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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @05:14AM
Can we all mod jmorris down now? Can we, please? He will probably think it is a vast left-wing conspiracy, and that alone makes it worthwhile!!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MostCynical on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:25AM
Sometimes, it is a bit like arguing with a grandparent who grew up speaking a different language: every conversation has less and less communication, and more and more nodding, smiling, and working out how you can get away...
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @03:14PM
It is a vast left wing conspiracy, asshole. I sneaked into last week's meeting, wearing one of those pointy white hat things. You couldn't seen my face under that hoody thing, and I wore white gloves to hide my hands. And, I hid my iPhone recording the event under that stupid thingy. BITE ME BITCHES!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:42PM
Hey, he is known to have decent points on purely science/tech articles.