More Bad News From Fukushima

PuceBaboon writes "Both Reuters and the BBC are carrying the story of an increase in radiation levels reported by Tepco for contaminated water leaking from storage tanks on site. When this leak was discovered almost two weeks ago, Tepco reported that the radiation level was 100-millisieverts. It now transpires that 100-millisieverts was the highest reading that the measuring equipment in use was capable of displaying. The latest readings (with upgraded equipment) are registering 1800-millisieverts which, according to both news sources, could prove fatal to anyone exposed to it for four hours. Coincidentally (and somewhat ironically), today is earthquake disaster prevention day in Japan, with safety drills taking place nationwide."

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Re:Wrong issue

[gweihir]

Now you are spouting BS. Pathetic. I think the problem for US citizens is that TMI did not have that hydrogen explosion back then (it was a very, very close thing), so you people have not though about running from a continent-wide fallout cloud. I was in Europe when Chernobyl blew up, and quite a few people grabbed their kids and did run, also because no reliable measurements were published and it was clear the authorities were either clueless or lying. Turns out both was true.