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I love the internet:
Cesium Effluent Evaporation Solubility: sti.srs.gov

8 radiation sickness signs Due to nuclear assaults on the environment and life on it, humans are increasingly susceptible to irradiation poisoning them. Little information is being broadcasted about radiation sickness and its eight main signs. People who have been radiated often, therefore, attribute their new conditions to other than the actual cause, radiation. www.examiner.com

@Peter Melzer Most people here do not "believe" in the inverse square law, or the plane or line source law. They really don't believe radiation decreases with distance from the source.

@Edano So everything inside the outer line of his arm, then almost striaght down from his hand to just below his hip then up to his other hand and back below the blue logo is blurred, possibly completely replaced. WHay?

@Edano heh

I'm old enough to have seen them. ;) Anyway, I can't think of anything that blurring could have been designed to hide except that they lied about the detector having only a 10Sv/hr range, or even about the guy being there, but that's a very small lie by TEPCO standards so it's just another one of those little mysteries that surround this.

@Edano , they tried bone marrow transplants. You need a perfect match for that to work.

OK...I found it earlier in the article... one hour duration.

My German is sketchy, but I try to read as much as I can before I translate it.

I'd run in a very large ciarccle around the 10Sv/hr...

Radioactive Water: Tea Bags To The Rescue
Scientists here in the U.S believe they’ve found a new way to remove, not just radiation, but other potentially hazardous contaminants to make sure water is safe to drink.
Dr. Joel Pawlak may have the solution: biodegradable foam. It works like a gooey sponge to pull salt, heavy metals and even radioactive materials like potassium iodide that don’t dissolve out of water.

“And we really think it’ll work for a lot of the other ions that are created from the nuclear reaction,” Joel Pawlak, Ph.D., a paper physicist at NC State University told Ivanhoe.

The foam is made from combination of hemicellulose, a by-product of the wood pulp industry, and chitosan that is typically found in crushed crustacean or crab shells. The material can be functionalized to remove contaminants.

“The material itself isn’t selective for radioactive materials, what it’s actually doing is taking out dissolved ions inside,” Dr. Pawlak said.

In a disaster, it could be as simple to use as a tea bag.

“You take a cup of water, place your tea bag into the water and it’ll remove the salt from the water, it’ll remove the heavy metal from the water, and hopefully it’ll remove that radioactivity from the water as well,” Pawlak explained.

One liter of the foam can turn a hundred liters of contaminated water into safe drinking water. It’s physics and material science that could save lives. The foam may also offer a new option for turning salt water into water that’s safe to drink. Funding for this research comes from several sources, including the U.S Department of Energy.
More: www.ivanhoe.com

@RadioGuy , as I see it, your life is in real danger once you absorbed 1Sv, no matter in what time.

I discovered an interesting political aspect to the hardened venting of Unit 1. Tepco carried out the action on orders of the Prime Minister himself who is an engineer by education. In the US, I doubt that any president since the inception of nuclear power was qualified to give such order.

Just reposting this www.tepco.co.jp which is the site radiation survey map from April 23rd.

IMHO there seem to be 3 possibilities:
1. The worker had the meter set to the wrong scale and when he saw the reading didn't stop to find out (but Tepco seems certain about the measurements)
2. The rad surveys in April were totally incompetent
3. Fresh radiation is still being released