Melted Fuel Under Fukushima is radiating at 530 sieverts per hour
I've been reading stories over the past 6 years on this situation and each time more facts seem to be revealed and the articles are less and less considered "fake News".
I know some of you guys here have some experience in this field...please chime in and maybe put this in perspective.
I know some of you guys here have some experience in this field...please chime in and maybe put this in perspective.
Additionally the contaminants are universally heavier than water. Absent intake by sea life, they will settle to the bottom as they disperse from the site, partnering with the volume dilution to reduce contaminant levels over time..
As for the article, pure propaganda with a lot of nonsense about its relationship to 'we' and the world beyond the local area with crap about radiation levels being highest ever measured as though that should scar everyone in the world. The reactors are not bombs or are even affecting the Japanese people with radiation any more than the natural background radiation. It is a mess and needs to be dealt with by eventual cleanup or quarantine for many thousands of years. Hard to say what future technology will be invented in even a few decades to handle such accidents which may possibly occur in the future as more nuclear power is needed and are overseen by the grandchildren of todays gentle snowflakes who need be overly protected in their mental lives.
http://newstarget.com/2017-02-16-fuku...
It seems the Japanese People have been kept in the dark about this.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wire...
This is just a good example of what Trump rails against, Don't spike the headlines with "Worse than expected" (worse than what WHO expected?). Just report the damn facts, like "Robot detects 500 Sieverts per hour in Containment vessel of Reactor Number 2" If they would do facts, and quiet coloring things their way, then it would be a lot better.
There is a lot of good information on 3 Mile Island, where basically the same thing happened for just as dumb a reason. It is worth looking into, but it was eventually cleaned up, even when they had no idea how they would do it. There are some pretty good videos as well on YT.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...
http://americanhistory.si.edu/tmi/ind...
I have a can of salmon I just contemplated with suspicion. The can does not say where the fish was caught.
Too bad past scare tactic antics of the control freak left has created trust issues with articles about the environment.
Perspective: The meltdown isn't any hotter (radiologically) than a spent fuel rod ready for reprocessing. It's in a far less desirable physical condition; meaning it's in irregularly shaped mess of metal and slag.
But for comparison, if a human took a swim in a expended fuel holding pool and was silly enough to dive down to take a look at the rods 40 ft below, the 530Sv/Hr of radiation that's making news would seem like a used-up tanning bulb by comparison!
Something like 50 Sv will kill over a couple of days.
“It is very telling about the situation in Fukushima. It is hard for everyone who is affected by the tsunami, who lost their homes and lost their families. But [in Fukushima], people are not able to go back home, they are unable to work because people won’t buy food from Fukushima, farmers cannot farm anymore. It is affecting people, and more people are dying because of that.
It is shocking… to see [how] many people have died in Fukushima,” the co-director of the documentary film ‘Alone in the Zone’ told RT.
However, in this day and age, or all ages for that matter, must look to see if there is any value here; it wouldn't stand in the first place if there wasn't Anything to consider.