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Originally posted by jadedANDcynical
Originally posted by musashi9
Take off your tin hats people. Pumping fear when there is noting to be fearful of.
You people have been saying this for months now and guess what? there is no evidence for dangers to large populations.
Yawn!.
You do understand that it will take decades to comprehend the scale of what we are at the beginning of do you not?
NISA Mentions "Neptunium-239" in August 29 Press Conference
Now this is very curious.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA)'s daily press conference is ongoing (August 29). The NISA spokesman Moriyama mentions neptunium-239's conversion ratio to plutonium-239 as 1 to 1.
According to the June 6 estimate by the NISA:
Plutonium-239: 3.2×10^9
Neptunium-239: 7.6×10^13
So, now it is:
Plutonium-239: 7.6 x 10^13, or 76,000,000,000,000 or 76 terabecquerels
The amount of plutonium-239 has increased 23,000-fold.
source
Yep, good stuff for certain.
Originally posted by musashi9
Take off your tin hats people. Pumping fear when there is noting to be fearful of.
You people have been saying this for months now and guess what? there is no evidence for dangers to large populations.
Yawn!.
Originally posted by CranialSponge
Ugh...
They say 10,000 millisieverts an hour...?
uh huh... so you know that probably means the real number is around 20,000.
The Japan nuclear industry isn't known for it's "telling the whole truth" (or an other country's nuclear industry for that matter).
Hence the "it's the highest our detectors can read" wiggle roomexcusestatement.
Just sayin'
Nuke leak exceeds Hiroshima
By Mari Yamaguchi
Associated Press
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency supplied the estimate at a parliamentary panel's request. But, it noted, a simple comparison between an instantaneous bomb blast and a long-term leak is impossible and the results could be "irrelevant.
The report said the damaged plant had released 15,000 terabecquerels of cesium-137, which lingers for decades and could cause cancer, compared with the 89 terabecquerels released by the U.S. uranium bomb.
The Hiroshima bomb claimed most of its victims in the intense heat wave and neutron rays from a midair nuclear explosion and the highly radioactive fallout. No one has died from radiation leaks from the Fukushima plant, where an explosion from hydrogen buildup damaged reactor buildings
Well BobAtHome, then enlighten me exactly what can be done to reverse what has happened? To lessen the effects of exposure? At this point nothing can be done, it's too late. We need to move on and figure out a solution for the future instead of mingling in the past of the present situation.
I think you fail to see that moving forward does not mean staying in the same place or moving back. Our nature is to learn from mistakes. We made a HUGE one. a few of them, so let's learn to better the future instead of dwelling on how bad everything seems to be.
Originally posted by Ghost375
So that website says TEPCO announced this?
Then why no link to any press release from TEPCO?
show me
I'm thinking this is just a hoax. Unless someone wants to prove me wrong, by showing where on that list of press releases it says otherwise.
"...yesterday, TEPCO said it detected the highest radiation levels to date!!! ...recording 10,000 millisieverts an hour-- the maximum level the devices can even measure..."
Originally posted by sonnny1
reply to post by Ghost375
Link
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has detected 10,000 millisieverts of radioactivity per hour at the plant. The level is the highest detected there since the nuclear accident in March.
Workers of Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, on Monday measured the extremely high level of radioactivity near pipes at the bottom of a duct between the No.1 and neighboring No.2 reactor buildings.
According to the science ministry's brochure, if a human received 10,000 millisieverts, they would likely die within a week or two.
TEPCO has restricted access to the site and the surrounding area.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Good enough,or does the leak have to be today?
Originally posted by Ghost375
Originally posted by sonnny1
reply to post by Ghost375
Link
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has detected 10,000 millisieverts of radioactivity per hour at the plant. The level is the highest detected there since the nuclear accident in March.
Workers of Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, on Monday measured the extremely high level of radioactivity near pipes at the bottom of a duct between the No.1 and neighboring No.2 reactor buildings.
According to the science ministry's brochure, if a human received 10,000 millisieverts, they would likely die within a week or two.
TEPCO has restricted access to the site and the surrounding area.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Good enough,or does the leak have to be today?
Again, I have good reason to question the validity of that news source. Why no press release direct from TEPCO?
Who should I believe? TEPCO's website? or the website saying they are getting information from TEPCO?
The red spots in this image from a gamma camera show areas outside the Fukushima plant where radiation exceeds 10 sieverts per hour, which can be almost instantly lethal. (Credit: Tepco)