Yeah this stuff is not looking good for them.

update:

superman has arrived and created a tornado over the plant. The tornado picked up the planet and he flew it into the sun.

all set.

So we're all dead now due to even MORE heat/radiation? Thanks Superman, jerk...

rofl :picard:

The ministry also said it had detected 1.17 million becquerels of radioactive iodine and 163,000 becquerels of cesium per kg of soil in samples collected in Iidate, Fukushima Prefecture, 40 km from the nuclear plant, in a survey it conducted Sunday.

I'm guessing that's not good?

UPDATE:

Extremely high radiation found in soil
Japanese authorities have detected a concentration of a radioactive substance 1,600 times higher than normal in soil at a village, 40 kilometers away from the troubled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

The disaster task force in Fukushima composed of the central and local governments surveyed radioactive substances in soil about 5 centimeters below the surface at 6 locations around the plant from last Friday through Tuesday.

The results announced on Wednesday show that 163,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-137 per kilogram of soil has been detected in Iitate Village, about 40 kilometers northwest of the plant.

Gakushuin University Professor Yasuyuki Muramatsu, an expert on radiation in the environment, says that normal levels of radioactive cesium-137 in soil are around 100 becquerels at most. The professor says he was surprised at the extremely high reading, which is 1,630 times higher than normal levels.

He warns that since radioactive cesium remains in the environment for about 30 years it could affect agricultural products for a long time. He is calling on the government to collect detailed data and come up with ways to deal with the

buy wind-energy stock eh?

plane tickets to japan are way cheap now.

thats what I'm looking forward too, cheap trip to japan I think I will thank you

they are still at least a grand. which is not cheap.

I know, but delta is already cutting flights and reporting losses

they will go down (i hope)

:lol:

Ruh roh, cesium not good.

wait wait wait

the sensors for the plant required external power and were not on some sort of internal battery system that would be switched on in the case of a power loss and backup failure?

what the ****

Critical systems don't include sensors apparently. Why would they want to run down their power operating something when they already know its going to tell them their reactor is too hot.

Well here's some feel good at least:

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...39_14899_n.jpg

"A picture our Helo took of one of the shelters we have been providing supplies to."

oh I don't know

maybe to help mitigate something like exactly what is happening now

having measurements of water vapor density, pressure levels, temperatures, flow rates, and radiation levels at various points within the structure you know

those kinds of important things

3 workers exposed to high radiation, 2 sustain possible burns | Kyodo News

Three workers were exposed to high-level radiation Thursday while laying cable at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and two of them were taken to hospital due to possible radiation burns to their feet, the nuclear safety agency and the plant operator said.

The three men in their 20s and 30s were exposed to radiation amounting to 173 to 180 millisieverts at around 12:10 p.m. while laying cable underground at the No. 3 reactor's turbine building.

The two hospitalized are workers of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s affiliated firm and had their feet under water while carrying out the work from 10 a.m., according to the utility known as TEPCO and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

The two, who were diagnosed with possible beta ray burns at a Fukushima hospital, will later be sent to the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba Prefecture, the agency said.

TEPCO said radioactive water may have seeped through the workers' radiation protective gear, causing radioactive materials in the water to stick to their skin. The burns are caused by direct exposure to beta rays, the utility added.

Following the incident, workers at the first and the basement floors of the No. 3 reactor's turbine building were told to evacuate the area.

The radiation levels the three were exposed to are this time lower than the maximum limit of 250 millisieverts set by the health ministry for workers tackling the ongoing emergency at the Fukushima plant. The accumulative amounts of radiation to which they have been exposed are also below this criteria, TEPCO said.

Usually in Japan, the upper radiation exposure limit for nuclear plant workers is set at 50 millisieverts per year, or 100 millisieverts within five years, but the level comes to a cumulative 100 millisieverts in the event of a crisis. The health ministry has further relaxed these standards to deal with the crisis in Fukushima, the worst in Japan.

With the latest exposure cases, the number of workers who have been exposed to radiation exceeding 100 millisieverts at the plant comes to 17, the operator said.

They were on internal backups. Problem is those internal backups have problems standing up to 8.9 earthquakes, tsunamis, hydrogen explosions and out of control fires.

Radioactive water is no big deal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MVol...eature=related

Team Fortress 2

Magnitude 7.0 - MYANMAR

seems so small in comparison now

thats insane

LGBR was right!!!

That's how it works when you don't have communists, jews or ******s ****ing up your society. Things get done quickly and properly.

I wonder if the road workers are Unionized.

Holy ****, that's impressive

NEWS ADVISORY: Reactor vessel of Fukushima plant No. 3 unit may have been damaged: Gov't panel

NEWS ADVISORY: U.S. forces to provide water to cool Fukushima plant: Defense chief Kitazawa

NEWS ADVISORY: Gov't prods people within 30 km of nuke plant to voluntarily leave: Edano


Also hearing this may be upgraded to a level 6 which is worse than TMI but not as bad as Chernobyl which was lvl 7.

10,035 deaths and 17,443 missing

errting ok!

I wonder if the road workers are underlayment.

yeah it seems they are saying the reactor core has a crack in it....doesn't seem good

They are saying that the radioactive water could come from a crack, but all of the air radiation sensors and pressure sensors say there is no crack. The water also could have come from the cooling pond above.


Also, the radiation limit for workers is 250 millisiervets. 17 people have over 100 and the 3 people exposed and went to the hospital......the highest was at 183.

They are not going to have lifetime damage or die from their exposure.....they just can't work on the reactor anymore.

The media and their fearmongering RADIATION AT 10,000 TIMES SAFE LEVELS!!!! How about we set the safe level at 0 then they can report RADIATION AT INFINITE/UNDEFINED LEVELS!!!!

interesting:
Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring
cliffs: "Everything's fine! Nothing is ruined."

yeah, 10,000+ people died...everythings fine

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG.....

TOKYO (AP) - A suspected breach in the core of a reactor at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant could mean more serious radioactive contamination, Japanese officials revealed Friday, as the prime minister called the country's ongoing fight to stabilize the plant "very grave and serious." A somber Prime Minister Naoto Kan sounded a pessimistic note at a briefing hours after nuclear safety officials announced what could be a major setback in the urgent mission to stop the plant from leaking radiation, two weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami disabled it.

"The situation today at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant is still very grave and serious. We must remain vigilant," Kan said. "We are not in a position where we can be optimistic. We must treat every development with the utmost care."

Update on these guys:

The National Institute of Radiological Sciences, where the three arrived earlier in the day for highly specialized treatment, said the two were exposed to 2 to 6 sieverts of radiation below their ankles, whereas exposure to 250 millisieverts is the limit set for workers dealing with the ongoing crisis, the worst in Japan's history.
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According to Wikipedia, these guys have a 5-50% chance of dying.

what I just read is that the burns they got were basically akin to bad sunburns

Well, at least that amount of sieverts was highly localized. They may suffer some pretty nasty effects on their feet, but they won't die, and they won't suffer internal organ damage and whatnot.

But yeah, that is a ****load of dosage to seep out.