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Xeni Jardin at 8:04 PM Monday, Apr 25, 2011
In Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers have begun "the unprecedented and potentially risky measure" of flooding the containment vessels of three troubled Fukushima nuclear reactors with water. The Asahi Shimbun reports that this is the first known attempt ever in the world to saturate an entire containment vessel with water in order to cool the pressure vessels inside, and in turn, cool the reactor cores within.
In related news, TEPCO has released to the public for the first time a map of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant detailing radiation levels throughout the site.
Mike Oxlong wrote:MEXT has released a new map showing how much radiation has been accumulated around Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant...
Mulboyne wrote:
Farmers anti-nuclear power protest.
cstaylor wrote:Get a rope...![]()
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27collusion.html?ref=global-home
Mike Oxlong wrote:Fukushima: Just How Dangerous Is Radiation?
gaijinpunch wrote:Anyone know of any "from Tokyo" volunteer efforts? Looking to go for a couple of days during G-Week. Most of the Japanese ones are full (that I've found) or require you to get there on your own. Would preferrably like to buy some supplies, jump on a bus, and wake up in the disaster area, complete with really painful back from the bus.
Mulboyne wrote:[dm]xif1ca[/dm]
Japan's Thank You to America video which aired on CNN
Mulboyne wrote:[dm]xif1ca[/dm]
Japan's Thank You to America video which aired on CNN
Kyodo News wrote:Japan to scrap workers' annual radiation dose limit at normal times
The health ministry plans to scrap the annual radiation dose limit for nuclear power plant workers at normal times for the meantime to secure enough workers for maintenance and checkups of nuclear power plants other than the crisis-hit Fukushima power station, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.
Under Japanese law, nuclear workers cannot be exposed to more than 50 millisieverts in one year and more than 100 millisieverts over five years.
The ministry, however, is expected to maintain the 100-millisievert rule, as there is medical evidence that exposure to radiation exceeding 100 millisieverts could increase the risk of developing leukemia and cancer, according to the sources.
Japan Times wrote:Tepco woman took three times radiation limit
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that one of its female employees at the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was exposed to radiation exceeding three times the legal limit of 5 millisieverts in a three-month period.
Kyodo News wrote:Minute amount of radioactive substances found in breast milk of 7
A minute amount of radioactive substances have been found in breast milk of seven women in a survey covering 23 women in Tokyo and four other prefectures, including Fukushima and its neighboring Ibaraki, the health ministry said Saturday.
cstaylor wrote::glow:
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/88713.html
No real information in this news blurb. Was it a random sampling? Or just people presumed to have been exposed?
Coligny wrote:Nukular advisor for the Japanese Prime minister is GTFO
Yokohammer wrote:The Japanese Embassy in France has officially complained about a satirical French TV show –]http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/04/30/japanese-government-complains-after-french-tv-show-jokes-about-march-11-disaster/[/URL]
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Maybe I'm a sick bastard but some of that looks pretty funny to me.
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