
@Ian I havent read it yet but I would assume they are talking about the 2 men that were killed at the start.
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:03:33 AM

@Ian Its hard to keep up with everything! So much information to absorb!
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:08:33 AM

Thank you @Ralph for posting about the other 2 workers.
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:32:29 AM

Hey everyone, back to the desk
by bo 5/14/2011 7:48:01 AM

@bo Hi! I am still around
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:48:39 AM

@Angie are you a late night American, or are you in Asia or Europe?
by bo 5/14/2011 7:50:02 AM

@bo I am in Australia...........only an hour ahead of you.
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:50:36 AM

Sweet. One of my research colleagues is in Perth, I go visit him now and again. I did a radio interview on ABC in Queensland yesterday.
by bo 5/14/2011 7:51:38 AM

@bo oh did you? I am in Queensland I am just a little north of Brisbane.
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:52:36 AM

@Angie yeah, with a woman named Annie Gaffney on Coast FM
by bo 5/14/2011 7:53:25 AM

It is astonishing to me that they have a contract worker in his 60s in those suits hauling material around at the Fukushima site. Amazing.
by bo 5/14/2011 7:54:35 AM

@bo lol Imust say that I dont really listen to ABC radio unless there a flood or something going on here lol.I willhave to see if I can track downthe audio of it. I am also shocked at the workers age. I really feel for the workers, it is a terrible job they have to do!
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:55:58 AM

Also amazing that the news stories of his death seem to have more traction than the news that there had been a full meltdown!
by bo 5/14/2011 7:56:05 AM

@Angie I think I will be down in Oz next year doing some field work out at Maralinga
by bo 5/14/2011 7:56:52 AM

YES! The papers here are picking it up again now. Disturbing that it takes a death to bring it back into the media! You ok here if I go off and get dinner ready? I will be back and forwards lol Oh yes that has been in our news again, the fuku issues have bought it all back up again.
by Angie 5/14/2011 7:59:36 AM

@Angie absolutely. Have a good dinner. See you later.
by bo 5/14/2011 8:00:43 AM

@bo thanks I will see you soon!
by Angie 5/14/2011 8:01:01 AM

good morning going to find coffeeeeeeeeeeeeee
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 8:03:34 AM

Good morning @elainekirk. Yes, coffee good!
by bo 5/14/2011 8:04:15 AM

@elainekirk Morning! That whisper you heard sounds very interesting!
by Angie 5/14/2011 8:21:29 AM

@angie what is the news about the worker?
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 8:27:05 AM

have there been any further quakes in the area
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 8:40:38 AM

Most recent article I can find on the death of the worker
, mostly rehashed half news:
english.aljazeera.netby bo 5/14/2011 8:45:48 AM

Surprisingly clear and calm tippycam
by bo 5/14/2011 8:48:40 AM

With this clarity, doesn't it look like the dark line between the first and second floors of #4 slants considerably downward on the right side of the building? Is this an external bracing?
by bo 5/14/2011 8:51:13 AM

@bo did you hear @marie's souffle theory ? it seems the front runner looking at that. Is the framework of #3 also showing signs of demise?
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 8:54:45 AM

@elainekirk I have and it seems to fit the visual image best. Regarding #3 could they be dismantling the top in order to try to begin to clean it up?
by bo 5/14/2011 8:56:33 AM

@bo are any of the remotes up to dismantling ? is that steam in the right hand corner of 3's frame
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 8:59:57 AM

Remotes because workers would not be able to work up there?
by bo 5/14/2011 9:00:56 AM

@elainekirk I don't see steam. We can however see the instrument on the top of the pole in the grass in the foreground.
by bo 5/14/2011 9:02:03 AM

@bo sorry interupting with a gem
www.asahi.comTokyo Electric Power Co. concealed data showing spikes in radiation levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March, one day before a hydrogen explosion injured seven workers.
The Asahi Shimbun obtained a 100-page internal TEPCO report containing minute-to-minute data on radiation levels at the plant as well as pressure and water levels inside the No. 3 reactor from March 11 to April 30.
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 9:02:37 AM

@elainekirk that was up a bit earlier. Clearly one of the hits of the day. We need to find a copy of that report!
by bo 5/14/2011 9:03:31 AM

@bo @bo shucks I must spend more time reading the history I will console myself with the though a.n.other may not have seen it :)
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 9:08:19 AM

@elainekirk it is very much the news of the day, along with the death of the poor elderly worker. So it is good to have it up here for conversation and reference. Thanks.
by bo 5/14/2011 9:09:09 AM

@bo kyodo news have a 2nd upddate on the worker
english.kyodonews.jpA worker at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant died Saturday after collapsing while carrying materials as part of crisis-fighting operations, the operator said.... He was exposed to radiation totaling 0.17 millisievert..
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 9:11:30 AM

The fact that they can have a contract worker in his 60s, which could mean late 60s, working in those suits in the heat is amazing.
by bo 5/14/2011 9:12:14 AM

@bo is it possible that the elderly having lost their homes and possibly realise inflation is now going to eat their pensions are easy game for the recruiters
by elainekirk 5/14/2011 9:13:44 AM

@elainekirk it is decidedly so. The elderly are the fastest rising prison population here. The elderly shoplifter is almost a cliche by now. Almost all homeless people you see here, which is still hardly any by American standards, are elderly.
by bo 5/14/2011 9:15:06 AM