LATEST:Tokyo hit by 8.9 mag earthquake and 10-m high tsunami

[Daddy D]

SAHM_TAN:

Daddy

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_649114.html


\"FOUR shipments of Japanese vegetables which arrived in Singapore will be destroyed after traces of radioactive contaminants were found in samples from them...
All the vegetables, totalling 144kg, were recalled successfully, except for 200g which had gone to a restaurant. \"

You call this recalled successfully?
I call this... trying too hard to downplay the situation...

:stupid:

Be thankful that they reported that the team lost 200g. But I thought the food will not move till given the green light? How did 200g of veggie transported to the resturant? Wonder were the people from the resturant handling the veggie contaminated?

Yes be thankful... but I don't always believe 100% of those reported in the news.

[Way2GO]

smurf:

Erm, actually there are more than 15...Except that Chernobyl one is the most jia lak one..

Issit?
I only know of 3 major incidents.
Which r d other > 12 incidents?

[SAHM_TAN]

Daddy

SAHM_TAN:

[quote=\"Daddy D\"]http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_649114.html


\"FOUR shipments of Japanese vegetables which arrived in Singapore will be destroyed after traces of radioactive contaminants were found in samples from them...
All the vegetables, totalling 144kg, were recalled successfully, except for 200g which had gone to a restaurant. \"

You call this recalled successfully?
I call this... trying too hard to downplay the situation...

:stupid:

Be thankful that they reported that the team lost 200g. But I thought the food will not move till given the green light? How did 200g of veggie transported to the resturant? Wonder were the people from the resturant handling the veggie contaminated?

Yes be thankful... but I don't always believe 100% of those reported in the news.[/quote]The general public will not have 100% truth, only people in the know has it. We hardly do SingaLeaks

[smurf]

Way2GO:

smurf:

Erm, actually there are more than 15...Except that Chernobyl one is the most jia lak one..

Issit?
I only know of 3 major incidents.
Which r d other > 12 incidents?

Ukraine, Germany, USA, japan (other prefecture). USA has the most, but not as jia lak as the Chernobyl and japan ones. japan has 3 so far.

[Daddy D]

Radiation levels soar at Japan nuclear plant

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1119095/1/.html

\"The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant said it had detected radiation levels 10 million times higher than usual in leaked water at reactor two, as white steam continued to rise from the tsunami-battered facility....
Japan's nuclear safety agency has ruled out an immediate threat to marine life and seafood safety, saying the radiation would be quickly dispersed by tides, amid some signs of gradual progress at the site.

Erm... thanks for the re-assurance...
But then again... dispersed to where??!!!
Duh...
:stupid: :stupid: :stupid:

[tankee]

radiation?


:idea: godzilla ? :siam:

[Daddy D]

'Extremely high' radiation levels false alarm

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1119143/1/.html

\"JAPAN: The operator of a crippled nuclear plant in Japan has retracted an announcement that radiation in water near one of the reactors was 10 million times higher than normal, Jiji Press reported Sunday.

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said the mistake was due to confusion between readings of iodine and cobalt in the water....\"

Erm... like that also can ah? Simply press the delete button?
Which is true and false? Your guess is as good as mine...

[SAHM_TAN]

Daddy

'Extremely high' radiation levels false alarm

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1119143/1/.html

\"JAPAN: The operator of a crippled nuclear plant in Japan has retracted an announcement that radiation in water near one of the reactors was 10 million times higher than normal, Jiji Press reported Sunday.

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said the mistake was due to confusion between readings of iodine and cobalt in the water....\"

Erm... like that also can ah? Simply press the delete button?
Which is true and false? Your guess is as good as mine...

Experts also make such mistakes? Too stress?

[Way2GO]

28th March 2011


The highly radioactive stagnant water in the Reactors’ basement is hindering access to the cooling pumps.
The radiation at Unit 1 – 4 are all in excess of 260 mSv,
with Unit 3 which used a mixture of Uranium and Plutonium fuel, highest at 1,750 mSv.
Radiation in excess of 100 mSv increases cancer risk. Workers are permitted an exposure of max 250 mSv before they have to be withdrawn. In this case, max exposure time is 15 – 20 mins, hardly enuf time to access and repair the pumps.

The task now must surely be to find the source(s) of the radiation leakage and get those fixed ASAP before work can be done on the pumps. Don’t look good as there is probably already a partial meltdown.

[SAHM_TAN]

Way2GO:

28th March 2011


The highly radioactive stagnant water in the Reactors’ basement is hindering access to the cooling pumps.
The radiation at Unit 1 – 4 are all in excess of 260 mSv,
with Unit 3 which used a mixture of Uranium and Plutonium fuel, highest at 1,750 mSv.
Radiation in excess of 100 mSv increases cancer risk. Workers are permitted an exposure of max 250 mSv before they have to be withdrawn. In this case, max exposure time is 15 – 20 mins, hardly enuf time to access and repair the pumps.

The task now must surely be to find the source(s) of the radiation leakage and get those fixed ASAP before work can be done on the pumps. Don’t look good as there is probably already a partial meltdown.

So now either miracle or to hear the worst possible news from Japan