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So far what I am gleaning between comments pulled from the press conference is that he was working, got really sick over a week, they took him to a hospital and he died soon after. This was early August.
by lillymunster 8/30/2011 3:22:28 AM

If anyone catches a news media source for the worker that died can you please post it here?
by lillymunster 8/30/2011 3:28:05 AM

I'm off to bed.
by lillymunster 8/30/2011 3:28:10 AM

@lillymunster, I wish we had a NukeSpeak 'collection box' into which we throw examples as we stumble upon them. I realized in the first days of this that there's a art form of NukeSpeak. Putting a smily on every bad situation, not matter how bad. G'nite!!
by Ian 8/30/2011 3:29:05 AM

by Ian 8/30/2011 4:25:55 AM

YouTube reinstated it!! Fair Use won! :-)
by Ian 8/30/2011 4:27:03 AM

@Ian Cool! Gotta love it when that happens.
by RadioGuy 8/30/2011 4:29:16 AM

@radioguy...i just stole your term (NOTSMAs) over on the organize board...sorry....its only because imitation is the greatest form of flattery!!
by wrshpr 8/30/2011 4:39:52 AM

@RadioGuy, thanks! I had faith that youtube would see it's obviously Fair Use! :)
by Ian 8/30/2011 5:13:19 AM

Congratulations, Ian. Love your work, including the art!
by M.I.A. 8/30/2011 5:13:53 AM

restarted
by Edano 8/30/2011 8:15:06 AM

@Edano g'morning
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 8:55:34 AM

@Edano, @elainekirk G'morning. I'm excited about the new plot marks I'm gonna see :)
by es 8/30/2011 8:56:31 AM

@Ian EXCELLENT !!!..I was going to ask earlier.GOOD NEWS.
I found out, that if someone claims Copyright, Youtube automatically shuts it down .....this just happened to Justing Bieber Video's LOL
by Veenie 8/30/2011 9:09:08 AM

@Edano I was justing reading Peter's last mention of safety valves and pressure (4am-ish) in which he writes - "Regardless and despite venting, pressure built up in the dry well of unit 3 until the lid blew." I will ask him for clarification but as I understand it the new theory explains that it wasn't pressure which blew the lid at #3 and caused the hydrogen to ignite - it was the corium landing on the dry well concrete which caused the explosion. The fact that the core content had been spewing out of the RV longer in Unit #3 than in Unit #1 will in itself have contributed to a bigger build up of nasty gases and thus a greater potential for a bigger explosion at #3. And #3 had MOX fuel too.
by es 8/30/2011 9:15:08 AM

Justing? oops. just
by es 8/30/2011 9:17:02 AM

@Ian great news
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 9:19:58 AM

Radiation limit to be lowered for Fukushima staff [30 August, 2011]: www3.nhk.or.jp

"Japan's health ministry will restore the ***ulative radiation exposure limit for emergency workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to the original 100 millisieverts this autumn. The current limit is 250 milisieverts.

The ministry raised the exposure limit soon after the nuclear accident in March to secure enough time for workers at the plant to bring the situation under control.

At a news conference on Tuesday, Health Minister Ritsuo Hosokawa said he wants to return the legal limit to the previous level by autumn.

The ministry says 103 workers who started at the plant just after the accident have been exposed to ***ulative radiation of more than 100 millisieverts.

But it says all staff who began work from April on have been exposed to less than 100 millisieverts.

Based on the reduced exposure, the ministry has concluded that there is no longer a need to maintain the higher provisional radiation limit."
by es 8/30/2011 9:24:50 AM

@es
there could be more to that story than it seems
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 9:32:11 AM

Thanks so much guys!! And for giving me moral support! Annoying as it was, this is a good sign for free speech on youtube. Youtube only followed the law. And I know cases where youtube rejects DMCA counter-notifications outright, refusing to even send them to the claimant who filed the DMCA because the flagged videos were obvious copyright violations. So youtube passes a judgement in just sending a counter-notification to the flagging party. And if or however Fukushima Central Television responded to my counter-notification, youtube judged my video not a copyright violation!
by Ian 8/30/2011 9:35:14 AM

There is news coming on twitter about one of the workers anybody seen anything ?
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 9:40:04 AM

@elainekirk I've only these so far:
www3.nhk.or.jp
www.asahi.com
by es 8/30/2011 9:44:08 AM

@es well tepco are playing it very very wrong . A worker has died suddenly of acute leukaemia and tepco are saying he only had .5msv external 0msv internal exposure but it seems this worker was there in the early days without a dosimeter , I wonder if the truth will be told or if they are going to sit there while panic spreads amongst the people who think if it is low exposure then any of us could be as vulnerable if our bodies react to low dose
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 9:48:21 AM

mainichi have the story translate.google.com
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 10:00:35 AM

@Ian congratulations !!!!
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:12:27 AM

@elainekirk acute leukaemia ? .... only on high rad exposure.
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:23:17 AM

as PR goes methinks we can now absolutely call Tepco's a #FAIL
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 10:24:16 AM

Nuclear plant worker dies of acute leukemia

TOKYO, Aug. 30, Kyodo

A worker in his 40s who had been engaged in recovery work at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has died of acute leukemia, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday.

Tokyo Electric said the worker's death is not linked with his work at the plant, citing results of medical examination by doctors.

The man had been exposed to 0.5 millisievert of radiation at the plant and showed no internal exposure to radiation, said the power company, known as TEPCO. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:25:44 AM

@Edano they have 2 other workers exposed so on 1 day they say oopsy we exposed workers to high then say but another worker who died was not exposed ... can they not see their credibility is non existant. why didnt they wait for the autopsy
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 10:26:16 AM

@Edano there are no autopsy results yet therefore they cannot say there was no exposure
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 10:27:24 AM

there is no data. when did he work and where ? when was the al diagnosted ? when did he die ?
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:28:52 AM

www3.nhk.or.jp

Paddy decontamination method tested

Japanese researchers have begun testing a method for removing radioactive substances from paddies in an evacuation zone near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The National Agriculture and Food Research organization is conducting the test in Iitate Village, more than 30 kilometers northwest of the troubled plant, at the request of the government.

On Tuesday, the researchers used a power shovel at a paddy to break up about 3 centimeters of surface soil that had been hardened with a solidifier. The soil was then collected using a vacuum hose.

The researchers are to check the remaining soil for radiation to determine the effectiveness of the method.

Before the test, the level of radioactivity at the paddy was 12,000 becquerels per kilogram of soil, or more than double the limit at which planting is prohibited.

The head of the researchers said they will analyze data from the test to determine whether the method can be used to help resume farming in the area.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 18:22 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 8/30/2011 10:30:05 AM

it's frustrating. they never provide sufficient information.
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:31:48 AM

@Edano it leaves too many unknowns
Is the groundwater linked to fuku?
is aireborne radiation still falling?
Will autumn / winter storms and rain deposit further radiation
Totally blummin bonkers if there is one definate that came from Chernobyl it is that after the event food was the primary source of human contamination
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 10:35:42 AM

another consideration is that piles of contaminated soil have been buried haphardly the groundwater is likely to become a source of contamination of crops
by elainekirk 8/30/2011 10:38:28 AM

acute leukaemia = acute radiation syndrome. more or less.
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:42:35 AM

Govt signals early end to power saving

Japan's mandatory power saving for heavy users will come to an end in September earlier than scheduled.

The government announced on Tuesday that it will lift the mandatory power cuts as the peak summer heat is over.

A legally mandated 15 percent cut was put in place July 1st due to expected power shortages after the March 11th disaster in eastern Japan. The curb covers factories and other heavy power users in the regions of Tohoku and Kanto including Tokyo. Electricity for these areas is supplied by Tokyo Power Electric Company and Tohoku Electric Power Company.

The cuts were originally due to last until September 22nd for areas covered by Tokyo Electric and September 9th for areas covered by Tohoku Electric.
The government now says power saving will come to an end on September 2nd in Tohoku and September 9th in Kanto.

Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda told reporters that demand-supply situation has been improving and that users particularly in the disaster-stricken Tohoku region want the mandatory cut lifted earlier.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 14:44 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:43:52 AM

let's go wasting energy again. nothing happened.
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:44:18 AM

Bachmann: Hurricane Irene was a punishment from God
Republican presidential candidate says natural disasters are a divine rebuke to high-spending politicians.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
www.newstatesman.com
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:48:07 AM

note her discovery that God is a fiscal conservative
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:49:53 AM

the tea party is america's taliban faction.
by Edano 8/30/2011 10:51:39 AM

Latest report from the cabinet - 'Press Conference by the Chief Cabinet Secretary (August 30, 2011(AM))': nettv.gov-online.go.jp
Edano resigns, along with everyone else!!
by es 8/30/2011 10:55:32 AM