... and that 400mSv count has already fallen, now hovering around 0.6mSv/hour. The "per hour" is important, too.
I've been staying out of this thread because Berk has been doing an awesome job derailing the OMG PANIC tone. But really. I'm not calling you out, ordnance, so much as I am simply wondering why you seem to feel the need to promote a fatalistic and unrealistic scenario. The situation is bad, yes. No doubt. But you're cherry-picking the worst and presenting it as badly as the mass media is.
For the record, 0.6mSv is roughly the same as 5-8 chest x-rays. Also, that was local measurements. It has not gone airborne and likely won't, and the fire that promoted that local measurement has been extinguished.
The real crisis (crises!) here is not one reactor that is doing exactly what it was designed to do and keeping radiation contained even in the event of disaster greater than it had been designed for, but rather, the people who are suffering -- from lack of food and water, from lack of power, from injuries and loss of property, from all of the rest of it. The reactor is dying -- dead, even -- but it's doing its duty, as are the people on staff, and it's not going to cause any long-term serious harm. More than likely it's not even going to cause any short-term serious harm.
In short... relax, man. It's okay. It's not that big a deal. Seriously.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Quote:...From iaea.org.
At 00:00 UTC on 15 March a dose rate of 11.9 millisieverts (mSv) per
hour was observed. Six hours later, at 06:00 UTC on 15 March a dose rate
of 0.6 millisieverts (mSv) per hour was observed.
These observations indicate that the level of radioactivity has been decreasing at the site.
As reported earlier, a 400 millisieverts (mSv) per hour radiation dose
observed at Fukushima Daiichi occurred between Units 3 and 4. This is a
high dose-level value, but it is a local value at a single location and
at a certain point in time....
I've been staying out of this thread because Berk has been doing an awesome job derailing the OMG PANIC tone. But really. I'm not calling you out, ordnance, so much as I am simply wondering why you seem to feel the need to promote a fatalistic and unrealistic scenario. The situation is bad, yes. No doubt. But you're cherry-picking the worst and presenting it as badly as the mass media is.
For the record, 0.6mSv is roughly the same as 5-8 chest x-rays. Also, that was local measurements. It has not gone airborne and likely won't, and the fire that promoted that local measurement has been extinguished.
The real crisis (crises!) here is not one reactor that is doing exactly what it was designed to do and keeping radiation contained even in the event of disaster greater than it had been designed for, but rather, the people who are suffering -- from lack of food and water, from lack of power, from injuries and loss of property, from all of the rest of it. The reactor is dying -- dead, even -- but it's doing its duty, as are the people on staff, and it's not going to cause any long-term serious harm. More than likely it's not even going to cause any short-term serious harm.
In short... relax, man. It's okay. It's not that big a deal. Seriously.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs