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Originally posted by jackflap
More than one article states beams or rays. Nothing about a gentle dispersal of neutrons there.
Originally posted by Bedlam
Originally posted by jackflap
More than one article states beams or rays. Nothing about a gentle dispersal of neutrons there.
Everyone's reprinting the same badly translated article. Word for word.
Seriously, read the thing for understanding. They use the term "beam" for ANY neutron emission. I know it's not as sexy as imagining blue laser beams coming out of the debris. Which somehow are only emitting 0.02 microSieverts. But yeah, blue death beams man, that's the ticket.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
This my friend is what the thread is about, no real information, and just canned information that you yourself know can't be accurate because you understand some of the science inolved.
Here is where you are not erring on the side of caution, you are trying to make sense out of what wasn't issued or made to make sense, by tweaking it to make sense.
That does not though mean that is happening because it really can't be assumed that they were honest in the first place with what you tweaked.
It's canned stock news that is being broadcast by everyone. There are no independent sources, it's all tightly controlled, they are telling people only what they want people to hear, and you know that because you have spotted the inaccuracies in it.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
You know and I know with what's really on the line here that they can and could easily provide a qualified expert to explain it right to a scientific mind's satisfaction and to get it translated right too.
Originally posted by Bedlam
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Originally posted by Bedlam
Originally posted by jackflap
More than one article states beams or rays. Nothing about a gentle dispersal of neutrons there.
Everyone's reprinting the same badly translated article. Word for word.
Seriously, read the thing for understanding. They use the term "beam" for ANY neutron emission. I know it's not as sexy as imagining blue laser beams coming out of the debris. Which somehow are only emitting 0.02 microSieverts. But yeah, blue death beams man, that's the ticket.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by xuenchen
I could not find a genuine Japanese Translator, Wal-Mart only had Made in China models!
[ 4:44 a.m. Friday in Tokyo] The outlook is generally good for two workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, who were hospitalized after they stepped in contaminated water, experts said Thursday, provided they were promptly decontaminated.
Three workers were laying cables Wednesday in the basement of the turbine building for reactor no. 3 when they stepped into the water, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters. It seeped into the ankle-height boots of two of the men, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the plant. Those two men, one in his 30s and a second in his 20s, were taken to Fukushima Medical University Hospital, officials said. The third was not hospitalized, because his boots were higher and covered his skin, avoiding contact, according to Tokyo Electric.
[1:51 p.m. ET Thursday, 2:51 a.m. Friday in Tokyo] Low radiation levels have reached as far as Sweden, according to the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority. Leif Moberg, head of research for the authority, said there have been readings of radioactive iodine in Sweden, as expected, but the amount is "very low and it does not pose any health risk at all for humans or the environment."
Korea plans to transfer its reserve boron to Japan to help the country stabilize quake-damaged nuclear reactors that have started to release radioactive material, the government said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy said that Tokyo has requested assistance of the key material vital for stopping fission nuclear reactions after its own stockpile has been largely used up at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Boron is the main material that goes into control rods used to halt or slow down fission reactions at nuclear reactors. Japan has mixed large amounts of boron with seawater and poured them into the reactors as an emergency measure.