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@ bo - and that has very much been the official strategy - say as little as possible as late as possible and nobody much will worry.

@hudebnik and if you have a compliant press, and no governmental oversight,
it is a brilliant strategy

When this first started, I mentioned TEPCO's confusion about per shift and per year limits. I think they are still confused.

@hudebnik and so managing public opinion becomes as important, if not more, than managing the crisis, at least to the current govt.

How could any worker get 100 mSv total dose when they had no meters for the first month?

Tepco lacked radiation meters after tsunami "Tokyo Electric Power Co lost most of its dosimeters for workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant when the tsunami from a 9.0 magnitude quake tore into the plant, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said on Friday." But why did it take a month to replace them?

@Ralph Unger The news you linked says "Tokyo Electroc Power Co lost MOST of its dosimeters [...]". In clear English that means they still had some, and we have known that since the first few days. They have been monitoring radiation since day 1.

@Pedro, they had to assume that all member of a team had the same dose, that lead to 2 worker s going to the hospitol.

@Ralph Unger There is no evidence that the two workers who were assisted in the hospital fell sick because of radiation exposure. Lets stick to facts.

I am talking about the ones that got alpha burns.

Yep

@Ralph Unger Give me a few minutes, I'm going through the reports so you can see for yourself. I'll link it soon.

The team boos had such instruments, but he was not the one laying cables.

Or are you gonna tell me that there was no way to tell that that water was very contaminated unless you were a Rhodes scholar?

Radioactive strontium detected more than 30 km from Fukushima plant "Minute amounts of radioactive strontium have been detected in soil and plants in Fukushima Prefecture beyond the 30-kilometer zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the science ministry said Tuesday." mdn.mainichi.jp

Yes it replaces calcium if I recall correctlty.

Real world, I have a I-131 gun, It shoots 100 bullets at your DNA every hour.But does not shoot for long, Strontium is like a sniper, it shoots a lot less bullets, but it keeps on shooting them for 30 years.

Skin actually deflects a lot of radiation. So what you inhale or eat, it is a much worse thing.

The ones they usualy talk about should be the ones that manifest in your body afaik? Iodine, Cecium, Strontium etc

Also, I heard from someone up at the RERF that they were told that workers did not follow orders in the first week because it would have made then exceed their annual allowable limits of radiation. This, I was told, was why they raised the permissible limits one week in. The implication was that steps that could have been taken that would have helped to alleviate the severity of the situation were not taken because workers refused to follow orders, instead following protocol. Of course this seemed to be like blaming the workers for the situation.

I have wondered why there was not a stockpile of rad monitors in Tokyo, or somewhere in a TEPCO facility for just such a situation.