Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began

April 28th, 2011

Update: Look At The URL On This One

Reader TO mentioned this:

www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tokyo-water-radiation-falls-to-zero-for-first-time-since-crisis.html

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Via: Bloomberg:

Radiation readings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi station rose to the highest since an earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems, impeding efforts to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Two robots sent into the reactor No. 1 building at the plant yesterday took readings as high as 1,120 millisierverts of radiation per hour, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at Tokyo Electric Power Co., said today. That’s more than four times the annual dose permitted to nuclear workers at the stricken plant.

Radiation from the station, where four of six reactors have been damaged by explosions, has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and contaminated farmland and drinking water. A plan to flood the containment vessel of reactor No. 1 with more water to speed up emergency cooling efforts announced yesterday by the utility known as Tepco may not be possible now.

“Tepco must figure out the source of high radiation,” said Hironobu Unesaki, a nuclear engineering professor at Kyoto University. “If it’s from contaminated water leaking from inside the reactor, Tepco’s so-called water tomb may be jeopardized because flooding the containment vessel will result in more radiation in the building.”

3 Responses to “Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began”

  1. williamspd says:

    Pretty soon, when this thing emerges from the underside of the containment and burns through the crust down to the mantle, they won’t be able to call it ‘the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl’ any more.

  2. tochigi says:

    this whole “flood the containment vessel to cool the reactor” thing is such utter desperation. and yet Japanese media coverage of this madness along with the rising radioactivity measurements is minimal. “move along, nothing to see here”

  3. Eileen says:

    Yah, I was starting to think that the Fukushima Reactor disaster was falling off the radar.
    Let’s SAVE SOME FACE.
    I just watched this from D.net
    http://dprogram.net/2011/04/27/fukushima-and-chernobyl-the-art-of-the-cover-up/
    My computer crashed while trying to watch a photo show of Japan from Time Magazine. Crashed on 4 of 143 or so pictures. Go figure. I don’t think its my computer. Yes, when you can’t watch and evaluate for yourself, the TPTB want to ensure you think its time to move along, nothing to see here.
    I can believe that these nimrods are letting radioactivity spew across the universe. But oh, no worries here. Just don’t go outside when its raining, and please, grow all your food under a tarp for the next 600 years.

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