Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 3, 2011 @02:37AM from the don't-keep-that-all-bottled-up dept.

SillySnake writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said it had found a crack in the pit at its No.2 reactor in Fukushima, generating readings 1,000 millisieverts of radiation per hour in the air inside the pit. 'With radiation levels rising in the seawater near the plant, we have been trying to confirm the reason why, and in that context, this could be one source,' said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), said on Saturday." Also of interest: Cryptome is featuring high-res photos of the reactor site, taken by UAV.

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A link to high-res photo by skyr1de · 2011-04-03 02:58 · Score: -1, Troll

Here: click here
This is actually very bad by skyr1de · 2011-04-03 03:13 · Score: -1, Troll

They now suspect that steel pressure vessel was compromised.as well. Oh boy. Look at recent radiation report Scary stuff....
Re:Incompetence by antifoidulus · 2011-04-03 03:44 · Score: -1, Troll

Being an engineer doesn't lend itself to being a kamikaze too.

Really? In my experience being an engineer means you have no life.

Thank you, Thank you, I'll be here all night because my boss over promised and I'm the one who has to pick up the slack.

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