NHK confirms 10 million times usual levels in reactor No. 2 (VIDEO)

Published: March 27th, 2011 at 1:12 am ET
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NHK, March 27, 2011 at 1:00 am EDT:

UPDATE HERE: TEPCO believes reactors No. 1, 2, and 3 are breached and leaking radioactive liquid

AND HERE: Japan NOT testing for Plutonium in highly radioactive water (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd2ddhWwnXU

Published: March 27th, 2011 at 1:12 am ET
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Report: Radioactivity at 10 MILLION times usual levels at No. 2 reactor — Workers evacuated March 27, 2011
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radegan

March 27, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Ooops! NOW it’s only 10,000 times hotter than they thought, not 10 million. Sorry, pushed wrong button on Geiger counter and read wrong scale. Gosh, I feel so much safer.

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ConradN

March 27, 2011 at 3:24 pm

Actually, the reading is the same (1000mSv/h): they’ve just changed their comparison basis!
Initally, they compared the reading with the radiation background in daily life (slightly above 100nanoSv/h), so the ratio indeed was 10 millions.
Now they’ve moved their comparison basis to some other value about 100microSv/h (I don’t know where it comes from), and suddenly you’re only 10,000 times above normal!
Looks like they’re playing with the numbers, but the radioactivity level remains awfully high

Larry

March 27, 2011 at 3:59 pm

So when are they coming here to the FEMA camps? We can help them start over, if they bring all their money and rebuild here! It would be a good thing for both our nations. To bury the hatchet, and move on a one people. We as the USA need to help them start over.

xdrfox

March 27, 2011 at 4:07 pm

And that 10,000 sounds better to the public then 10,000,000 !

Jack

March 27, 2011 at 4:41 pm

Yes, Larry,
It is just wincingly hard to take, that the world leader in Robotics
for all these years only managed to hype a toy-robo-dog, and the
“human-like” face-display interactive type of proposed “servant”
robot, BUT NOT a BASIC, PRACTICAL HIGH-TEMP, High Radiation
no-frills, actually USEFUL repair-robot, in anticipation of this crisis.

March 27, 2011 at 4:42 pm

Actually, it’s even higher than that (see http://enenews.com/tepco-official-admitted-radioactivity-2-exceeded-limit-gauge-video): the guy who went and did the measurement saw his counter go off-scale, understood the danger and immediately got the heck out of there!
So at the moment when I’m writing, they only know that the activity is higher than 1000mSv/hr. Could be 2000, 3000 or more, no one seems to have a clue yet…

March 28, 2011 at 12:20 am

Sounds as if they had readings from being near to a open reactor !

March 28, 2011 at 2:12 am

@xdrfox.
Nop, it’s “just” a radioactive leak, but a rather bad one. Sustaining these dose rates for only a few hours would be life-threatening for the workers on-site, so they have to stop all engineering work in this building until they can get rid of this “puddle”