Published: July 4th, 2012 at 1:47 pm ET
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Fukushima Watch: At Fukushima Daini, It’s Safer Inside Than Outside
Wall Street Journal – Japan Real Time
By Mitsuru Obe
July 4, 2012, 10:51 PM JST
At the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, it may be safer inside the reactor buildings than it is outside them.That’s because Daini is just 10 kilometers south of Fukushima Daiichi, the site of Japan’s biggest nuclear accident. And since the area still receives lots of radioactive fallout from Fukushima Daiichi, radiation exposure is less inside the thick-walled reactor buildings than it is out in the compound.
JRT, which went on a media tour of Daini on Wednesday, found that background radiation levels in the plant compound were around 0.5 to 1.0 microsieverts per hour — some 16 to 33 times higher than prior to the March 2011 accident.
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Published: July 4th, 2012 at 1:47 pm ET
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So it's too hot to work there. The experienced employees will either die, or quit. No one with credentials will move there to work. So that leaves the less experienced.
That sounds like a problem.
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@Time Is Short: ongoing lose of "…experienced employees…leaves the less experienced." has long been a major issue. One emergency services manager was lamenting how his crew's reached their limit in rad-exposure, leaving no one on his team.
The Russians anticipated this early on during the Chernobyl catastrophe and simply conscripted military personnel to run in with stopwatches and shovels. The losses were horrifying. Other than such an effort today, there really isn't much-else to do. It's not likely any advanced mechanization (robots) will be ready for the remediation effort, for another decade or longer.
We need to undertake three concurrent efforts: First, remove the populations (in ever-expanding concentric regions) of Asia to safe zones. (This region is now the most heavily inundated with radiative contaminants.) Second, undertake a global-wide technology program (robots and support technology) that will develop high radiation environment equipment for cleanup. Third, undertake a global-wide effort to move humans (and other organic lifeforms) into sustainable environments in outer space. If there's a chance we cannot put a stop to these meltdown/emissions (and it's looking grim), the longer we delay, the less resources will be available when these steps are eventually taken…
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For the first time in our specie's history, we now find ourselves facing an enemy that intends to (mindlessly) finish us all off. We would be well advised to put our differences aside and assess our options, before they're no longer viable…
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"…in the plant (Daini), …33 times higher than prior to March 2011"
Think about that for just a second.
You're inside a Nuclear Plant and the radiation is 33 times more than it was a year ago which is considered 'safer' (less hazardous) than being outside at this time.
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Dang. Now everyone will want a reactor building to live in.
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I know. I was thinking of an abandoned silo. Maybe I can workout a deal with the city and move the kids-and-cats into the local sewer; splice-into some underground cable/power runs and we'll be set! Yeah…nothing like 'progress' in the twenty-first century…
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You made me think. In the 50's magazines such as Pop Science, Pop Mechanics painted glowing pictures of what life would be like in the 21st century. Boy, were they ever wrong.
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Well, they had the "glowing" part right…
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They said we would have fully automated homes with robot servants, flying cars. Oh, wait, we have that when the throttle sticks on your Toyota,
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fly by wire…
the seat of your pants…
in the ointment…
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AS, FD, WftC…thanks for the hearty laugh…needed that…
FD, many those 'pop science' and Jetsons predictions have and will come true. Just look at the gadgets and systems that we use daily…The bit that wasn't on the mark was the bit that made us imagine that the planet could sustain that type and level of consumption, waste and environmental degradation. And that it'd be the 'ordinary people' who got to enjoy all those 'techno-advances' INTO THE SHINING FUTURE. It won't. It'll be the elite and the 'chosen few' who get the personal remediation pills and isolated bunker access…
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more like Blade Runner than Jetsons.
I wonder if they can make an anti gravity platform now with the discovery of the Higgs Boson? 130 times the mass of the proton, energy too cheap to meter? sorry, I lapse into Jetsonian Utopeanism rather than BladdRunneresque diatribe.
looking at those figures. inside the plant is 1mivroSv/r. X24#360(~8000hrs), around 8milliSv/r. that's double the legal limit (I might be a bit loose here), 8 times the pre Fuku Japansese limit of 1mSv for civilians, but they made that 20mSv.
so they should evacuate people INTO nuclear reactor facilities logically?
of course we need more of them, just to be safe.
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anti gravity platform, that is, to levitate #4 fuel pool and bring the melt outs back from half way to Hades, and into the Sun.
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It does not matter how much radiation the plant receives they must maintain at all costs or we will have four more reactors in melt down, I believe it will take 5 years to cool fuel in reactors and SFP, correct me if I am wrong.
The people who are running the plant are modern day kamikazes and should be held in high regard as their is a good possibility they are going to die
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When it runs it runs…..prays to everyone……
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WHAT WE HAVE HERE
"What we have here," said NOAH, "is a business that kills their customers. What a business model."
"Tell that to MONSTERSANTO", someone replied in the audience.
- 2012 Conference discussing Remediation Protocols
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