"Radiation 10 Million Times Above Normal At Japanese Fukushima Nuke Plant Reactor #2"

[Xicano]

CNN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtEqHHhJWZs

[villager]

1. we bring good things to life!

n/t

[flamingdem]

2. Breaking: Tepco says radioactive water due to partial meltdown

BREAKING NEWS: Radioactive water from No. 2 reactor due to partial meltdown: Edano

kyodonews.jp

[Junkdrawer]

4. Of course they'll walk that back....

"We thought it as a meltdown, but it was only a partial, temporary meltdown."

[flamingdem]

5. They did! I posted more headlines in the energy/environment subforum

including that Edano called it a TEMPORARY meltdown. What next?

[Junkdrawer]

7. Not like they're predictable or anything...

:rofl:

[flamingdem]

8. It's an eentsy, weensty apocolypse, nothing more

I am so deeply sad for the Japanese but must say their culture isn't helping here. I just hope it's not ultimately the cause of the worst case scenario developing, nooo.

[Junkdrawer]

10. I don't like the idea that the party who would bear the costs is the party...

who decides the size of the evacuation zone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=755466&mesg_id=755466

[flamingdem]

11. I see the problem

Will we be able to prevail in the US? That has to be the only silver lining here.

Tepco's executives are being investigated according to Kyodo News today.

[Hannah Bell]

17. what are you talking about? they already said there was partial meltdown in

various places like a week ago -- as it was happening.

[Electric Monk]

3. It was later corrected. Apparently someone misplaced a decimal point during the calculation

and it was only (ONLY?!??) 100,000 times above normal.

[flamingdem]

6. .. and on to a meltdown today! nt

[Kablooie]

12. What's the difference between 10 mill and 100 thou times radiation? Who cares? It's not good.

[Bonobo]

14. Spoken like....

Well someone who doesn't give a damn.

If you live in Japan, you give a damn.

2 orders of magnitude difference is not 'nothing' unless you're one of those "Science? Pfff!" types.

[Hannah Bell]

15. a splinter in my finger is "not good". but it's better than a pole in my eye.

if you're not interested in getting accurate readings, start a "not good" thread. that will be informative.

[Kablooie]

19. But it has fewer letters so fits in the title box.

[99th_Monkey]

13. AHH. I'm so relieved. :sarcasm: ~nt

[Hannah Bell]

18. they reported the number for a different isotope initially was what i heard.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. The thing is, everyone knew this was an inevitability.

They knew this was going to happen, and they did it anyway.

[intaglio]

16. Sorry, unrecc'ed. This walked back hours ago

TEPCO admit they reported incorrectly. It is "only" 100,000 times background - which is bad enough.