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Fukushima Daiichi Water Leak Raised To Level 3 Severity
AmiMoJo writes "Japan's nuclear regulators have raised the level of severity of the radioactive water leak from a tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It is now a level-3 serious incident. The revision from level 1 is based on estimates of the volume of radioactive substances leaked. The International Atomic Energy Agency supports the revision. They say the tank leak can be assessed separately from the Fukushima Daiichi crisis as a level 3 incident. Japanese experienced a level-3 nuclear event in 1997 with the fire and explosions at a fuel reprocessing plant in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture. 37 workers there were exposed to the leaked radioactive substances."
Holy crap! That's 1/10^4 Hiroshimas.
Five of them became Power Rangers.
Workers must take the power!
Workers at Fukushima appear to be absorbing power, does that count?
Or at least a Godzilla reference in responses to this article. Here's one now!
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
I learned about a new keyboard shortcut "Ctrl+Shift+T". It's kind of like the "Ctrl+Z" of radioactive water leak disasters.
The G
They had a worse incident where they were carrying uranium in a bucket and it went super-critical in 1999. That was a level 4. 2 people died of multiple organ failure.
Worst trick-or-treat candy ever.
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