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e.nikkei.com

Preview of restricted news item from Nikkei:
Radiation Exposure Level Nears Limit For 1 Worker At Fukushima Plant
TOKYO (Kyodo)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that the level of radiation exposure for one of its employees came close to the legal yearly limit of 250 millisieverts at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Thanks Alblee that is an improved ..
by ALBLEE edited by elainekirk 4/30/2011 8:46:26 AM

www.chinareviewnews.com 2011-04-30 14:38:18

Neutral agency Xinhua in Hong Kong April 30 / Tokyo Electric Power Company on April 29 warned that the first nuclear power plant Unit 1 of Fukushima reactor "hydrogen explosion may occur," is due to nuclear reactor pressure vessel temperature and pressure drop.

China Daily reported that Tokyo Electric Power Company said the Unit 1 reactor, 55% of the fuel rods had dissolved. Destruction of the cooling system, atomic furnace temperature, injection of large amounts of water each day to reduce the atomic temperature of the furnace in order to prevent causing a large number of nuclear leakage. However, due to excessive fuel rods dissolved, the normal processing has been very difficult, so the final to take the "water coffin" type of solution that is injected every day 10 tons of water nuclear reactor. However, this led to atomic furnace temperature and pressure is too low, the pressure is too low, then hydrogen explosion may occur.
translate.google.com

Tokyo Electric Power Company 29, also revealed that, in order to prevent hydrogen explosion, decided to reduce the injection rate to 6 tons per day. This also means that the first reactor in a temporary suspension of the "Water coffin" program.
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 8:47:43 AM

@ALBLEE My understanding is that illustration is a possible approach to tend the SFP without the crane intact.
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 8:47:46 AM

Thanks, @Rob_in_SF. I feel better now.
by ALBLEE 4/30/2011 8:48:14 AM

@elainekirk That should be major news. Haven't seen it yet.
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 8:55:51 AM

@rob I wonder if it is a case of they dare not withold news from China? I would be rather cross if my neighbour failed to inform me he had left the gas on .
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 8:57:13 AM

This is all I see of late:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said at least one worker at its damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power has been exposed to radiation levels near the maximum level allowed by the government.

The man, hospitalized for radiation burns last month, was exposed to 240.8 millisieverts of radiation, company spokesman Takashi Kurita said at a press conference in Tokyo today. The ***ulative maximum level for nuclear workers, set by the government, is 250 millisieverts.
www.bloomberg.com
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 8:59:19 AM

And earlier in the week there was the woman:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that one of its female employees was exposed to radiation doses far above the legal limit at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -- the latest revelation of lax radiation management by the plant operator since the crisis erupted last month.
mdn.mainichi.jp
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 9:02:37 AM

@rob so more than 1? another yahoo report says 21 hk.news.yahoo.com
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:04:45 AM

They did say "at least one".

Are we buying this?...

TEPCO has also released the results of an analysis of the radioactive substances in the fuel pool's water, which it collected on April 28. Iodine (half-life of eight days) in the water had 27 becquerels of radioactivity per cubic centimeter, about 90 percent lower than the level detected on April 13. Radioactive levels of cesium-134 (half-life of two years) and cesium-137 (half-life of 30 years) had also dropped by about 50 to 60 percent from levels detected on April 13. There was 1.6 times as much water in the fuel pool this time as on the previous sampling, which is thought to have diluted the radioactivity. Based on these results, TEPCO said, "We believe that additional radioactive substances have not been released (into the pool)."
mdn.mainichi.jp

Diluted? Or leaked into the environs?
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 9:07:35 AM

@rob I would imagine that with all the junk the water in that pool is not going to be clear so they must be looking/sampling/videoing in the spraying area
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:11:38 AM

@elainekirk I'm not clear on what that article says...
Measurement of the following 21 books, tools and personnel exceeded 100 毫希值 radiation outside the base before March Eternal City. 以來 April 9 毫希 100 personnel have completed or exceeded the amount of radiation.
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 9:11:43 AM

@elainekirk You saw this? It's pretty clear... www.youtube.com
by Rob in SF edited by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:13:40 AM

@rob I was trying to wait for English language reports but they are not happening and relying on translate has it's drawbacks but do you not think that failing to inform re the number over the limit plus not releasing news of the cancelation of #1 olympic pool ambitions stinks somewhat?
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:14:48 AM

@elainekirk They did announce that they were all going to band together and speak with one voice to avoid redundancy and confusion, which means it will take forever to get new info now.
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 9:16:24 AM

@rob it is ridicul;ous our governments should be getting the information and passing it on but they pretend they are avoiding panic and everything is fine.
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:19:09 AM

blogs.forbes.com

Woman at Fukushima Nuclear Plant Received Excess Level of Radiation
Apr. 27 2011 - 3:27 pm
By Osha Gray Davidson, The EDISON 2.0 Blog

A woman working at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (FDI) was exposed to radiation three times higher than the legal limit, according to a statement today by the plant operators.

The woman worked at FDI for 11 days in March, according to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), after the March 11th crisis began. TEPCO didn’t say why it waited a month to make the news public.

The woman was exposed to 17.55 millisieverts of radiation. The legal exposure limit for female nuclear plant workers in Japan is 5 millisieverts over 3 months.

Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in Japan, said that TEPCO had received a verbal reprimand for the incident and will receive a written one.

TEPCO minimized the incident, saying that, “we have confirmed by a medical diagnosis that there is no impact on her health.”

Such a statement can be misleading. Only extremely high doses of radiation have an immediate impact on a person’s health. The primary threat to nuclear workers is the long-term prospect of developing cancer from lower levels of radiation.

“This exposure business is not terribly straight forward,” cautions Dr. Alan Lockwood, professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine Director at the University of Buffalo.

The woman’s prognosis depends on whether or not “deep organs” were affected, and that can’t be known without more information on how the radiation levels were obtained.

Lockwood, who is past-president of the group Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a current member of its national board, said, “In general, deep doses are more serious than skin doses because the skin is less radiosensitive than deep organs.”

He added that the woman has a “small increased risk” of developing cancer at some point in the future.

UPDATE: Japanese public TV says that the woman who was exposed to the excess level of radiation is 50 years old and that most of the radiation was internal, suggesting that she may have inhaled radioactive dust particles.
by ALBLEE edited by alblee 4/30/2011 9:19:47 AM

@ALBLEE Look at KYYODO news, the original headline says worker exceeds limit............than headline immediatly follows.......no risk to health.....For me IMHO Kyodo is out of the question as a reliable news source, too many times, they post something and immediatly post a counter message...I am done with them.
by Veen Oui 4/30/2011 9:23:51 AM

When govs are informed by the pharma lobby that there is going to be a flu outbreak that will kill millions (annual event these days) then they rush to buy vaccines produced by the big pharma's and then use media outlets to panic everybody into being vaccinated.
When govs are informed that a nuke plant has commenced contaminating the planet they rush to take advice (paid for) from the nuke lobby who advise them to play it down or there will be anti nuke activities amongst the natives and without nuke there would be dire financia consequences so they don't panic the public
hmmmm
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:25:43 AM

@elainekirk : the Tamiflu Rumsfeld method.
by Edano 4/30/2011 9:34:34 AM

@Edano This is from Germany and has RSS
by Veen Oui 4/30/2011 9:35:35 AM

geofon.gfz-potsdam.de
by Veen Oui 4/30/2011 9:35:36 AM

There is a report here quoting gov sources saying that ocean pollution is growing and cesium is being found at greater depths yet ...
translate.google.co.uk
Previously, only from the Ministry of Education of less than 200 meters deep in water samples collected to detect radioactive material. Latest test results show that the first nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima pollution is growing.
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:36:26 AM

Quick-and-dirty translation of some passages in the hk.yahoo news report Mandarin version.
by alblee 4/30/2011 9:42:57 AM

@alblee thanks so it is quite obvious we are not being given the news :(
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 9:45:58 AM

@elainekirk, it would seem so. Heh heh. HK.Yahoo got that from Singtao Chinese Daily.
by ALBLEE 4/30/2011 9:47:45 AM

Or it might mean Singtao has a diligent sniffer on the ground (or informer)...
by ALBLEE 4/30/2011 9:49:11 AM

@ALBLEE Your finding, also proves that KYODO is NOT reporting truthfully, yet again
by Veen Oui 4/30/2011 9:51:36 AM

www.singtao.com

Now, for some keywords: Anybody who wishes to adventurously search within a Japanese or Chinese web page for the keywords Fukushima or Daiichi or nuclear may submit the following:

福島第一原子力発電所 --> Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

福島 --> Fukushima

福島第一 --> Fukushima Daiichi, and you know which two chars for Daiichi

原子 --> atom or nuclear
by ALBLEE edited by alblee 4/30/2011 9:53:40 AM

@rob have you found anything further? and were those bubbles rising in that vid?
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 10:01:11 AM

Yes, I asked dean about the bubbles, and then he made his students do some experiment. Bubbles are not normal. Fukushima is a sea-level, and TEPCO has never admitted measuring over 90C. So where's their sensor, because it's 100C+ somewhere down there...
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 10:04:06 AM

So, if they hadn't raised the standard from 100 to 250...
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 10:06:00 AM

@elainekirk There was this one too... www.youtube.com
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 10:08:26 AM

@elainekirk They need Ramsey to clean their act up oh Bloody Hell..off to watch KM :-)
by Veen Oui 4/30/2011 10:10:36 AM

@veenoui Japan govs nuclear advisor resigned because they wouldnt listen to him we can hope that he will talk

by elainekirk 4/30/2011 10:14:10 AM

Thanks, @elainekirk. Wuzz actually thinking of ways to touch base with him; methinks easiest would be through a Japan-based scribbler... First agenda is to entice him into our circle.
by ALBLEE edited by alblee 4/30/2011 10:15:38 AM

The International Atomic Energy Agency plans to send a team to Japan in mid-May to inspect the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, IAEA sources said Friday.
www.houseofjapan.com
The team, composed of IAEA officials and experts from some countries, will stay in Japan for about a week and conduct on-site inspections of the complex in Fukushima Prefecture operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co, the sources said. The team is also expected to conduct on-the-spot inspections of the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, located near the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture operated by Tohoku Electric Power Co, which were automatically shut down after the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

Members of the team plan to meet with officials of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry partly to evaluate the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 10:16:22 AM

@ALBLEE I dug up his email for Nancy. Got the impression she was emailing him.
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 10:18:42 AM

Here is a blogger out there who doesn't believe in standing on ceremony and he names groups that we can maybe find on the net to get a better picture linhvienthai.blogspot.com
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 10:20:26 AM

@ALBLEE He's a big shot. The Nuclear Lab at Tokyo University is named after him.
by Rob in SF edited by alblee 4/30/2011 10:21:40 AM

@elainekirk This is the fourth time i read that the IAEA is sending a team.....none of the three times before were anything heard from..... did anyone ?
by Veen Oui 4/30/2011 10:24:56 AM

@alblee memo to self 'just do it woman! he ain't gonna bite' reply to self ' but I am a total dunce when it comes to communications' response to self 'nobody is gonna do it for you so just get on with it'....
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 10:29:10 AM

@Veenoui nope they just oodle along till some pesky reporter nags them enough then they give a 'we are sending a team' stateent.
Truth of the matter imho is that Tepco is exercising it's autominous state in law and refusing access and Japan or the international community need to come up with a law giving them access pretty darned quick
by elainekirk 4/30/2011 10:34:28 AM

@ALBLEE Yes... The PM's former advisor, Toshizo Kosako.
kosako＠nuclear.jp
Here's his faculty page as well:
www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
by Rob in SF 4/30/2011 10:40:04 AM