Radioactive release at Fukushima was underestimated - NY Times article

Oh noes.... TEPCO lied. I feel sooo betrayed.

Just found out?

Well, cut him a break. Canadians are not getting the truth from their agencies, either. HealthCanada stopped monitoring the radiation accurately early on in the crisis.

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absolutely everything about Fukushima was underestimated

Including the tsunami risk..

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lol

"Underestimated" is an understatement...

blow off NYT. they're a YEAR late and the news has been scooped all over the internet for months.

oh my, what a surprise.

“If this information had been available at the time, we could have used it in planning evacuations,” a spokesman for Tokyo Electric, Junichi Matsumoto, said at a news conference.

^^^Now, this is the biggest line of crap we've ever been fed regarding Fuku.

"More than 99 percent of the radiation released by the accident came in the first three weeks, the utility company added."

And they are still lying. This statement is designed to convey the impression that after the first three weeks it was all over with. When in fact there are several completely liquified reactor cores emitting massive amounts of radiation. In addition there is all the highly radioactive coolant water that has been dumped into the ocean.

gasp

backpedaling while dying-off

TEPCO first mentioned that the released Radiation was afir. 750,000 Tera-Becquerel
but some months later decreased/ Down-Sized that to 350,000 Tera-Becquerel.

Now TEPCO has again updated the radiation level to 900,000 terabecquerels!

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 05/26/2012 07:47 AM

Heads must roll....

Sorry not laughing at this thread which is very serious. I am laughing at Vlad the impaler saying heads must roll.

So now we are sure its in the millions.

I used to respect the Japanese, but not any-more! bunch of retards built a nuclear plant in a highly active seismic place. then after it get damaged they do nothing about it! the fuckyoushima is polluting the air and sea around us all...

Fuck you Japan! hopefully US man up and just bomb the shit out of you for the good of this planet!

I want to add that many Asian countries including Malaysia treat sea water to make it potable. No one buys bottles of water that are sea treated any-more here! (my friends at least who know about fuckyoushima)

they refuse to evacuate japan and entomb the plant because they are a bunch of selfish retards! sooner or later the plant will cause too much damage to the entire world just because the Japanese are a bunch of losers... fuck you Japan, US should have nuked all of you in WW2!

Millions of trillions of becquerels!

Underreported by TEPCO and the Media. Never Underestimated by people on the Phys Geeks forums or here.

So, we have 900.000 Trillion Bq.
when we have a limit of 100Bq a Kg for Food
how many Kg are this?

9 Trillion Kg.?

9.000.000.000.000.000.000 Kg. Food?

Edit

I really do not know, which Trillion are they, "Tepco", talking about,
please have a read:

The long and short scales are two of several different large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten. Many countries, including most in continental Europe, use the long scale whereas most English-speaking countries and Arabic-speaking countries use the short scale. In all such countries, the number names are translated into the local language, but retain a name similarity due to shared etymology. Some languages, particularly in East Asia and South Asia, have large number naming systems that are different from the long and short scales.[1][2]

Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term: billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a million billions (1018), and so on.[1][2]

Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000 times the previous term: billion means a thousand millions (109), trillion means a thousand billions (1012), and so on.[1][2]

For integers less than a thousand million (< 109), the two scales are identical. At and above a thousand million (&#8805; 109), the two scales diverge by using the same words for different number values. These "false friends" can be a source of misunderstanding.

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United Kingdom uniformly used the long scale,[3] while the United States of America used the short scale,[3] so that the two systems were often referred to as British and American in the English language. In 1974, the government of the UK switched to the short scale, a change that is reflected in its mass media and official usage.[4][5][6][7][8][9] Although some residual usage of the long scale continues in the UK,[10][11] the phrases British usage and American usage are no longer accurate characterisations. Usage of the two systems can be a subject of controversy. Differences in opinion as to which system should be used can evoke resentment between adherents, while national differences of any kind can acquire jingoistic overtones.[11]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 05/26/2012 08:37 AM

More like over hyped for leftist agendas

Its not how much, its the FORM its in that matters and WHERE its released.

The REASON why they stopped monitoring and reporting after the fukushima incident is that they know there is no issue, and that everything is AOK, so no need to do the extra work and monitoring, just to prove it's fine.

Isn't it wonderful how we are spending fifty million a day to surround a country that Might want to develop nuclear weapons while we sit and let the people of one of our ally nations die from massive radiation poisoning? Even better, we let the same company who can't even afford to clean up the mess that may kill the world continue to run nuclear reactors in the US. (With spent fuel pools on the fifth floor no less) Ha haha ha, what a bunch of low fucking achievers

From the article:

Although people who lived closest to the plant were evacuated, many people remain in areas with significantly higher radiation levels than normal.

Tokyo Electric said it had initially been unable to accurately judge the amount of radioactive materials released soon after the accident because radiation sensors closest to the plant were disabled in the disaster.

“If this information had been available at the time, we could have used it in planning evacuations,” a spokesman for Tokyo Electric, Junichi Matsumoto, said at a news conference.

Translation: We knew the shit was bad, but didn't want to admit it, so rather than being cautious we let the fuckers closer than they should have been stay just so it didn't make us look too bad and now it's too late cause they're all dying and poisoned.

AND the NY Slimes prints this drivel.........


"More than 99 percent of the radiation released by the accident came in the first three weeks, the utility company added."

[link to www.nytimes.com]




Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 05/26/2012 09:56 AM

ANOTHER PROOF THAT TPTB ARE PRIMING US FOR THE WORST POSSIBLE NEWS, THEIR LAPDOG IS STARTING TO BARK OUT THE TRUTH