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@elainekirk2001 was just reading same... in plan terms that now means the data statistics regarding exposure... has become "as they determine" that verbage gives big companies the leway to decide "if and how it will be recorded" see it all the time in our business... an employee sitting in a chair 8 hrs a day with a broken leg and bandage arm... is NOT concidered a "lost time day" because he is AT work"... this is why the data is always so "low"... laywers run the world!! sorry to all laywers...

@NHK Listener -- 1,000 mSv/h in Unit 2 trench - sure looks like Unit 2 containment is waterlogged, and leaking. Only alternative explanation I can imagine is overflow from flooding SFP's, but I think that less likely. Any experts out there care to comment?

good morning to every one.... I'm up and making coffee.... anyone want a cup ? %(__)...

good morning borrden.. I just woke up and typed it in that way ..

All Press Conferences by the Chief Cabinet Secretary. Might want to add this to the sticky nettv.gov-online.go.jp

Sorry, that is water in the turbine building of reactor 2...

@borrrden.. that is a high level.. 1 sv/hr.. wow

if they see what's called fresh fission fragments from a fission .. then yes.. it's the only way they can be seen, from a reactor physics standpoint tho.. it seems unprecedented to have a fission with out the criticality happening. if criticality occurs I don't think it would be a sustained one but it could release fission fragments like those

I'm off to work now. Let's hope the situation get's better before I'm back. CU @ll

good morning fitter.. I saw your question and wrote it down.. I will post all the questions people want here

Does the Fukushima fallout have any effect on atmospheric conditions.......I am wondering if a change in weather pattern is possible as it was in Europe with Acid rain ?.thanks
@dean Maybe ask about some consistecy concerning units of measurements so laypersons are not so confused? Jim
@Dean: I'd like to have an opinion about #3 reactor. Comparing to #4 and documents we have seen about Mark I desing, it seems to me that the building has collapsed lower than the top of the spent fuel pool. If so, its integrity could not have been preserved. Anyone knowing this plant design saying that I'm wrong would be great....
@dean Survey what they think caused #2 torus to rupture? Seems like the biggest unknown to me. Thanks
all if anyone see dean on (have to go to work) he was asking for questions yesterday.. could you please have him ask if there are any sites following "what systems" they may have back on line and the damage control? thanks would greatly appreciate it!!

@elainekirk Better?

make sure we don't get mixed up on a puddle.. like water... with the molten fuel if it has melted into what some may say puddle. the puddle of water in the turbine building contains radioactive particles which are emitting the high radiation level, removal of the water would probably leave behind some residue of the contamination and still be very high.

brb.. need to go prepare for my day

I'd like to understand how high radiation travels underground vs. the atmosphere? I'm thinking of radiation as it relates to ground saturation.

@Scilla, that may be a typo. Late last night that exact number was ascribed to water in the ocean just north of the plant. It wasn't in standing water at the complex.

From MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub: "Introduction to Radiation Health Effects and Radiation Status at Fukushima" Lots of very helpful information - well worth the time to read mitnse.com

Hmm. From the JAIF report, "It is presumed that radioactive material inside the reactor vessel would have leaked outside the containment vessel at unit-1, 2 and unit-3, based on the investigation of the water sampled at turbine building" So would that mean the reactors have breached or melted through, or just that water from the core is leaking back out the routes used to run water through?

@Nancy, watch the professor I linked to before your post.

@dean inteview article with employees in bld#3 at time of quake, before Isumani spoke of "steam or fire" unable to breath" (10 mins.) does sound like they had piping/mechanical faluire from the beging... steam relief vavle (using diagm.) looks like it will release 1st to the bottom of contaiment (toruts) very litte info to go on, just one employee and one interview... sounds like they are dealing with many types of breaches... the mechanical acesses to the contaiment vessel and secondary building create many pathways. look back at the actual picture of "under construction" every stub is a connection... with a potenial leak.. and the piping route to it.....

nancy.. in general.. there can be contamination in water that and it stays there but if that water gets outside it begins to seep in the ground and can carry the contamination with it... depending on how deep the water table is, those particles can migrate through rain water that seeps in or other from snow etc. the earth is a great filter but there is a chance it can get down to the water table and show up in water like we've seen... the other one is AIRBOURNE.. those particles that get airbourne through some mechanism.. like those explosions where particles are released to the atmosphere and then get carried off into the air and up to the jet stream then carried around the globe depending on winds... etc..