Sky news now reporting Japanese government now saying one of the reactor's containment vessels is damaged at the bottom, hinting at serious radiation leak.
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“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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What do you propose we use to meet the worlds growing energy needs? Coal? Oil? Oligarchs gas? Mass extermination using said military nukes?Originally posted by AtW View PostI am becoming seriously anti-nuclear now (apart from military nukes).
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Germany to temporarily shut down seven nuclear plantsBERLIN, March 15 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that seven nuclear power station built before 1980 would be temporarily shut down during the three-month moratorium on nuclear extension plan.Comment
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All reactors at all locations in Japan are said to be in a "safe and stable" condition
edit: Scrub that. The entire announcement was:
The BBC ticker tape didn't show the whole text.A few people have been asking about the other nuclear plants (aside from Fukushima Daiichi). The IAEA says all units at Fukushima Daini, Onagawa and Tokai plants are in "safe and stable" condition.
So Fukushima Daiichi is still on-going. Not sure why this made breaking news.Last edited by TimberWolf; 15 March 2011, 15:09.Comment
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Japan crisis: nuclear workers exposed to 10,000 times more radiation than normal - Telegraph
Now what **** was saying how little radiation those workers who risked their lifes will get?!?!?!Comment
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Scaremongering bulltulip.Originally posted by AtW View Post
Average background radiation over a day (assuming you don't live in Cornwall) is 10 microsiliverts.
10,000 times this is 100 milisiliverts
About the same as 17 CT scans (tulip lets get rid of CT scans they are radiation monsters!!!!)
This should give you an idea of just how good that is all things considered:
http://xkcd.com/radiation/
If they are going to hospital with only 100 milisiliverts of radiation it's completely normal and there is nothing to see here. Back in your box AtW
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The 10,000 times figure is useless for a lot of reasons, not least because a time period isn't mentioned.Originally posted by Ardesco View PostScaremongering bulltulip.
Average background radiation over a day (assuming you don't live in Cornwall) is 10 microsiliverts.
10,000 times this is 100 milisiliverts
About the same as 17 CT scans (tulip lets get rid of CT scans they are radiation monsters!!!!)
This should give you an idea of just how good that is all things considered:
http://xkcd.com/radiation/
If they are going to hospital with only 100 milisiliverts of radiation it's completely normal and there is nothing to see here. Back in your box AtW
Natural background radiation is tiny from these isotopes, except after nuclear reactors go bang, the biggest natural sources being potassium-40, carbon-14 and uranium IIRC.were sloshing about in water containing iodine, caesium and cobalt 10,000 times the normal level
Anyway this article says though they suffered 'radiation burns', the dose they received was 180 millisieverts. Not enough to kill, but enough to risk increased probability of cancer (100 mSv in a year), if received in a whole year. In one dose it is worse. I don't imagine they will see any more action.Comment
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