The future of Nuclear power

[BlasterBates]

If it was me life expectancy about 80, whether I die at 82 or 80 doesn't make a whole lot of difference to be honest. Let's put it this way, it wouldn't be waking up in a "cold sweat" at night.

[AtW]

If it was me life expectancy about 80, whether I die at 82 or 80 doesn't make a whole lot of difference to be honest. Let's put it this way, it wouldn't be waking up in a "cold sweat" at night.

How in your right mind you can assume that workers there will lose only 2 years of their lifes??!?! Some of them will be lucky to live next 2 years, that I say on the basis of Chernobyl disaster which this one is much worse even though defensive measures are better.

[BlasterBates]

At Chernobyl they were subjected to at least 10 times the levels of the Japanese, some of them more like 100 times, that is indeed deadly. If you are subjected to levels 10 times the level they are subjected to now then yes they may indeed die in 2 years. However they haven't been, so provided that these workers don't work in a Nuclear power plant for the rest of their lives, then their life expectancy won't be shortened at all. The longterm effects of radiation are accumulative so you can have a higher dose now and then stop. From what I understand the highest dose that one worker got was 100 millSieverts. In CHernobyl the liquidators received beween 1000 and 14000.

[TimberWolf]

How in your right mind you can assume that workers there will lose only 2 years of their lifes??!?! Some of them will be lucky to live next 2 years, that I say on the basis of Chernobyl disaster which this one is much worse even though defensive measures are better.

I heard they were sending old people in. I agree with you about radiation levels, I think it's a given that will be covered up, as they always are.

[BlasterBates]

I heard they were sending old people in. I agree with you about radiation levels, I think it's a given that will be covered up, as they always are.

But don't you think the vomiting, body swelling up and hair falling out might not be a bit of a give away?

[EternalOptimist]

But don't you think the vomiting, body swelling up and hair falling out might not be a bit of a give away?

hey. fook off with that.

it was the lager

[shaunbhoy]

But don't you think the vomiting, body swelling up and hair falling out might not be a bit of a give away?

So a lot like binge-drinking then?

[TimberWolf]

But don't you think the vomiting, body swelling up and hair falling out might not be a bit of a give away?

Those symptoms appear over 2 Sv within an hour, whereas their exposure limits are much less than that magnitude for an entire year. There's a big gulf there.

[doodab]

So a lot like binge-drinking then?

Does binge drinking make your hair fall out?

[TimberWolf]

But don't you think the vomiting, body swelling up and hair falling out might not be a bit of a give away?

I'm not basing my views on the following, or believe TEPCO are unique in hiding this kind of information, which I would assume is endemic to the nuclear power industry (and most other industry for that matter), but here is a little about their past record:

On August 29, 2002, the government of Japan revealed that TEPCO was guilty of false reporting in routine governmental inspection of its nuclear plants and systematic concealment of plant safety incidents. All seventeen of its boiling-water reactors were shut down for inspection as a result. TEPCO's chairman Hiroshi Araki, President Nobuya Minami, Vice-President Toshiaki Enomoto, as well as the advisers Shō Nasu and Gaishi Hiraiwa stepped-down by September 30, 2002.[7] The utility "eventually admitted to two hundred occasions over more than two decades between 1977 and 2002, involving the submission of false technical data to authorities".[8] Upon taking over leadership responsibilities, TEPCO's new president issued a public commitment that the company would take all the countermeasures necessary to prevent fraud and restore the nation's confidence. By the end of 2005, generation at suspended plants had been restarted, with government approval.
In 2007, however, the company announced to the public that an internal investigation had revealed a large number of unreported incidents. These included an unexpected unit criticality in 1978 and additional systematic false reporting, which had not been uncovered during the 2002 inquiry. Along with scandals at other Japanese electric companies, this failure to ensure corporate compliance resulted in strong public criticism of Japan's electric power industry and the nation's nuclear energy policy. Again, the company made no effort to identify those responsible.
Tokyo Electric Power Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia