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Disaster victim portraits help families deal with grief
RIKUZEN-TAKATA, Iwate--Portraits of victims of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake are having a soothing effect on bereaved families in this city. www.yomiuri.co.jp

@Veenie It works for me, try "save as" its a raw dump, so the first bytes is probably not the start of a frame.. plays with VLC

Unit #4 still steaming away, seems to get worse again

Disgusting. Burglars hit evacuees' homes in Fukushima Pref. www.yomiuri.co.jp

Huge Amount of Contaminated Water Found in Fukushima No. 3 Reactor Basement

Fukushima, June 10 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> said Friday there is a massive amount of radioactive water in the basement of the No. 3 reactor building in its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
During their inspection of the building Thursday, five TEPCO and four partner company officials found a pool of water whose surface was 5.8 meters above the floor of the first basement, the company said.
According to the operator of the nuclear plant, which was heavily damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the survey team monitored 51 millisieverts per hour of radiation in the air near the water pool and 96 millisieverts on the first floor's surface. The reading reached as high as 100 millisieverts on the same floor.
The team's another finding was that storage racks for water gauges and other measurement instruments were covered by soot, which is believed to have been generated by a hydrogen explosion on March 14 at the building. The radiation level nearby was high at 60 millisieverts.
TEPCO also said its test of the tainted water treatment system at the Fukushima plant was suspended on the first day because of water leaks from the installation supplied by Kurion Inc of the United States to absorb cesium and other radioactive materials. jen.jiji.com Note "5.8 meters above the floor of the first basement" how many basements?

@jt You mean to tell me, they had no clue that they had basements and or rooms ?
Does this Company have a clue at all about their own properties?...ridiculous

@deb I dont think the stuff inside ppl's homes are contaminated, and definitely not to a dangerous level, outside stuff is another thing.

@elainekirk Yes, not good.

There is a huge difference between an nuclear bomb going off and a plant blowing up in terms of contamination

radioactive particles

@WolfDK How long-lived are the isotopes produced by the type of weapon, and over what range are we talking? I wonder if range of contamination and the type of radioisotopes is something to consider when trying to compare...

@pj I dont know the answer to that one, but in a nuclear chain reaction pretty much every single radioactive isotope is present in some amount. My point was that contamination is one thing irradiation is whole different game, in which stuff gets radioactive and dangerous to handle (a coin can kill you)

@you oops, should read one of the guys (and why I can't catch those typos when I proof BEFORE hitting enter will always remain a mystery)

@WolfDK Yeah, that one just hit close to home as I have family in that area. We'd driven out that way and I got wondering about it. I also learned what rip-rap was from that wikipedia article, and darned if that term didn't come up shortly thereafter in a conversation. LOL!

@elainekirk www.yomiuri.co.jp google translate ...... High concentrations of polluted water purification equipment, water leaking more than ten .... TEPCO has 10 days in the purification system to remove radioactive material from high concentration of polluted water Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, announced that it found traces of water leakage and more than 10 locations of valves and piping connections.


　The trial is scheduled to begin 11 days after a repair as well, about 5 to 7 day trial - that required full-scale operation could be delayed 15 days to target. The nuclear power plant in contaminated water has accumulated more than 100,000 tons have already purification device does not run, is likely to spill into the sea and outer end of the month.

( 18:21 minutes, 2011 June 10, Yomiuri Shimbun)