Japan Nuclear Safety Commission greatly underestimated radioactive releases

[flamingdem]

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/04/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-154.html


Saturday, April 23, 2011 #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: 154 Terabecquerels Per Day, Every Day
of radioactive iodine and cesium still spewing out of the plant, Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission now admits.

On April 12 during the joint press conference with Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) where they jointly announced the Fukushima I Plant accident was INES Level 7, the Commission assured the world that said that the release of radioactive materials from the plant had decreased to less than 1 terabecquerel per hour, or 24 terabecquerels per day.



Hmmmm. The supposed nuclear power experts of the Committee didn't know how to calculate using the INES method? BS. Because on April 12 when they announced the total emission estimate of the radioactive materials from March 23 to April 5, they did say they converted the cesium amount into iodine equivalent.

----------------- ORIGINAL REPORT TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESE

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20110423-OYT1T00667.htm?from=y10

From Yomiuri Shinbun (9:15PM JST 4/23/2011):

The Nuclear Safety Commission under the Prime Minister's Office disclosed on April 23 that the amount of radioactive materials being released from the TEPCO Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant was 154 terabecquerels per day (1 tera is 1 trillion) as late as April 5 when the amount being released was considered stabilized.

On April 5, the estimated amount of radioactive materials released from Fukushima I Nuke Plant was 0.69 terabecquerels/hour for iodine-131 and 0.14 terabecquerels/hour for cesium-137. When the numbers were recalculated according to the INES method (converting cesium amount into iodine equivalent), the amount released turned out to be 6.4 terabecquerels/hour (which was 154 terabecquerels per day. Previously, the Nuclear Safety Commission had simply added the numbers for iodine-131 and cesium-137, and announced it was less than 1 terrabecquerel per hour.

[snagglepuss]

1. I don't understand why every major country and/ or the UN hasn't insisted

from the getgo that they be involved in this crisis. How can Japans NRC be so incompetent?

[flamingdem]

2. I believe they won't allow experts close to the decision process

due to the corporate culture and attempt to save face and ___________