Kyodo Reports Radiation Eight Times Normal Near Fukushima Nuclear Plant, 1,000 Times Normal In Control Room

Per Reuters, which cites Kyodo news agency, the radiation levels near the main gate at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant are already 8 times normal. This probably supersedes a prior report by Kyodo according to which radiation could already have been released at the plant. That's pretty much a given the rather dramatic surge in ambient gamma waves. And Reuters has just released this unpleasant development: "Radiation levels in Fukushima Daiichi plant central control unit is 1,000 times normal, Kyodo says."

From Kyodo:

The amount of radiation reached around 1,000 times the normal level Saturday in the control room of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

The discovery suggests radioactive steam could spread around the facility operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Comments

[reader2010]

shit always happens on weekends. can you guys explain why?

[Bitch Tits]

The earth has learned the ways of its enemy, and chooses to attack during the feasting and resting periods, thus inflicting psychological damage as well.

Or, not.

[dark pools of soros]

do the vending machines have used panties from during the quake yet??  great gift for the collector and the connoisseur

[trav7777]

there was nothing inherently wrong with the RBMK reactor; in fact it opened the door to consumption of far more regular uranium.  It just needed to be managed, you know, carefully and shit.  It had a lower margin for error due to positive void coefficient and the dumbass Russians made a lot of mistakes that night.

The Japanese reactor isn't even remotely analogous and at this point their only problem is sinking heat from the core which is now noncritical.  People need to chill the fuck out.

There are still humans alive inside Chernobyl Dead Zone.  The flora and fauna are very healthy.  Radiation typically causes cancer in OLD people who are gonna die before long anyhow.  Those caught looking into the exposed Chernobyl core from 1km ended up dead quickly, sure, as did liquidators and others with acute exposure.  But, those merely exposed to fallout or the ambient radiation in the Zone really didn't fare that poorly.  They may die of cigarettes before any other cancer.

[dark pools of soros]

dupe 

[dark pools of soros]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1223-06.htm

and a more spirited report...

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

[tewkatz]

Fuel rods melting:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-quake-melting-idUSTKG00707420110312

[Heroic Couplet]

In the Republican Party, Karl Rove has ALWAYS been a proponent of nuclear power. I want to know where Karl Rove is this morning. He should be inside the nuclear power plant, helping. I bet his lily white ass ain't there.

Eight months ago, I challenged my Republican pals to ask Rush Limbaugh how he tells the difference between oil industry science and a position paper written by an oil industry shill. So far, none have done anything more than squirm and look embarrassed. So Rush, if you're reading here, just give us 1-5 on how you recognize science, and then 1-5 on how you recognize a shill.