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Merged nuclear power safe?

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Second_fire_reported_at_unit_4_1603111.html

It seems they evacuated because it read 1000 micro sievert per hour... ?

Or are they speaking of another evacuation ?

At 8:34am local time white smoke was seen billowing out of Fukushima Daiichi 3. Efforts to determine the cause of this development were interrupted as all workers had evacuated to a safe area due to rising radiation readings. Readings from a sensor near the front gate had fluctuated for some time, although Edano said that on the whole there was no health hazard. Earlier in the morning readings had ranged between 600-800 microsieverts per hour, but at 10am readings rose to 1000 microsieverts per hour. Readings began to fall again from around 10:54.
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Rasmus said:
You forgot one of the middle steps: Keep pumping money into it at all times. Developing the transrapid and then neither selling or building it is all fine, but the fun don't really start until you build massive test tracks, maintain them for several years whilst technology elsewhere races past you and then fail several times over in getting at least a small commercial service established anywhere.

Rasmus,
who would have loved riding that thing to work every morning.
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Haha, too true. My dad was an engineer at MBB (now EADS) and spent 8 years working on a laser cannon that could shoot down planes.

After millions spent and assembling a working prototype the project was axed because the funds were needed for another useless German/French joint defense venture.

Don't know if that info still classified but I don't think anyone would care 20 years later.
 
pipelineaudio said:
Are you sure they went back in? The latest I can find says they pulled em and thats that
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Japanese live TV still reports that the crews are working as before - in shifts but now with a more frequent shift changes - as I posted earlier.

The Guardian article linked by Puppycow in his reply to you also says that the workers went back to work after 1 hour interruption following a spike in radiation. That 1 hour interruption was 2 hours before you posted and my reply.

I can understand I'm not a reliable source that you can independently verify immediately but that is what I see on live tv in Hiroshima, Japan. Take it for what it is worth.
 
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timhau said:
Fukushima, yes. Aepervius's old home, probably not.
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You are actually right , it was grating at that my memory was failing me, me so I just called my parents, I was recalling everything incorrectly (dose, time spent and quantity). I guess I should know better and check first before spouting nonsense.

*Aepervius go into a corner with a donkey hat*
 
pipelineaudio said:
Are you sure they went back in? The latest I can find says they pulled em and thats that
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They are now reporting (NHK) that helicopters are being used for bringing water since crews working on the ground can't work on pumping water into the cooling pool(s) fast enough and long enough.
 
pipelineaudio said:
I'd like to know more about why they pulled the guys out

The posts I see dont talk about being pulled out, they're using the term "abandoned"
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Maybe they've gotta take a crap, eat, sleep? Find their families? Have a bit of down time? When people are stressed too long they get careless. Who knows what's being spewed by what else is in that neighborhood.
 
Bluespaceoddity said:
The Guardian article linked by Puppycow in his reply to you also says that the workers went back to work after 1 hour interruption following a spike in radiation. That 1 hour interruption was 2 hours before you posted and my reply.
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Wasnt that guardian link earlier than the CNN one?
 
pipelineaudio said:
Wasnt that guardian link earlier than the CNN one?
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The situation has evolved again but that CNN article you referred to at approx. 2 pm JST was a report about the same event as the Guardian reported - from mid-morning JST. Both Guardian and CNN updated the story to note that workers returned to resume work after approx. 1 hour.

When I wrote my comment workers were back at the plant working in shifts but could not/were not allowed to approach the storage pool of reactor 4.

The latest news I saw on NHK showed that helicopters were being deployed to deliver water more rapidly and with smaller risks of exposure to higher levels of radiation.
 
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pipelineaudio said:
Are you sure they went back in? The latest I can find says they pulled em and thats that
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From the article Puppycow posted....

The workers were ordered to leave the facility after the level of radiation at the plant soared to 10 millisieverts per hour – above the level considered harmful to human health – possibly as a result of radioactive substances being emitted from the No 2 reactor. The reading later fell to around six millisieverts per hour, reports said, and they were allowed to return.

The evacuation followed another day of crisis at the plant, which has become the focus of the world's attention, even as rescue workers sift through the damage caused by the tsunami along a vast stretch of Japan's north-east coast.
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edited: opps, see it was already covered.
 
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Sword_Of_Truth said:
I doubt that. You're the most reflexive anti-nuclear poster on the forum.
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a few years ago, i voted in favor of nuclear power. also would i do so again today.

but i dont have to over glorify Nuclear technology nor do i have to downplay the dangers nor do i downplay the waste problem, like you love to do.

you are a total nuke shill. without any objectivity. and a wannabe expert.

But here on this forum, when you do not whorship nuclear technology, you are considered a Luditte
 
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DC said:
a few years ago, i voted in favor of nuclear power. also would i do so again today.
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I doubt that. Everytime the subject comes up you play the "I'm pro-nuclear" card and the head straight into bashing it.

You've refused to provide the qualifications of your "experts" when asked, even though others have provided theirs. Failing that you retreat into name calling and personal attacks and bizarre logical fallacies (eg. "It's the peoples democratic choice so you can't criticize it!").

Nuclear technology nor do i have to downplay the dangers nor do i downplay the waste problem, like you love to do.
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You mean that I am downplaying these concerns in the view of the "experts" you refuse to identify? What are you afraid of?

you are a total nuke shill. without any objectivity. and a wannabe expert.
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Aaaannnd more name-calling. Nice.
 
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