TEPCO: Greatest amount of Radition peaked today "highest registered" so far

[itsrobert]

On the rise.

Source: CNN Live tv.

20 millisieverts per hour

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?hpt=C1


But the Fukushima Daiichi complex of six nuclear reactors remained a danger. Radiation levels peaked Friday at 20 millisieverts per hour near where workers were trying to reestablish electrical power, "the highest registered so far," the TEPCO spokesman said.
Radiation levels Thursday morning at the plant were nearly 3.8 millisieverts per hour -- more than a typical resident of a developed country receives in a year. But Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said 17 of 18 workers checked Thursday morning tested normal, and the one who received a higher dose of radiation required no medical treatment.

[applegrove]

1. ****!

[jpak]

2. link?

dammit

:hi:

[theglammistress]

3. Linky...

Anderson Cooper is talking about it tonight...

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/17/japan-quake-live-blog-obama-pledges-u-s-support/


And from Twitter (around 10pm EST):


CNNBRK:
TEPCO: Radiation 1,000 times typical chest X-ray near #quake damaged reactor http://on.cnn.com/geuDYC

Edit: because I reread the post and saw the link was added. Oops.

[thereismore]

4. Just for information: lethal dose is about 1000 millisieverts, that's about

50 hours of being there.