It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
“When the pressure starts building up, the emergency procedure is to start venting,” Dave Lochbaum, director of the nuclear safety project at the Union for Concerned Scientists, said in a telephone interview. “They’ve essentially entered a beat the clock game. As long as there is no fuel damage, there will be radioactivity, but it will be very low.”
Radiation spread by the venting won’t be at a level dangerous to health, said Ryohei Shiomi, a spokesman at the government’s nuclear agency said earlier.
Tokyo Electric started venting gas from a containment section of the No. 1 reactor at Fukushima Dai-ichi at about 9 a.m. local time. The company is preparing to do the same at the Dai-Ni nuclear plant nearby, a spokesman said.
Tokyo Electric earlier said it had lost control of pressure building up in three reactors at the Dai-Ichi power plant. Temperatures in the control room rose to higher than 100 Celsius (212 Fahrenheit), said Naoki Tsunoda, a company spokesman.
It turns out that there's a scale for nuclear power accidents. On a scale of 1-7, Three Mile Island was a 5, Chernobyl was a 7 and so far this is being rated as a 4. *
...The Japanese government's chief spokesman, Yukio Edano, said the concrete building housing the plant's number one reactor had collapsed but the metal reactor container inside was not damaged.
The government insisted radiation levels were low following Saturday's explosion, saying the blast had not affected the reactor core container, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had been told by Japan that levels "have been observed to lessen in recent hours".
Originally posted by SmedleyBurlap
reply to post by crazydaisy
Ch-ch-check it
The government insisted radiation levels were low following Saturday's explosion, saying the blast had not affected the reactor core container, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had been told by Japan that levels "have been observed to lessen in recent hours".
It seems that the reactor core is cooling down, releasing less radioactive material. Woo!
Originally posted by MR BOB
reply to post by charles1952
get some iodine. also check out these kinda websites, maybe they will deliver before it reaches you www.ki4u.com...
read up on radiation survival too.edit on 12-3-2011 by MR BOB because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SmedleyBurlap
reply to post by raiders247
Supply/Demand, maybe? With the end of the cold war, demand for iodine decreased and nuclear fears diminished. After decades of peace between nuclear nations, why wouldn't the iodine market have dried up?
There will probably be a nice fat boom in iodine stock thanks to this disaster!