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Ahh, OK.

@all, here are some pics of ground zero here in Hiroshima. The first pic is of the dome and sakura (taken last year) the other pics were all taken today on my bike ride to work. Ground zero is a few blocks behind the dome on a side street and is only marked with a small brown marker. All of the sites related to the bombing use these brown markers. In Nagasaki, ground zero is the center of the park, but here most people come to Hiroshima and never find ground zero. Very strange. A colleague of mine always likes to go for a drink at the bar closest to ground zero. gallery.me.com

U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids search.japantimes.co.jp ""(Twenty millisieverts) for children exposes them to a 1 in 200 risk of getting cancer. And if they are exposed to this dose for two years, the risk is 1 in 100. There is no way that this level of exposure can be considered 'safe' for children," the statement said."

@Markfm Raising the "safe" levels is fracking criminal. Makes me sick that any human could be so callous and have so little regard for any life besides their own.

@dean I thought the Hot sludge came from Ibraki?prefecture, but as with most, can't relocate the link that had specific info.

@dean The sludge at a treatment centre in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, had 26,400 becquerels of radioactive caesium per kilogram, Jiji Press reported citing local government officials, dpa reported.

At the centre located some 50 kilometres west of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, slag made by reducing the volume of sewage sludge had 334,000 becquerels per kilogram, Jiji said. en.trend.az

@Markfm We were discussing that this past weekend. The puddle he stepped in was measured at 2-6 Sieverts, and the 240.8 mSv or whatever they're quoting has not been clarified as to how measured. Dean has stressed that any testing MUST be full body.
AFAIK, we as yet we have no indication that these figures are such.

@dean I have to get some work done on my pipe chasing and read up more on the cleaning/deminerlize water systems... but from what i have looked at quickly the whole systems tie to gether and are intergral to maintaining the pool water and the reactor water... the sludge would be the particals left from the filtering process

@Markfm If it took that long to determine their dose, than it truly is a wonder that they both 'happened' to have sustained *just* under the 'legal' limit for exposure. What a coincidence... *rolls eyes*

@bo I've got too many miles, no current job, and several HD cameras with rigs...

@RBeaner What I mean is, if they had the sense to pull the workers at the time of the exposure (because it was clearly dangerous enough to do so), but had no idea at the time of exactly how much radiation they had received, it seems downright miraculous that the moment they chose to pull the worked just 'happened' to be within 20mSv of the legal limit, but still below it.