Published: January 9th, 2012 at 9:22 am ET
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TEPCO Press Release, Jan. 9, 2012:
At 2:22 pm today, at the Spent Sludge Storage Facility(*) of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F), a partner company’s worker who had been engaged in concrete placement work reported his physical disorder. He was carried to the emergency medical room of 1F’s Unit 5/6 and received medical treatment. Because he was in cardiopulmonary arrest, he was carried from 1F to Iwaki Kyouritsu Hospital at 3:25 pm.
For reference, no radioactive materials were found to be attached to the worker’s body.
* Spent Sludge Storage Facility
The facility to store radioactive waste (spent sludge), which is produced during the process of accumulated water treatment, on a temporary basis.
Published: January 9th, 2012 at 9:22 am ET
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“no radioactive materials were found to be attached to the worker’s body.”
I guess they got his boots off.
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could be gamma exposure … or could be internal emitters (esp. alpha)
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Agreed. I figured it was some kind of translation anomaly, hence my flippant reply. Serious stuff though.
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Radiation affects the heart, specifically with cesium contamination.
You could be clean on the outside, but be deader than a door nail from cesium intake into the heart muscle.
Best to do an autopsy and send the heart out to a radiation detection lab that can test for cesium radiation, in Bq/kg.
Anything over 50 Bq/kg is deadly according to Russian researcher, especially in kids.
Chernobyl Heart Movie; How Children Are Affected; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/chernobyl-heart-movie-how-children-are.html
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It is extremely hard to work in such an overall and mask. If not radiation kills them, exhaustion will.
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Guess worker was not smiling or “Happy”….
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Your a great psychologist jec. That is the secret to longevity. Smile away the pain. Where I come from students paid a fortune to learn psychology in college. They spent 8 long years, arguably the best years of their lives learning the importance of having an understanding of psychology. Finally, we and all humanity are reaping the rewards of having these geniuses on site. On the count of three everyone smile away your problems. 1…….2……..smile
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Yes, and plutonium is good for you, according to Japanese experts.
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hbjon, I think jec was being sarcastic about earlier reports Japanese “experts” were telling people if they were only more happy, the radiation wouldn’t be harmful. Were you responding to that? I’m sure that was the intent behind the comment — to poke fun at the ridiculous assertions just being happy will make it all go away ….
Or maybe I mis-read your intention in posting. If so, apology ….
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I don’t even know what is ridiculous anymore. When the doctors tell people who have cancer that it was caused by stress, maybe that is where the absurdity starts. Unless we change the meanings of words, it is all ridiculous. Do words have meaning? What are your goals in life? What are your intentions? Mine have no hidden agenda. I mean no offense to anyone. Just trying to stimulate conversation. What is the opposite of stress? Smiling? Relaxing? Having money in your pocket? Love? I look for the honesty, wisdom, and knowledge in everything I see and hear. That is why I like to read what the good folks here on enenews have to say.
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Environmental impact caused by the nuclear power accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station: As of January 6
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1325841950P.pdf
Overview of the status of countermeasures at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1-4 (Dec. 28th – Jan. 5th Refer to the attached table for details of 1-5)
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1325821511P.pdf
Overview of the status of countermeasures at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1-4 (Dec. 22nd – 27th Refer to the attached table for details of 1-5)
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1325041468P.pdf
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@tacomagroove, good overview reports! Lots of work to find the information. Bottomline, Japan authorities can measure areas, but each person needs to carry a recording dosimeter on their person. Too many variables and hot spots around with the materials thrown out of the reactors.
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http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/distribution_map_around_FukushimaNPP/
http://www.nsc.go.jp/nsc_mnt/120105_2.pdf
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Above link is recent radionuclide sampling in Fukushima prefecture.
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Radioactivity Covering 22 prefectures.
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/1910/2011/11/1910_1125_2.pdf
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Daily drinking water contamination levels.
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/monitoring_by_prefecture_drinking_water/index.html
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Oceanic samples:
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/monitoring_around_FukushimaNPP_sea/
Oceanic (seafloor samples):
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/monitoring_around_FukushimaNPP_sea/
(Prime Minister of Japan and his cabinet) shipment/intake restriction, inspection of radioactive material in food and water, message to farm producer (Japanese)→ http://www.kantei.go.jp/saigai/syokuhin.html
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Interim report on radioactive substances distribution in forest (Japanese)→http://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/press/hozen/110930.html ・Survey on levels of radiological cesium in male flowers of cedar trees: Interim report(Japanese)→http://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/press/hozen/111227.html
By mext:
Total amount I-131and Cs-137 released to the environment through the air during the period from March 11 to April 5 estimated by Japan Atomic Energy Agency : I-131: 1.3E17Bq Cs-137: 1.1E16Bq
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@Tacomagroove
an off-topic link or two here and there is fine
let’s keep things a little more on the subject matter of the news report
especially in the first 5-10 comments
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Howdy, Taco! These reports would be MUCH appreciated in the general discussion thread … way easier to find for those of us checking in on phones waiting to get back to the hard drives. TY!
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Or put this valuable info here:
“FORUM: Post Your Radiation Monitoring Data Here”.
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“No radioactive materials found attached to body”- can we trust this statement? or it is also made by those trying to conceal the fact from the very beginning?
The Japanese people are not happy.
Many realize a significant portion of Japanese soil is not suitable for habitation. Just last October a leaked Tepco documented indicated the total amount of plutonium and neptunium emitted from the plant. This stuff sticks around for millions of years…
If you haven’t seen the dispersion maps for plutonium they are published here:
http://www.datapoke.org/blog/89/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-p-239-and-np-239-atmospheric-dispersion/
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