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(Thinking to self) When you add a number with five digits of apparent precision (201.80) to one with two digits of apparent precision (39), isn't your answer only precise to two digits?

Average individual background radiation dose: 0.23μSv/h (0.00023mSv/h); 0.17μSv/h for Australians, 0.34μSv/h for Americans.

Highest reported level during Fukushima accident: 1000 mSv/h reported as the level at a pool of water in the turbine room of reactor two.
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Have some new news from a reporter. They are going to attempt to put air filtration systems into unit 1. The air cooled plan will require extensive human construction work. They are also looking for a building on site sturdy enough to plug doors etc. and use as a pool to hold water. He spoke to construction workers on site who said they have no clue how to go about putting pillars under #4 SFP.

@Rob in SF I think the problem is that wthout that high a permissable level, they would have to evacuate larger areas, including probably much if not all of Fukushima City. The plume in map you posted pretty much points right at Fukushima City.

@elainekirk my coffee has not kicked in yet, what article am I looking for?

@Rob in SF Not a bad idea as long as the building is really sturdy and partially underground. Otherwise they run the risk of walls buckling under the outward pressure like an above ground pool.

@Nancy Easy to buttress the walls though. Just bulldozing gravel up to the walls should suffice.

@General Armchair Here is my big issue with the insufficient evacuation zones, vague or high dose limits etc. The people in those areas that are not declared evacuation zones or are being exposed to levels under the high dose limits will get zero help. They will get no compensation. They will not get any help or money for relocating. So unless they have significant savings to move at their own cost what are they to do? This goes for the children dosage levels. The govt. is pushing to reopen schools and doing the dirt scraping to try to get them to a point they can be opened. It is a money thing. They don't want to lose more land and local economy and they are willing to risk people's lives and health to do it. It is just criminal.

@Nancy, not to spoil your morning but just playing devil's advocate ... knowing the realities there, on the ground, part of the news sourcing territory is gingerly sniffing for plants, but that is such a difficult thing to do.

They are doing the same thing by hiking the permissable doses for workers. You get zapped by 200 mSv and develop something in 10 years, you are SOOL.

@ALBEE You made a comment a while ago about Russians giving back to Japanese, in reference to "mega-float." Unless there's another mega-float out there, I'm pretty sure the "mega-float" is coming from Japan itself. It had been a sort of floating park for a seaside communty there. Cryptome had some pics and captions about it, can't remember which set.

@Rob in SF. It's an old topic, but, if the water had 2-6 sieverts and I stood in it for a while and my feet got wet and then I got a burn on my leg.....not sure I buy any millisievert estimate.

@Scilla He allegedly has 240.08 mSv IIRC.

@Nancy Not to mention that not all workers didn't even HAVE dosimeters for a while. Only after the story broke did TEPCO think about driving a station wagon to one of their other plants and picking up a couple gross for Daiichi workers to use. Took them 24 hours to figure that out, once the story broke.