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@Dennis Tucker Jr It says that they analysed for all isotopes in the table, but that some did not amount to the "detection value".

@KT39 0,3 mBq/m3 was measured as far away as Stockholm (Sweden) four days ago.

Animated Fukishima dispersion cloud over northern hemisphere db.eurad.uni-koeln.de

@kb 0.3 mBq/m3 sounds like pretty much nothing though.. About one decay per hour per cubic meter - amazed it's even possible to distinguish that from the general background radiation.

@radioguy: every country thinks their engineers are the most competent and that their regulatory agency will effectively enforce the regulations....i read somewhere that these old reactors are like atm's for their respective energy company's.

Sorry, I thought I could post two pictures. Here the flight from the 15th again: imgur.com

@Dennis Tucker: your opinion please. I've followed this site from the beginning of this EVENT. This morning I noticed Dean posted it as well. Zero Hedge - Following the eariler TEMPCO flap, here is a simple way to resolve the true radioactivity at reactor 2 - "All that needs to be disclosed now is how long these workers were in the contaminated water for. If it was between 2 and 6 hours, and the cumulative exposure was 2 - 6 sieverts, it would be rather consistent with the reported record exposure of 1 sievert/hour. If it was shorter, and the upper estimate is correct, the exposure could be as high as 6 sieverts/hour, a figure, based on the prior methodology, about 60 million times higher than permitted". www.zerohedge.com

@all remember that sieverts are "absorbed dose" if we are talking about wounds on the legs and water getting into the wounds, even a lower dose of environmental radiation will cause a higher dose of absorbed radiation. Internal radiation can increase sieverts by 1000x fold.

@Nancy : yes, but they can't impossibly leave it hanging on a crane for a long period. in case of an earthquake this is completely unstable !

@matsucko regards to lifting apparatus on video, do you know what building it was - having volume issue at the moment and do not read japanize?

@fitter #4

TEPCO says the radioactive materials include 2.9-billion (not million, is this the error that led to the 10 million figure?) becquerels of iodine-134, 13-million becquerels of iodine-131, and 2.3-million becquerels each for cesium 134 and 137.

@radioguy december

also, based on the amount of radiation in this pool, I doubt they sent someone in to get a new sample. Using a 5 hour old sample to test for isotopes that only last 1-2hr's of course the results will be much, much lower.

[OPINION] An example of how the Japanese government manages extreme crisis can be found in their response to the economic "Bubble" catastrophe of the 1990s. Japan was on top of the world back then when suddenly their economy exploded, property values plummeted and the Nikkei went from 38.9K to below 10K. The Japanese opted for a slow, incremental approach to resolving the problem, an approach that is still in operation decades later. Contrast this with the US approach to the Savings & Loan crisis of the 80s or the much more recent economic crisis of 2008 --Extraordinary stimulus and clean up activities. I do not personally feel that slow, incremental steps will resolve the Fukushima crisis in an optimal manner. I hope that despite evidence to the contrary, the Japanese authorities are aggressively engaged & not quietly preparing themselves for a 30 year program of timid counter-measures.

Tepco Chief Pressured to Quit After Costing Holders $26 Billion - www.businessweek.com I think it's going to be a lot more than 26 billion...

@radioguy, obviously.

@Miles @Tenzing Thanks. I have read the same article Tenzing have read. What is strange also is that the video we have all seen whas showing lesion on an arm ... When exposed to such radioactivity, even if it is by the feets, all the body show problems, I don't think 1000 millisiverts have show these wounds "one day after" , and if we look at Chernobyl last footage, the only one who seem to have the same wounding were people exposed to several dozen Siverts or sometime hundreds. [opinion]

@Miles idk. GoJ is already saying they will cover costs of tsunami repairs for all people in affected areas. TEPCO might be "too big to fail" *GAG*

@Miles Yep...the TEPCO chief is going to be the first guy thrown under the bus for the Fukushima disaster. I knew that was going to happen when he apologized publicly a few days ago.

Well, they announced that TEPCO will be liable for damages etc. There is no way they'll be able to pay that, so guess shareholders will get wiped out and the rest nationalised/guaranteed by the state and later re-privatised or some such.