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Originally Posted by hk20000
(Post 7340905)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_54.html
They have increased the evacuation area around the reactor to 20km radius, an approximate of 210,000 people are told to gtfo from the area. Around 80 people are still within the original 10km evacuation radius. 13 people are in hospital, suffering injuries from the hydrogen explosion at 5AM local time.
The nuclear emergency level has exceeded level 4. The Chernobyl incident was rated at level 7. Currently experts are in to evaluate the radiation leakage level in the air surrounding the area. Citizens are advised to dress to cover as much skin as possible.
That's what I saw on the NHK live stream in the last 5 minutes.
Oh, and they found bird influenza in a chicken farm....Another problem for their food supply in the works.
| Firstly, thanks for ignoring the fact that your previous map was completely a sham. Secondly, you're going on again about some ''facts'' you found and trying to scare people again. The evacuation radius was expanded, however, its still not considered a complete evacuation for a ''normal incident''.
Also, regarding the nuclear emergency level raised to level 4, a quick google search finds this: Quote:
A level 4 on the International Nuclear and Radiologocal Event Scale includes damage to fuel and release of significant quantities of radioactive material within an installation.
It's the same level as a criticality accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant in Tokai Village in Ibaraki Prefecture, south of Fukushima, in 1999.
| Oh, so something happened 10 years ago in 1999, in Ibaraki, a lot closer to Tokyo? What happened? A quick google search finds this: Quote:
Impacts
The chain reaction caused heavy releases of gamma and neutron radiation. Three workers were exposed to doses of up to 17 Sv (Sieverts), causing severe radiation sickness. The worker exposed to the highest dose died on December 21, 1999. The worker exposed to the second highest dose of 6 - 10 Sv died on April 27, 2000. 68 other persons were irradiated at lower levels. Among them were the workers who stopped the chain reaction: they were exposed to doses of up to 119.79 mSv, exceeding the 100 mSv limit for emergency situations. The annual dose limit for workers is 50 mSv (while ICRP currently recommends 20 mSv). As of October 7, 1999, radiation levels remained high inside the plant building, preventing inspection of the damage inside the plant.
First reports that an explosion had blown a hole into the roof of the facility have not been confirmed (see STA Oct 7, 1999).
On November 4, 1999, the Science and Technology Agency submitted a report to the Nuclear Safety Commission, containing estimates of radiation exposures during the criticality accident, based on an analysis of uranium solution sampled from a tank inside the fuel processing plant and neutron levels monitored around the plant. The report says that
the radiation dose received at a distance of 80 meters from the accident site (that is the nearest boundary of the plant) was estimated at 75 mSv* for the first 25 minutes of the criticality accident, and 160 mSv for the whole criticality period of 20 hours;
the radiation dose received at a distance of 350 meters from the plant (that was the evacuation boundary), was estimated at almost equal to the annual permissible dose of 1 mSv for the first 25 minutes, and 2 mSv for the whole event.
* this figure was revised to 30 mSv, according to Yomiuri Shimbun of Dec. 12, 1999. Details are not known yet.
Since the evacuation started only 5 hours after the begin of the criticality, residents may have received doses of more than 75 mSv, that is 75 times the permissible annual dose of 1 mSv.
The government has so far said 69 people were exposed to radiation, but the latest survey says the number of affected people could increase.
On January 31, 2000, the Science and Technology Agency reported that the JCO Co. nuclear accident exposed 119 people to levels of radiation that were higher than the maximum dose of one millisievert, considered safe for an ordinary person to be exposed to in a period of one year. The agency checked radiation doses received by 207 people living within a radius of 350 meters from the accident site, 148 JCO employees who were on its premises at the time of the accident, 60 firefighters and government officials who attended the scene, and 24 JCO technicians who entered the plant in an attempt to halt the self-sustaining nuclear reaction of a uranium solution. Among local residents, the highest radiation dose recorded was 21 millisieverts. The recipient lived right next to the plant and took a long time to evacuate, the agency said. (Yomiuri Feb. 1, 2000)
The estimate of the total number of persons exposed to radiation from the accident was raised to 439. Of those affected, 207 were local people who lived and worked within a 350 m radius of the plant. (Reuters Jan 31, 2000)
| With a full evac, the total number of affected people was 439, with 207 of them people who lived and worked within a 350m radius... FOR 10 YEARS. What makes you think you have the right to make people in Vancouver panic considering this fact? Also notice how it uses sieverts as units, not RADS. |
