7.5 mil. times legal limit of iodine in sea

[Kalun D]

Source: NHK World

The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says 7.5 million times the legal limit of radioactive iodine 131 has been detected from samples of seawater near the plant.

Monday's sample also contained 1.1 million times the legal limit of cesium 137, which has a half life of 30 years.

Read more: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_27.html

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Can you say "out of control"?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

1. I don't think I will worry until

it gets 10 mil times the legal limit. :sarcasm:

[Lucinda]

2. NO silly. x 13 mil is the bad one.

13 is a way scarier number than 10.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

9. LOL, you know somehow

by some strange anomaly, that actually makes sense. :toast:

[Lucinda]

10. LOL

:toast:

[Lucinda]

3. Yup. I can. In several languages.

:(
Thankie for the information.

[DeSwiss]

4. K&R

[Vinee]

5. cesium 137. half life of 30 years. 1.1 million times the legal limit

iodine 131. half life 8 days. 7.5 million times the legal limit

I think the cesium is a bigger problem.

After entering the body, cesium gets more or less uniformly distributed throughout the body, with higher concentration in muscle tissues and lower in bones. The biological half-life of cesium is rather short at about 70 days.<6> Experiments with dogs showed that a single dose of 3800 μCi/kg (approx. 44 μg/kg of cesium-137) is lethal within three weeks.<7>

Accidental ingestion of cesium-137 can be treated with Prussian blue, which binds to it chemically and then speeds its expulsion from the body.

One gram of cesium-137 has an activity of 3.215 terabecquerel (TBq).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137

Iodine-gone in 80 days. Cesium-gone in 300 years.

[No Elephants]

6. Taxing GE's executives at a rate higher than a busboy's would be unfair and class warfare.

And, Lord knows, no one wants class warfare, especially big business executives.

But, why am I posting about the fairness of taxing the rich n a thread about iodine in oceans?

[Vilis Veritas]

7. Because Radioactive Iodine in Oceans is perfect diversion

from the relevant issues that are currently worrying those in power.

On Edit: I am not saying that it is not important, just a perfect diversion.

[Baclava]

8. same story, from Reuters - - a little more desperation

"In desperation, engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant have turned to what are little more than home remedies to stem the flow of contaminated water. On Tuesday, they used "liquid glass" in the hope of plugging cracks in a leaking concrete pit."

"We tried pouring sawdust, newspaper and concrete mixtures into the side of the pit (leading to tunnels outside reactor No.2), but the mixture does not seem to be entering the cracks," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA).




http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/05/japan-idUSL3E7F42CD20110405