I’m curious. Are you quoting the exact same source, in the strange hope that it contradicts itself.
Or because you you think that their description of “an extremely high reading of 10,000 millisieverts per hour was announced as having been found in pipework leading to an exhaust stack” is wrong?
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I guess the words “The radiation levels indicated by these off-the-scale readings mean that no worker can approach to within a few metres of the areas to take detailed manual measurements. Instead, levels were estimated using gamma cameras mounted on robots.” are too hard for you to follow.
The material is not outside the pipes, it is inside them. Alpha and Beta do not penetrate thick metal. Also that they used gamma ray cameras is a clue.
Of course the real issue, which hasn’t been brought up in the media or by Tepco, is where in the fuck did this new shit come from? It’s not like it went somehow unnoticed for over three months, with people working around it all the time.
And what is causing it? What intense gamma ray creating shit is actually inside that piping?
All the more reason to replace them with modern designs that can reprocess those fuel rods down to a orders-of-magnitude less radioactive and smaller waste product while continuing to generate power.
But no, that’d be the SMART thing. Instead we have feeping anti-nuclear morons screaming BANANA, and no actual solution to the problem of building high-power, high-duty-cycle, high-reliability electrical plants other than coal or nuclear. Wind and solar are not up to it just based on duty cycle alone. Tidal and geothermal aren’t up to it based on raw power output. So because the anti-nuke flaming morons cannot and will not entertain actual alternatives, we are stuck with aging, increasingly dangerous plants that cannot be reasonably replaced and cannot be shutdown without dramatically affecting the associated power grids.
So I’m sure you’ve examined the list of 54 and carefully evaluated the possibility of upriver dam bursts, right? Because otherwise you’d just be talking out of your ass.
You mean way up there by the regional airport? If there’s a closer one, I can’t see it, and am disinclined to take your word for anything at this point, so feel free to offer up more detail.
A topography map of the area would help, too, to let us see the relative elevations.
Alpha and beta do not penetrate thick metal. Correct (at least as far as my limited knowledge of physics goes)
But a metal pipe used to vent large amounts of radioactive material will itself become radioactive (see previous statement on my qualifications)
So now the pipe from the emergency venting system…actually, probably the whole venetian assembly I should imagine, needs to be encased in cement and buried underground somewhere safe.
At this rate, the current death toll could increase by a factor of tens or hundreds.
I do. Why do you think there are only three forms of ionizing radiation? You’ve never heard of x-rays or neutrons, for example, both of which are relatively unmitigated by a little steel? I mean, its not as bad as your other idea of a gamma rays emitting particles, but I’m just trying to fight ignorance here.
Japan sacked three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy on Thursday, holding them to account for a series of scandals which have broken out in recent weeks over the government’s cozy relationship with the power industry.
Let me try again. I will use simple words, so you can understand.
This mean, "if somebody say background radiation is the same as ‘ingesting a particle, which is emitting radiation, into your lungs’, then they are an idiot.