Fukushima

Level 7: Major accident
Impact on people and environment
Major release of radio­active ­material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended ­countermeasures
There have been two such events to date:
Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. A power surge during a test procedure resulted in a criticality accident, leading to a powerful steam explosion and fire that released a significant fraction of core material into the environment, resulting in a death toll of 56 as well as estimated 4,000 additional cancer fatalities among people exposed to elevated doses of radiation. As a result, the city of Chernobyl (pop. 14,000) was largely abandoned, the larger city of Pripyat (pop. 49,400) was completely abandoned, and a 30 km exclusion zone was established.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, a series of events beginning on 11 March 2011. Rated level 7 on 11 April 2011 by the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency.[2][3] Major damage to the backup power and containment systems caused by the 2011 T?hoku earthquake and tsunami resulted in overheating and leaking from some of the Fukushima I nuclear plant's reactors. Each reactor accident was rated separately; out of the six reactors, three were rated level 5, one was rated at a level 3, and the situation as a whole was rated level 7.[4] An exclusion zone of 20 km was established around the plant as well as a 30 km voluntary evacuation zone.[5] See also 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents.

Huh. Media had me thinking this was a minor event, but it's rated the same as Chernobyl. Huh...

Was upgraded after the mainstream media stopped caring for the most part. But still, it did make the media.

Yeah. All of a bit of a major worry!

"Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.

"The new calculations show that within the first week of the accident, they released 2.3 times as much radiation as they thought they released in the first 80 days."

"Somehow, robotically, they will have to go in there and manage to put it in a container and store it for infinity, and that technology doesn't exist. Nobody knows how to pick up the molten core from the floor, there is no solution available"


http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201161664828302638.html

Perhaps a disaster in communist USSR is more gratifying

when can i buy my iphone 5?

To think this Powerstation was only 30kms from my house in japan beggers belief. Puts the Tokaimura incident I went through to shame. Anyway loads of good info on the net (I must admit I do have a bit of a fascination with this incident). Here is one really good NHK documentary about the fallout. I have to say NHK do bloody good documentary's., Warning though it is over an hour long. I love the way Japs get all analytical about stuff like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzX3gAxp58&feature=player_embedded#!

bxp - do you glow in the dark

and if so would you say the glow is faint or good enough to read by?

Ha Ha not quite, However my Mother In Law was the closest NZ person to the Tokaimura accident and she sure is fucked in the head.