# Nuclear meltdown! Holy Godzilla NOOOO!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 12, 2011, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389 "2011-03-12T08:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 91
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1801 "2011-04-28T05:45:25Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > The demarcation line (which is either thick black or the red line) would be the 20MSv/a does boundary, for somebody who was outside for eight hours a day. Every day, for a year. According to the DOE 18th April update, the 2 rem / 20 millisievert demarcation line is the RED line. The smaller area.[http://blog.energy.gov/content/situation-japan](http://blog.energy.gov/content/situation-japan) ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1802 "2011-04-28T05:48:24Z")
This page gives the actual amounts as both rems and sieverts. [http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/part020-1201.html](http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/part020-1201.html) It also shows how confusing it can seem. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1803 "2011-04-30T10:04:12Z")
> [@](#): > > TOKYO (Kyodo) – An adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant told the prime minister’s office Friday he will resign in protest over what he called the government’s impromptu handling of the crisis. > [@](#): > > It is extremely rare for an intellectual adviser appointed by the prime minister to resign in protest at measures the government has taken. [http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110430p2g00m0dm018000c.html](http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110430p2g00m0dm018000c.html) > [@](#): > > He told the news conference at the Diet building it is problematic for the government to have delayed the release of forecasts on the spread of radiation from the Fukushima plant, done by the Nuclear Safety Technology Center’s computer system, called the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information, or SPEEDI. > > He also blasted the government for hiking the upper limit for emergency workers seeking to bring the crippled plant under control to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts after the crisis broke out. > > “The prime minister’s office and administrative organizations have made impromptu policy decisions, like playing a whack-a-mole game, ignoring proper procedures,” the radiation expert said. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1804 "2011-05-12T04:45:07Z")
It’s finally official, Fukushima reactor one has had a meltdown (what a surprise). ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1805 "2011-05-12T13:36:41Z")
The only one who would be surprised is you, apparently, since they were saying that a melt down was likely as far back as March. It’s May now. A google search of some new revelation is coming up short, however…the newest cite I can find on the subject is from April. Do you have a cite for this stunning revelation that brought it to your attention? -XT ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1806 "2011-05-12T14:32:33Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > The only one who would be surprised is you, apparently, since they were saying that a melt down was likely as far back as March. It’s May now. A google search of some new revelation is coming up short, however…the newest cite I can find on the subject is from April. Do you have a cite for this stunning revelation that brought it to your attention? > > -XT From here I guess. > [@](#): > > [Reactor 1 fuel rods melted, sank to bottom](http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110512x1.html) > Coolant water much lower than Tepco had been estimating > > By KAZUAKI NAGATA > Staff writer > > Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday that the water level in the No. 1 reactor’s pressure vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is much lower than thought and that some of the fuel rods melted down and fell to its bottom. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1807 "2011-05-12T15:36:38Z")
Hey, I hear that an Alabama reactor got a bad grade. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/10/501364/main20061444.shtml](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/10/501364/main20061444.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389/1808 "2011-06-16T14:24:01Z")
Yeah, and now two Nebraska nuclear plants are under water. One of them had a fire and lost cooling. But trust the media and the government. Nothing bad can ever happen here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-meltdown-holy-godzilla-noooo/574389.md?page=90)