Astronomical Radiation Level In Fukushima: Media Just Parrots Any Old Crap That Is Sensational

update Feb 9

I was the first one to realize this story was bogus in the world :)

I think the japs were pulling a Trump. A information disruption game.

Bloomberg

Tepco Struggles to Communicate Radiation Spike That Wasn’t

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There was just one problem -- there was no rise in the radiation readings at all.
By putting a camera inside of the primary containment vessel of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 2 reactor, which experienced a meltdown in the 2011 disaster, Tepco collected data closer than ever before to what could be the source of radiation.

While these figures are much higher than the previously recorded peaks -- 73 sieverts an hour, taken in 2012 -- and many times greater than the lethal dose, the readings were taken closer to the source of the radiation.

“Very high radiation readings near any of the used fuel would be expected,” Peter Lyons, a former commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said by e-mail. 

Continuing Fear

By comparison, a nuclear fuel rod a day after a reactor is halted has a surface radiation of several tens of thousands of sieverts an hour, Yukako Handa, a Tepco spokeswoman, said by phone. Tepco also notes that the 530 sieverts figure has a margin of error of 30 percent.

The alarm shows the struggles Tepco still faces communicating with a population afraid of the consequences of nuclear power, and suspicious of the utility after its obfuscation while the accident was unfolding. Last year Tepco was forced to apologize when reports emerged that management at the time of the disaster ordered staff not to use the word “meltdown.”

Bottom of Form

“There is a continuing fear regarding the effects of the accident, which was reinforced by poor information from Tepco and the Japanese government in the early days,” Azby Brown, lead researcher for Safecast, an independent organization that compiles radiation data, said by e-mail. “While it was clear to people who have been following the technical issues that they did not intend to suggest there had been a rise in radiation levels, we can see why some people misunderstood.”

I would say these readings would be normal for a core meltdown within the vessel. Somewhat mild for the condition. Exposed fuel to the atmosphere would get you to millions of Sieverts per hour or incapable of being measured. If there was a huge clump of core ruble  on cement floor in that compartment we'd be talking millions of rems. It just doesn't make sense?

The nuclear plant's Rainforest.

I was in a similar area many times. It is the bottom hemisphere of the vessel. So you are in center of the room looking up, its looked like seeing a huge basketball above your head. Except a lot of long sticks (CDRMS) protruding out of the basketball. Cables would be coming out of the sticks looking like vines in a forest. It was damp in there and had water leaks dripping on the floor. If you had a big imagination it looks like a upside down rainforest. If you were called to go down there to work, you knew you pissed off somebody big time. 

Believe me, we all had a great since of humor .   

Japanese nuclear plant just recorded an astronomical radiation level. Should we be worried?

Washington Post TOKYO — The utility company that operated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan — the one that went into triple meltdown after the enormous 2011 earthquake and tsunami — has released some jaw-dropping figures.

The radiation level in the containment vessel of reactor two has reached as high as 530 sieverts per hour, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco as it’s known, said last week. This far exceeds the previous high of 73 sieverts per hour recorded at the reactor following the March 2011 disaster.