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Radiation inside Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant reached such astronomical levels Thursday that not even a robot could survive inside. A remote controlled cleaning machine sent into the incapacitated plant had to be pulled out after it ceased to function due to high levels of radiation. It was the first time a robot had entered the No. 2 reactor since the plant’s meltdown in 2011. Radiation reached “unimaginable” levels recently, experts told The Japan Times. The previous high was measured at 73 sieverts per hour, one year after the disaster. In contrast, new measurements showed radiation levels of 650 sieverts per hour. A single sievert would cause radiation sickness in a human, while a dose of 10 sieverts would cause death within weeks. “I had hoped that the previous results were wrong,” a government source told The Japan Times. “But it is certain that there is an area with high radiation levels inside the reactor.”
To give some perspective: radiation levels right after the meltdown were at 73 sieverts per hour, however, new measurements show radiation levels at 650 sieverts per hour; 1 sievert would cause sickness while 10 would cause death within weeks.
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It must be stressed that radiation in this area has not been measured before, and it was expected to be extremely high. While 530 Sv/hr is the highest measured so far at Fukushima Daiichi, it does not mean that levels there are rising, but that a previously unmeasurable high-radiation area has finally been measured. Similar remote investigations are being planned for Daiichi Units 1 and 3. We should not be surprised if even higher radiation levels are found there, but only actual measurements will tell.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: lostbook
To give some perspective: radiation levels right after the meltdown were at 73 sieverts per hour, however, new measurements show radiation levels at 650 sieverts per hour; 1 sievert would cause sickness while 10 would cause death within weeks.
Are you thinking that radiation levels have risen? That's not actually what's happening. They are taking readings in areas they have not done so before.
blog.safecast.org...
It must be stressed that radiation in this area has not been measured before, and it was expected to be extremely high. While 530 Sv/hr is the highest measured so far at Fukushima Daiichi, it does not mean that levels there are rising, but that a previously unmeasurable high-radiation area has finally been measured. Similar remote investigations are being planned for Daiichi Units 1 and 3. We should not be surprised if even higher radiation levels are found there, but only actual measurements will tell.
There's an ongoing thread here:
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originally posted by: lostbook
originally posted by: skatz
I wish there were only 2 threads for this politics. How can something so massive and deadly not be in the forefront of everything.
Yes, I agree. In all seriousness this has me worried.
“There's no indication that it's carried on the through generation. It's more of an indicator that it's a virus under the water and under a lot of different environmental circumstances. They're most susceptible and then it becomes so contagious," Long Marine Lab researcher Betsy Steele.
Founded in 1193 the city name is the same as the local Ukrainian name for mugwort or common wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris) a species of plant belonging to the daisy family, чорнобиль or “chornobyl”.