Japanese Fallout Forecast

[James48843]

You could order this but they have orders so backed up that they have quit taking new orders.

http://www.gammascout.com/

Can you say "invest in geiger counter related business"?

May be too late now.

They can't make enough of them.

I bet the chips come from the chip factory region in northern Japan.

I hate when that happens.

 

[Silverbird]

TEPCO offers compensation to nearby towns - but the amount is so small no one's taking.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/japan.nuclear.money/index.html?hpt=T1#

[and if they keep up these PR goofs they are only going to get people more angry!]

 

[James48843]

New information- CNN confirms THREE reactors totally melted down.

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday.
The nuclear group's new evaluation, released Monday, goes further than previous statements in describing the extent of the damage caused by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
The announcement will not change plans for how to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the agency said.
Reactors 1, 2 and 3 experienced a full meltdown, it said.

More:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/a...Top+Stories)&utm_content=Google+International

 

[James48843]

The radiation is much worse than previously disclosed:

Here is the transcript from yesterdays show:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/07/jkusa.01...

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Notice when they get to this part the CNN video ends?

<snip>KING: And we have some video -- this is from TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company and it is of unit one. And I want to show this video and I want to ask you, Arnie Gundersen, when you look at this video -- as someone who understands the design, the engineering in here -- what are you seeing?

GUNDERSEN: It frightened me. What it's showing is that the nuclear reactor core has melted, and it's somewhere down below the floor. And you can just see boiling water and boiling steam coming out of that hole in the floor. It's the closest yet they've come to approaching that radioactive core. So, that was the first thing.

The second thing is that the robot -- these were taken with a robot -- measured a dose in that room of 400 rem per hour. We call that LD 50/50. And what that means is that it's a 50 percent chance you'll get a lethal exposure in one hour.

KING: So, if somebody was in that room for an hour or more, they're likely dead or seriously --

GUNDERSEN: Yes. If they're in that room for an hour, it's a quick death. It's not 10 years out. It's a 50/50 chance you'll die within a week.

KING: And so, let's take everything we've talked about in this conversation over the last several minutes, and take us back to the beginning, when we had conversations and you were critical about the size of the expansion zone, how far out people were when they were evacuated. Is it -- do you have proof now to say they should have done this and what is "this"? GUNDERSEN: Well, there's a lot of proof coming in, largely because of the Internet. We're not getting it from the Japanese government or from the U.S. government. But we're finding in trenches along the sides of roads, roadside ditches -- exposures on the order of 200 times normal. They found plutonium off site about a mile away from the gate.

So, this accident is severe. And the cost of cleaning it up is going to be astronomical. I'm betting that it's going to exceed $200 billion with a B dollars.

KING: Remarkable.

Arnie Gundersen, we appreciate you coming back to share your insights tonight. And we'll continue to track this story in the months ahead. It's important not only for the people of Japan but for nuclear industry here in the United States and around the world.

Mr. Gundersen, thanks again you for your help and your insights.
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[Sensei]

Yes, I saw the report on the doubled radiation estimates over here earlier this week. To put it in perspective, they said that even after doubling the estimate, the amount of radiation released into the environment was still only 10% that of Chernobyl. Nevertheless, I won't be stopping over in Tokyo this summer as we usually do en route to the U.S.