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[Nickbat]

Nickbat, media is not completely reflecting the truth.. you have right .. but its worse.. few minutes ago an expert talked and said, although level 5 is announced its actually 7 now.. why do proud Japan govt ask help from Usa..

There's always an expert about, Cem.

"The worst-case scenario would be where you have the fission products in stored canisters or in the reactors being released," said Professor Malcolm Sperrin, director of medical physics and clinical engineering at Royal Berkshire Hospital, UK.

"Radiation levels would then be very high around the plant, which is not to say they'd reach the general public.

"And we're definitely not in the situation where we're going to see another Chernobyl - that possibility has long gone."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12789749

 

[Debs.]

Nick, I`d dearly love to believe that story; but Japanese State broadcaster NHK, are reporting it in VERY less reassuring tones......so, I`ll be trusting their reportage.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

It was the Daini reactors that have achied cold shutdown. The Daiichi reactors 3 & 4 are still troublesome.

Indeed!

....and, I`m an idiot for not seeing that!

[Nickbat]

Nick, I`d dearly love to believe that story; but Japanese State broadcaster NHK, are reporting it in VERY less reassuring tones......so, I`ll be trusting their reportage.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

It was the Daini reactors that have achied cold shutdown. The Daiichi reactors 3 & 4 are still troublesome.

Indeed!

....and, I`m an idiot for not seeing that!

No, Debs, I'm the idiot for not being clear!! 

[cem_devecioglu]

Nickbat, media is not completely reflecting the truth.. you have right .. but its worse.. few minutes ago an expert talked and said, although level 5 is announced its actually 7 now.. why do proud Japan govt ask help from Usa..

There's always an expert about, Cem.

"The worst-case scenario would be where you have the fission products in stored canisters or in the reactors being released," said Professor Malcolm Sperrin, director of medical physics and clinical engineering at Royal Berkshire Hospital, UK.

"Radiation levels would then be very high around the plant, which is not to say they'd reach the general public.

"And we're definitely not in the situation where we're going to see another Chernobyl - that possibility has long gone."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12789749

 

does he also say the situation is now under control..

nuclear power is an area  where so many unknowns fall down when you loose the control.. did you hear the nuclear particles has reached US west shores ? (although radiation levels are low)

I'n sure all of us are waiting god news but not porkies

[Nickbat]

does he also say the situation is now under control..

nuclear power is an area  where so many unknowns fall down when you loose the control.. did you hear the nuclear particles has reached US west shores ? (although radiation levels are low)

I'n sure all of us are waiting god news but not porkies

Yes they have registered particles in the US, but in absolutley minute amounts. People in SW England are exposed to far higher radiation levels from natural sources!

Indeed, I just read this:

It has been estimated that 17 million were exposed to significant radiation after Chernobyl and nearly 2,000 people have since developed thyroid cancer having consumed contaminated food and milk as children.

This is very serious, but nothing like the impact that had been expected, and a UN report identified psychological problems as the major consequence for health.

The perception of the extreme risk of radiation exposure is also somewhat contradicted by the experience of 87,000 survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who have been followed up for their whole lives.

By 1992, over 40,000 had died, but it has been estimated that only 690 of those deaths were due to the radiation. Again, the psychological effects were major.

Radiation does, however, feel acceptable when used in benign circumstances such as medical imaging. You can pay £100 ($160) and get a whole-body CT scan as part of a medical check-up, but it can deliver you a dose equivalent to being 1.5 miles from the centre of the Hiroshima explosion.

Because more than 70 million CT scans are carried out each year, the US National Cancer Institute has estimated that 29,000 Americans will get cancer as a result of the CT scans they received in 2007 alone.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-asia-pacific-12785274

[Lizzie_Zoom]

With everything else going on it is too easy to forget the Japanese disaster and move on.

But now [size=20]9,000[/size] deaths have been confirmed, and a further [size=24]12,000[/size] are still missing!

I think we all knew the situation was very bad when we first saw the TV pictures, and deaths would be high.  But it is no less shocking now to see the figures!

RIP to all who died, but God bless those that are left

[aaronjb]

In an effort to try and remind myself to be thankful for what I have and quit feeling sorry for myself: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12813630
 

[tunnie]

I was in Japan in September, just scanning through my pictures now to remind me what it should be like! 

[aaronjb]

I was in Japan in September, just scanning through my pictures now to remind me what it should be like! 

I was there last Feb too - as I said to a Japanese colleague (who is in Tokyo); I imagine if I went back there right now I wouldn't recognise it as the same place (even in Tokyo, from all accounts)

[tunnie]

I was in Japan in September, just scanning through my pictures now to remind me what it should be like! 

I was there last Feb too - as I said to a Japanese colleague (who is in Tokyo); I imagine if I went back there right now I wouldn't recognise it as the same place (even in Tokyo, from all accounts)

Its going to be years before its the same again, for me it makes it all the more real, the live news broadcasts from Tokyo, I recognise the small details, the way they hang posters from tube trains, the style of the streets, cabs, the stations. All looks familiar 

You know how Tokyo has a 7 eleven about every 50 feet, its scary to think they are all sold out as reports are suggesting 

[aaronjb]

Yup, Takuya (the colleague I mentioned) posted pictures on Facebook of his local supermarket - empty shelves as far as you could see.. Apparently as soon as food appeared, it disappeared - as he says, people 'should' be saving food for those in the most disaster stricken areas, but they're not; everyone is panic buying food & petrol  :-/

[Entwood]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12860842

At last .. a voice of reason ..

Unfortunately .. those with their own agendas will probably ignore both the tone and the facts as presented.... and attempt to argue with some speculative, unproved "what ifs"

Never let the truth get in the way of a scary headline ......

[aaronjb]

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/28/letters-from-fukushima-tepco-worker-emails/

[cem_devecioglu]

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/28/letters-from-fukushima-tepco-worker-emails/

so sad..