8.8 Magnitude Earthquake hit Japan

[Sgt Beavis]

If there is too much radiation being leaked, when would we see signs? I don't know much about radiation.

google radiation poisoning....

However, you don't have anything to worry about at this point...

[Strychnine]

If there is too much radiation being leaked, when would we see signs? I don't know much about radiation.

We, being the US? We probably wouldn't.


Anything irradited would have to get launched pretty high in the air to get in the jet stream. Then it would have to survive dilution, make it through any rain storms that would knock it down out of the air while crossing the Pacific, etc, etc...

In short, don't sweat it here. Just pray for the people over there.

[Strychnine]

From a smart person in the nuclear power industry:

Telling folks to dust themselves off before going indoors. To me that = actual fallout. What are they going to dust themselves off with?

That worries me also. They're easing people into major radioactive material release.

In response to what can be done about the exposed fuel in #4:

With dose rates as high as they might be, I'm not sure how you combat it unless you get volunteers to a suicide mission. There's no practical gear you can use to shield rad levels like you might see on a refuel floor with exposed spent fuel.


Wow...................just wow.


You need water in that spent fuel pool. The problem may be that it won't hold water. They need to rig up something to get water up there continuously. It will make a giant contamination mess, but that spent fuel needs to get covered.

Bad, bad, bad........................wow.

And they're saying the #4 fire is due to falling debris from #3. Which means it could have been an issue for the past 24 hours and they are just now publicizing it.


Horrible.

[Skidmark]

Yea I know we don't have much to worry here about, just in general I guess. I'll check out radiation poisoning. I wasn't sure if the plants would die, etc.

I have some people on my team in Malaysia and they were receiving notice today to not go out if it's raining.

[Strychnine]

Yea I know we don't have much to worry here about, just in general I guess. I'll check out radiation poisoning. I wasn't sure if the plants would die, etc.

I have some people on my team in Malaysia and they were receiving notice today to not go out if it's raining.

Here's a good graphic. Least severe at bottom. Note the changing scales as you go up each line.

[Sgt Beavis]

Streaming video of a Geiger counter in Tokyo,

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geiger-counter-tokyo

[stevo]

Streaming video of a Geiger counter in Tokyo,
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geiger-counter-tokyo

I wish they had one setup in the evacuation zone near those plants with a live feed. I bet it would have tens of thousands of people glued to their computers watching it.

EDIT: I just realized that the one linked above in Tokyo currently has 19,000+ people watching it.

Stevo

[Denny]

I wish they had one setup in the evacuation zone near those plants with a live feed. I bet it would have tens of thousands of people glued to their computers watching it.

EDIT: I just realized that the one linked above in Tokyo currently has 19,000+ people watching it.

Stevo

The closer ones will not be public.

[stevo]

The closer ones will not be public.

The Tokyo one went blank also.

Stevo

[Magnimike1]

The Tokyo one went blank also.

Stevo

imagine that...

[eastsidetorino]

Im trying to get a hold of friends to find out what their equipment is reading......Ive heard nothing but rumors and I wont post up anything about said rumors until I get confirmation that it is either true or false.

[Denny]

Man, those markets are rough! Japan's Nikkei stock index nose-dived nearly 11 percent and the other Asian markets are getting beat down.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nuclear-crisis-slams-stocks-apf-946477832.html?x=0

[mstng86]

2,700 already dead, devastation in the possible hundred billions, freezing temps setting in, and oh yea, a nuclear meltdown.

That place is hell on earth.

[Juiced4v]

We are very lucky this did not happen here in the U.S!

[Denny]

2,700 already dead, devastation in the possible hundred billions, freezing temps setting in, and oh yea, a nuclear meltdown.

That place is hell on earth.

I think that by the time this is all settled, we'll see a loss of over 100K... bodies still yet to be recovered/counted, radiation, disease, hunger, etc.