Radiation 1K Times Normal At A Japan Nuke Plant, 45,000 People Within 10KM Radius Ordered To Leave

[Turborama]

At Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 power plant, in Okuma,
radiation 1,000 times normal has been detected at the quake-crippled plant.
Officials have vented potentially radioactive steam to ease pressure inside
one reactor that could be in danger of overheating and melting.
Thousands of residents have been oredered to leave.

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY


Radiation 1,000 times normal has been detected inside a crippled nuclear plant in northeastern Japan where utility managers have released potentially radioactive steam to reduce mounting reactor pressure, http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/76948.html">the Kyodo News service is reporting, citing the government's safety agency.

That suggests radioactivity could spread around Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima No. 1 plant, where thousands of residents within a 6-miles were ordered to leave before dawn Saturday.

A state of emergency has been declared at the plant, one of the world's largest. Its primary cooling system was damaged by Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake.

There's potential danger to the public from three of at least 11 nuclear power reactors that are shut down, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0311/Japan-nuclear-plant-in-state-of-emergency-as-cooling-power-runs-low">the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Full article: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/03/radiation-1000-times-normal-detected-around-crippled-japanese-plant/1

No matter how desperately hard the nuke proponents try to spin it, 45,000 people living within a 10km radius have been ordered to leave (updated from 3,000 in a 2 mile radius thanks to Tx4obama's reply below) and that step would not have been taken for no reason.

Scientists are warning that Japan may be facing a nuclear disaster on the scale of Chernobyl.
1:52pm local time (GMT+9) March 12 2011

More on Japan's atomic emergency from Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert for the Global Security Programme at the Union of Concerned Scientists:

"The events that occurred at these plants, which is the loss of both offsite power and onsite power, is one of the rarest events to happen in a nuclear power plant, and all indications are that the Japanese do not have the situation under control."

Japanese authorities are trying to avoid the cooling system failure from turning into catastrophe by venting radioactive gas and evacuating people, he explains.

"The calculation at this point is that if you reduce pressure now by venting, you're reducing the risk of a catastrophic rupture, which could lead to an increase in radiation of thousands of times what it would be through the vents."

But a severe aftershock could undermine these efforts, a possibility that has laid bare a fatal flaw in readiness for the scenario that is now playing out in Japan.

"I don't think any regulatory agency anywhere takes into account the possibility of repeated severe aftershocks."

From Al Jazeera English's Live Blog, link here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x615852

http://www.nucleartourist.com/world/japan.htm">Japan has 53 nuclear power plants


The Recent Seismic Activity Around Japan

[maryf]

1. The silver lining??

Maybe, just maybe, some idiots will realize that we can't play with nuclear in any way shape or form...hopefully all this remains contained...K&R

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[Turborama]

4. Nuclear power plants and earthquakes don't mix

What's it going to take for you to believe that?

[Paradoxical]

6. You know what else doesn't mix with earthquakes? Flammable materials.

Like coke and natural gas.


A lot of things "don't mix". For instance, humans can't breath underwater. Are you now going to argue that we should end all forms of underwater exploration because of that?

[Turborama]

8. None of your examples disprove the fact that earthquakes and nuclear power plants don't mix

I'm not even going to bother responding to the analogies, the fatuousness within speaks for itself.

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[Turborama]

10. You're not

Because you can't.

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[Turborama]

12. I'm not responding to you any further

Because anyone who gets into ad hominem attacks instantly deserves being added to my "Ignored" list.

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Have a nice life. :hi:

[tabatha]

2. Good grief - 53 - in an earthquake zone.

What a nightmare.

[Tx4obama]

5. Just read 45,000 people have been told to evacuate. 45,000

Excerpt from the Al Jazeera Live Blog:

8:17am A total of 45,000 people living within a 10km radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have now been told to evacuate their homes - a steep rise on the 3,000 who were told to leave yesterday evening.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake#update-10551

[joshcryer]

7. So wait, radiation levels are 100 times what they'd be near an average coal plant?

:P