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After a week of limited coverage of "unimaginable levels" of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima[...], Nuclear-News.net reported February 11 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than "unimaginable".
Continuous, intense radiation at 530 sieverts an hour (4 sieverts is a lethal level), was widely reported in early February 2017--as if this were a new phenomenon. It's not. Three reactors at Fukushima melted down during the earthquake-tsunami disaster on March 3, 2011, and the meltdowns never stopped. Radiation levels have been out of control ever since. As Fairewinds Energy Education noted in an email February 10:
Although this robotic measurement just occurred, this high radiation reading was anticipated and has existed inside the damaged Unit 2 atomic reactor since the disaster began nearly 6 years ago.... As Fairewinds has said for 6 years, there are no easy solutions because groundwater is in direct contact with the nuclear corium (melted fuel) at Fukushima Daiichi.
What's new (and not very new, at that) is the official acknowledgment of the highest radiation levels yet measured there, by a factor of seven (the previously measured high was 73 sieverts an hour in 2012). The highest radiation level measured at Chernobyl was 300 sieverts an hour.
[...] This coverage relates only to Unit 2's melted reactor core. There is no reliable news of the condition of the melted reactor cores in two other units.
[...] Whatever is actually going on at Fukushima is not good, and has horrifying possibilities. It is little comfort to have the perpetrator of the catastrophe, TEPCO, in charge of fixing it, especially when the Japanese government is more an enabler of cover-up and denial than any kind of seeker of truth or protector of its people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:43AM
Agreed! The media try and do too much "thinking" for us instead of focusing on the facts. However, I'm pretty sure that's not by accident.
If facts were at the forefront of daily public conversations, you'd see more thoughtful leaders being elected, better journalism, and a smarter population.
Somebody somewhere must think that's a bad thing (?)
(Score: 1) by arcz on Wednesday February 22 2017, @05:23AM
Wrong. Somebody must think that 1) hiring people with advanced degrees is more expensive and 2) they can make more money by hiring idiots for less money.
You assume there is some kind of evil conspiracy. That's not the case, it's just that there is no motivation for advanced journalism. Especially given the people who would read it would just pirate it and not pay for it.