Earthquake in Japan....9.0...ouch!

I know exactly what you mean about wondering what you will wake up to...for the first time in the past few days I've been checking the news on my phone as soon as I wake up.

Weirdly I found out about the earthquake by looking at GD on here.

Getting back to the point, what I can't understand is people saying that they aren't telling the whole truth and being evasive...are they hiding something or do they truly not know what's going on?

Haven't they asked the USA and IAEA for help? Surely it's a worldwide response now, they shouldn't be able to hush anything up at this stage...?
 
So, the radiation levels were 800 ish right after the blast(6am there), then down to 300(7am ish) over an hour or so, and as of 8.31 they are up to over 8000mSv and thats at the main gate not right above the plant?
Tepco has confirmed that number apparently, 8217 mSv.
 
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Hmm, not looking good but Japs have the brains to solve this. No point in making people panic at this stage, they have had enough to worry about.

Drunkenmaster, did you say you worked in the Nuclear field? You seem to know a lot and posted the most in here?
 
drunkenmaster said:
So, the radiation levels were 800 ish right after the blast(6am there), then down to 300(7am ish) over an hour or so, and as of 8.31 they are up to over 8000mSv and thats at the main gate not right above the plant?
Tepco has confirmed that number apparently, 8217 mSv.
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Am I missing something or is that not a fatal dose?
 
The average total dose rate for the USA is 360 mrem a year. It has been estimated that your chance of dying from cancer increases 10% if you accumulate a total of 250,000 mrem. This would be over 3,000 mrem a year over 80 years, for example. This estimates presumably assume a linear risk factor between dose and the chance of getting cancer, and there are those who now dispute such assumptions, which means the risks from low levels of radiation may be overstated.

A single dose of around 450 R (450,000 mR) is usually considered produce death in 50% of the cases.


In other countries, the SI unit for dose (Sieverts) is used (1 Rem = .01 Sieverts).

http://www.nucleartourist.com/systems/rad.htm
 
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Burned_Alive said:
Looking at the radiation poisoning exposure rates here (8000mSv = 8Sv
..if you were actually exposed to that much radiation, you wouldn't be in great shape..
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You can say that again :D

1 Sv causes nausea, 2-5 Sv causes epilation or hair loss, haemorrhage and will cause death in many cases. More than 3 Sv will lead to LD 50/30 or death in 50% of cases within 30 days, and over 6 Sv survival is unlikely
 
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gamma-radiation-fukushima-downwind-ibaraki-disclosed-30-times-above-normal

Has a link to a site where you can get real-time readings of radiation levels around Japan, which is unfortunately getting utterly hammered at the minute with traffic.

Has pictures of recent readings.

...And the data is stunning: based on a N, NE and NNE wind direction (where it originates), meaning all coming from Fukushima, with a normal reading in the 80 nGy/h range, the city of Kounosu Naka is at 3,024, Kadobe Naka is at 2,416, Isobe Hitachioota is at 1,213 and many others are in the mid to upper triple digit range! Again, this is based on wind coming out of Fukushima and ultimately headed toward the capital. Indicatively, normal terrestrial plus cosmic gamma radiation is about 80 nGy/h.
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That doesn't sound very healthy.

Edit: Sorry, I must be half awake, I just realised I opened the link from this thread in the first place.
 
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