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Radioactive Water Found In Two Reactor Buildings

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hot-shower-won't-help dept.

RedEaredSlider writes "Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it detected several kinds of radioactive material in the water on the floor of reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The isotopes found in the water were cobalt-76, technetium-99, silver-108, iodine-131, iodine-134, four isotopes of cesium, barium-140 and lanthanum-140. All have half-lives measured in hours or days, with the exception of cesium-137."

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  1. Have any of the workers developed superpowers? by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can keep your sieverts. I prefer to measure radiation by the level of socially-isolating, mutated superpowers that it produces. Are any of the plant workers brooding yet, or developing secret identities, or lamenting how society has shunned them, or experiencing montage sequences where they learn how to use their new powers?

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:Have any of the workers developed superpowers? by matt_gaia · · Score: 5, Funny

      I propose a different measurement: How many Godzilla's will this produce?

      And not the 1998, Matthew-Broderick-starring Godzilla either, because, let's face it... that Godzilla sucked.

  2. I heard it on TV! by joocemann · · Score: 2, Funny

    They said we're all gonna dieeeeee!!!!!

    But apparently I find out how, after these commercials... damnit! Now I gotta hang around this channel all day!

  3. Re:you don't say! by gilleain · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm interested in hearing objective news

    No, you're interested in news reinforcing your subjective opinion; just like everybody else.

    I'm interested in hearing news that reinforces my opinion that I don't like reinforcing my opinions. It's hard to find, though.

  4. Re:Radioactivity? by sjames · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would say the best way to contain the threat is to not go fishing in the reactor building.