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(Reuters) - Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after high doses of radiation were detected at a crippled nuclear power plant, the plant's operator said. Tokyo Electric Power Co said radiation 10 million times the usual level was detected in water that had accumulated at the No. 2 reactor's turbine housing unit. A Tokyo Electric official said workers left the No. 2 reactor's turbine housing unit to prevent exposure to radiation.
Originally posted by Atlantican
LOL!!! Good thing this wasn't a good ol fashioned show down! I never seem to win anything, so maybe you would've won thanks to my poor hip shot aim.
Originally posted by Atlantican
reply to post by WanderingThe3rd
Look at the name origin in the below paragraph. CHERNOBYL is actually the Ukrainian word for WORMWOOD.
en.wikipedia.org...
Freaky though nonetheless!!! As a side note the media and various experts keep comparing this to Chernobyl & Three Mile Isle, so the word is definitely invoked here as a comparative measure.
Originally posted by -W1LL
they corrected to say
(This version corrects that 1,000 millisievert reading is for air, not water.)
source
TOKYO – Radioactivity in contaminated water in one unit of a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant tested 10 million times higher than normal, forcing the evacuation of workers and again delaying efforts to bring the complex under control, the plant's operator said Sunday.
The air in Unit 2, meanwhile, measured 1,000 millisieverts per hour — four times the limit of 250 millisieverts deemed safe by the government, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita told reporters.