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@Hermine According to latest Kyodo update they didn't sustain any burns. They were treated for potential beta emission burns but didn't sustain any. All 3 workers have been discharged from the hospital on the 27th.

@Pedro Jesus @All... wasn't there a photo of a burn?? I thought there was.

So if this guy (and you on here that agree with him) www.cnn.com think this will come to pass (multiple core meltdowns, container breaches), what will that entail? Will it spew radioactive gas as they did before, or will it be mostly liquid local to the plant?

@Meretisa Show me.

So no "core catcher" other than bedrock at Fukushima, right?

@Hermine The feet were radiated. That was the extent of the burns from what I understand.. So red feet is all. As I understand they walked out of the hospital.(unconfirmed yet) People are waterproof so exposure was minimal

The video showing the burn was from a compilation from someone who made a youtube video. I think it was fake.

@Sin Exactly. They were just standing in the water, so their exposure was ONLY 2-6 Sv. If they went SWIMMING in it, exposure would have say 200 Sv (for example). They already took into account that they were standing in it to calculate their exposure.

That's the whole "point" of a Sievert, it's a standard dose because they ALREADY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT the point of contact. Note that in tables they don't say 2-6 Sv (if you breathe it, or 1 if you drink the water, etc.). It's just 1 Sv = 1Sv, REGARDLESS OF EXPOSURE TYPE.

@wtm 750 I believe.

@Yuri Yes. At 1000 mSv/ hour, workers can only be in contact with that basement water for 15 minutes FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR before being PERMANENTLY sent home. My guess is that those safety limits are not being followed.

@NHK Listener: No wounds? Take a look - about 10 seconds in to the video. www.youtube.com

@GoJ @all The men and women that build and work in idustrial plants put thier lives on the line every day... (even if you are the person on the line... the imfamous welders tourch can get you while you are standing there) these enviroents contain many potential explosive/chemcal dangers that even with the best of planning go wrong!!! until the day comes you are having to stop production because your employee went to the bathroom an hour ago and is still not back (might have fallen into the molten steel vat.... ) and the home office is getting next of kin... phone numbers... you really can not know how deep and chilling the "beam decap" joke can be....Found the emp..had a diabetic episode fell and was close to death-- emts saved his life... we must recpect all these workers.... and from what i have been reading about the ones in japan "the are just considered disposible" the steel plant here has 2-3 fatallities a year from the beams they make jumping off the line and killing the worker... does not even address the dangers of cutting into a steam/gas line...

NHK or Kyodo stated earlier today that the Tepco workers on-site now have around 100 mSv, with 250 being the new annual limit. That said some of the workers from the past 2.5 weeks have met their max and are off the job.

@Yuri Possibly. But according to the operator there have been only 19 workers from the team of nearly 400 that has been exposed to more then 100mSv. So I think they're still OK for now on that department.

Thank you for explaining. Information is the key :)

@Karen Warren Not a foot.. And

If there is a situation that the reactor cores do breach and become a "melt through" situation, I believe that because of the fact that the site is on a cliff area, that there is a chance that the cores could explode toward the water side of the site, rather than go straight down in the soil. That area has had a lot of sea water in the ground, which will provide explosions against a melting core. Those explosions will move the weaker soil, (the soil towards the cliff) and not the harder soil towards the land. Essentially, could have a core explosion and then eventually fall out into the ocean.

@Joshua -- ty. But I don't think reactors 5&6 are the problem!

search.japantimes.co.jp More rad doses to calculate and discuss. Need to exhume Geraldo Rivera and send him in to interview these people!

@George Gibb Sure, we can deal with the facts at hand. I just was asking what everyone thought the future might hold, given the recent past and present.