain-reaction crises of the nuclear disaster. The worse-case scenario drawn up by the government includes not only the collapse of the No. 4 reactor pool, but the disintegration of spent fuel rods from all the plant's other reactors. If this were to happen, residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area would be forced to evacuate.
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