Japan radiation levels reach new highs
March 28, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
Radiation levels at Japan nuclear plant reach new highs: Leaked water sampled from one unit Sunday had 100,000 times the radioactivity of normal background levels…. airborne radioactivity in the unit 2 turbine building still remained so high — 1,000 millisieverts per hour — that a worker there would reach his yearly occupational exposure limit in 15 minutes. A dose of 4,000 to 5,000 millisieverts absorbed fairly rapidly will eventually kill about half of those exposed…. Radioactive water is pooling in four of Fukushima’s six turbine rooms, and engineers have no quick way to clean it up. — Washington Post, March 28, 1:35 AM EDT
Live video from nuclear radiation monitor in Santa Monica (no elevated readings found so far); 40 to 46 CPM is normal range. — EnviroReporter.com
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Comments (2)
by GGIGGA
Got is backwards – so sorry no correction needed. The test of this news item is as stated above. It is 100,000x normal radiation, or 10,000 microsieverts.
by GGIGGA
Actually this news story was updated as 10 million times normal radiation.
Various Japanese information sources have been confusing millisieverts and microsieverts. The level leaking from reactor two is 1,000,000 microsieverts (believe this is per hour). There is certain death for those who have this exposure level.
News on this update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/28/japan-nuclear-plant-partial-meltdown