As a part of the world's continuing fixation on the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Bloomberg is reporting that there may be a crack in one of the containment vessels. Some workers have suffered severe radiation exposure.
“It’s very possible that there has been some kind of leak at the No. 3 reactor,” Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman at the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said in Tokyo today. While radioactive water at the unit most likely escaped from the reactor core, it also could have originated from spent fuel pools stored atop the reactor, he said ...While we worry about possible future deaths due to radiation, it's a good bet that real people are dying real deaths right now due to a lack of electricity. For example, in the areas without power, what are the people who require dialysis doing? I'm sure you can think of plenty of other examples of lives threatened because of prolonged power outages, particularly in an area where transportation is problematic.
Two plant workers were hospitalized yesterday with radiation burns after stepping in the water, which was found to have radiation levels 10,000 times higher than water used in reactor cooling, Nishiyama said earlier today.
Like freezing to death because it's winter, in Northern Japan-- this is the place that invented stir fry because fuel was so rare-- entire towns are gone and everything is soaking wet?
ReplyDeleteTrue, I was stationed about as far from the afflicted area as you can get without leaving the main islands. (Okinawa is bleedin' tropical)
True, I've got pictures from Christmas over there with roses blooming; frost wasn't an issue.
That said, you can get hypothermia at SEVENTY degrees if you're wet, and that northernmost island is the one that has tribes famous for being basically Siberian.
No food, little shelter, no heat and any blankets you can get are wet, and it's freezing cold....
The one difference is that radiation exposure will mostly target the young. Children are the most sensitive to low levels. So you're talking about a specific threat to their next generation.
ReplyDeleteworld is shocked with the Earthquake & tsunami in Japan. Now Japan is suffering with radiation threat. World countries are well known about the threat from the Nuclear Power Plants.Every Country should not build Nuclear power plants. They should search for other alternatives for power generation.
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