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(AP:KORIYAMA, Japan) Japan's nuclear crisis intensified Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns and more than 170,000 people evacuated the quake- and tsunami-savaged northeastern coast where fears spread over possible radioactive contamination.

Nuclear plant operators were frantically trying to keep temperatures down in a series of nuclear reactors _ including one where officials feared a partial meltdown could be happening Sunday _ to prevent the disaster from growing worse.

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At least 160 people were being tested for radiation exposure

Of the 100 people evacuated by bus, nine had been tested and one had been shown initially with a radiation count of 100,000cpm -- a level at which experts say a person needs to be decontaminated. The other eight people showed counts ranging between 18,000cpm and 40,000cpm.

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CT scans have been linked, in medical journals peer-reviewed, to be linked to some number that was quite very large.....no of cancers.

of course, this is usually from multiple CT scans.

but the industry is aware, and redesigning and improving the scanners to have decreased amount of radiation.... an overhaul that is in process.

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CNN:

At least 160 people were being tested for radiation exposure

Of the 100 people evacuated by bus, nine had been tested and one had been shown initially with a radiation count of 100,000cpm -- a level at which experts say a person needs to be decontaminated. The other eight people showed counts ranging between 18,000cpm and 40,000cpm.

something just doesn't add up to what Japan is saying

assuming no one lives right by the plant, (and that looks to be the case judging by google earth) then how did these people get all that radiation?

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CNN describing the nuclear situation:

"The situation is under control," a prime minister's office spokesman says

but is that an "old" statement?

Fox news reporter said we have new info............. a news conference just ended and they said that time is running out and they may have to seal off reactor one, as in bury it in cement, in the next few hours

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Radiation levels 700 times higher than normal is lower than a CT scan? Are you joking with me?

I think this a really important point that the retarded media just doesn't want to discuss......they are freaking people out by giving that 700 times more than normal or 1000 times more than normal figure and people think a bomb just went off......christ....if you camped out next to a plant for a year you would get more radiation from the sun than from the plant......I realize it's bad and they need to get this thing under control and it's important to get the info out there but really really irresponsible reporting.......I also think so far the bigger problem is THE MASSIVE WAVE THAT ABSOLUTELY OBLITERATED EVERYTHING.......or did we forget about that....:axe:

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but is that an "old" statement?

Fox news reporter said we have new info............. a news conference just ended and they said that time is running out and they may have to seal off reactor one, as in bury it in cement, in the next few hours

The article was published at 11:15 AM.

You go from one news site, they say it is not good and then you go to another site and they say the situation is under control. Very confusing.

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I think this a really important point that the retarded media just doesn't want to discuss......they are freaking people out by giving that 700 times more than normal or 1000 times more than normal figure and people think a bomb just went off......christ....if you camped out next to a plant for a year you would get more radiation from the sun than from the plant......I realize it's bad and they need to get this thing under control and it's important to get the info out there but really really irresponsible reporting.......I also think so far the bigger problem is THE MASSIVE WAVE THAT ABSOLUTELY OBLITERATED EVERYTHING.......or did we forget about that....:axe:

:lol:

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From BBC:

1541: A former nuclear power plant designer has said Japan is facing an extremely grave crisis and called on the government to release more information, which he said was being suppressed. Masashi Goto told a news conference in Tokyo that one of the reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant was “highly unstable”, and that if there was a meltdown the “consequences would be tremendous”. He said such an event might be very likely indeed. So far, the government has said a meltdown would not lead to a sizeable leak of radioactive materials.

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but is that an "old" statement?

Fox news reporter said we have new info............. a news conference just ended and they said that time is running out and they may have to seal off reactor one, as in bury it in cement, in the next few hours

Why in earth would they need to seal it with cement if the main containment system is still intact?

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From BBC:

1541: A former nuclear power plant designer has said Japan is facing an extremely grave crisis and called on the government to release more information, which he said was being suppressed. Masashi Goto told a news conference in Tokyo that one of the reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant was “highly unstable”, and that if there was a meltdown the “consequences would be tremendous”. He said such an event might be very likely indeed. So far, the government has said a meltdown would not lead to a sizeable leak of radioactive materials.

I thought the situation was under control? lol.

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<LI class=type-9999>1558: He described the worst-case scenario: "It is difficult to say, but that would be a core meltdown. If the rods fall and mix with water, the result would be an explosion of solid material like a volcano spreading radioactive material. Steam or a hydrogen explosion caused by the mix would spread radioactive waste more than 50km. Also, this would be multiplied. There are many reactors in the area so there would be many Chernobyls."<LI class=type-9999>

1553: He accused the government of deliberately withholding vital information that would allow outside experts help solve the problems. "For example, there has not been enough information about the hydrogen being vented. We don't know how much was vented and how radioactive it was." He also described the use of sea water to cool the cores of the reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi as highly unusual and dangerous.<LI class=type-9999>

1548: Mr Goto said the reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant were suffering pressure build-ups way beyond that for which they were designed. There was a severe risk of an explosion, with radioactive material being strewn over a very wide area - beyond the 20km evacuation zone set up by the authorities - he added. Mr Goto calculated that because Reactor No 3 at Fukushima-Daiichi - where pressure is rising and there is a risk of an explosion - used a type of fuel known as Mox, a mixture of plutonium oxide and uranium oxide, the radioactive fallout from any meltdown might be twice as bad.<LI class=type-9999>

1541: A former nuclear power plant designer has said Japan is facing an extremely grave crisis and called on the government to release more information, which he said was being suppressed. Masashi Goto told a news conference in Tokyo that one of the reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant was "highly unstable", and that if there was a meltdown the "consequences would be tremendous". He said such an event might be very likely indeed. So far, the government has said a meltdown would not lead to a sizeable leak of radioactive materials.

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Aughhh so many conflicting reports!! One moment everything is under control, the next moment a meltdown is imminent, then it's back to being under control. but now it's imminent again!! axesmiley.png

"If it should become necessary to fight, could you arrange to find me some rocks to throw at them?"

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CNN:

At least 160 people were being tested for radiation exposure

Of the 100 people evacuated by bus, nine had been tested and one had been shown initially with a radiation count of 100,000cpm -- a level at which experts say a person needs to be decontaminated. The other eight people showed counts ranging between 18,000cpm and 40,000cpm.

I believe a count of 100,000cpm equates to 100 mR/hr. In the US the acceptable yearly exposure for a nuclear power worker is 5000 mR . So decontamination is needed because after 50 hours 5000mR would be reached.

The media seems intent on using the measurement scale that produces the biggest scariest numbers.

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1606: A pump within the cooling system of one of the reactors at the Tokai nuclear power plant has stopped working, according to the Kyodo news agency. The plant is located in the Naka district of the central prefecture of Ibaraki, and is operated by the Japan Atomic Power Company.

At this rate we're going to need to start listing the nuclear plants in Japan that ARE NOT having problems instead of the ones that are.

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I think all we can say at this point is that something not good is happening in Japan.

I mean you have conflicting reports every few minutes. The PM doesn't want to scare the people of the country. No one really knows what the hell is happening except the people on the scene(s)

You have 50 different 'experts' saying 50 different things. Anything could happen, only time will tell, could be no big deal, could be the biggest deal the world has seen.

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what do the french know?

The French Embassy urged its citizens Sunday to leave the area around Tokyo _ 170 miles (270 kilometers) from Fukushima Dai-ichi _ in case the crisis deepened and a "radioactive plume" headed for the area around the capital. The statement acknowledged that the possibility was looking unlikely.

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