Nuclear No-go: Geiger counter key device in Japan

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The race is on to restore electricity to Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear facility - so that workers can then get the reactor cooling systems back online. Japan's also increased the severity of the accident to a level five out of seven - meaning the consequences reach wider than the power plant's vicinity. It's now a week since the country was rocked by its worst-ever post-war disaster that's left thousands of people dead or missing. Ivor Bennett is there for RT.

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[nobodywillcare]

The woman speaking at 3:40 is not saying what is translated at all.

RT, your ethics are sometimes really questionnable.

[StefK48]

Brothers and sisters, citizens of the only known planetary bioshpere, unite,

and take back this blue-green globe from the corporate vampires and their zombie mad scientists and political goons. The global crisis is occurring in Japan, not Libya, and the UN should have authorized not the use of "all necessary force" against the latter, but of all necessary aid to help the former.

[423moore]

@nobodywillcare thanks for the info!

[nobodywillcare]

@423moore She is talking about how her garden is rather large at the beginning, then I cannot hear the remaining part due to the translation being too loud.

Maybe she is talking about the damage caused to her house due to the earthquake or tsunami.

Anyway, the conversation is about something completely different and much more specific than what is begin translated by RT.

Fake. Not journalism.

[423moore]

@nobodywillcare Just out of interest what is she saying?

[robertpenmanwc13]

pls pll stop talking shit the world didnt wnd when chernobyl blew up so its not gonna end now

[BWIENS789]

If you were to shutdown all the nuclear reactors in the world, the world would basically stop. Instead of shutting them down, replace the use of U-235 and U-238 with the use of Thorium, which is more stable and in more abundant supply. I don't support the use of Nuclear Fission to power our world, but it will most likely be our replacement for fossil fuels until Nuclear Fusion power can be used with ease.

[sbatrouney]

one child per famiky the earth cannot support 9 billion people

[VaultTec30000]

Fallout 3. This is Three Dog~~~~

[MisterT363]

Pply. Many countries will be unable to feed their populations. It will take a long time to get back on our feet. I hope others intervene with new ideas or our world will end up forever changed. Stay out of the rain people. It is most concentrated their. And with all the radiation being dumped into the sea...well that will eventually evaporate back into the atmosphere along with everything that's been dumped in there. And anything being leaked into the air will gather with that and rain holds it.

[MisterT363]

@Gatraw You hit it dead on there. The population has to go down to where we can support ourselves without such dangerous technology. But I expect that this will cause all sorts of birth defects and infertility throughout the area after this is over. This will dramatically affect our worlds population when this is expected to be over. They say this has released half the radiation of churnobyl. Animals will be unedible from radiation for human consumtion. So there will be a huge gap in our food su

[john1230]

When does the rebuilding start? Do you think Japan is suitable to live within this century. Why don't other governments take control of this? This is out of control of the Japanese.

[miranda75gr]

@gatraw what a clever way to eliminate the population.... punish us because we exist!

[gatraw]

@miranda75gr if there was cleaner more reliable source of energy I would gladly get rid of nuclear plants . But until such energy sourcecomes a along nuclear is the best we got in order to keep up with the ever growing world population to which you contribute and then cry about the means by witch we have to suply the energy at a price you can pay and without depleting all of our resources.

. The answer is simple reduce population and there will be no need for such technology

[shantigs]

take a look at charts that show the more nuclear power stations the world has made/used, the higher the levels of cancer worldwide, they run side by side. no nuclear is good, no 'man made'radiation is good. it should be banned, have we learned nothing from WWII or Chernobyl? obviously not cos we still use nuclear. fools.

[miranda75gr]

@gatraw ...maybe you're also forgetting the amount of radioactive material that has been travelling around the globe through the jet stream and falling with the rain on the vegetables and milk I'm going to give my kids...

[miranda75gr]

@gatraw Allow me to believe that a radiation - free world would be a better place to live in. As a Chernobyl victim myself - although many km away&years later- I've done my research on the matter and feel that the scientific community supports the idea that "a little radiation is good for you" only to promote stupid projects like a nuke plants for "cheap" energy and blah, blah, blah... The only kind of radiation I would like to get is -the inevitable-cosmic radiation, thank you very much.

[gatraw]

@miranda75gr I did not mean to mock you, I just wanted to point out that radiation does not come as a bad thing in its entirety. That only certain levels of radiation become harmful to us. While low to moderate levels don't effect us or use to treat the very same cancer they supposedly cause. No matter how little radiation you get 1 in 4 people will get cancer. On the other hand studies have shown small amounts of radiation over long periods of time actually helped to reduce the number of cases.

[Rsilverlok]

@gilesey3 yeah it's a little like swallowing a flashlight ... did it shine on you before you swallowed it ? how long did it shine on you ? how big was it ?, was it turned 'on' ?, how fresh were the batteries?. Exposure and ingestion two different animals so gray and sievert: tinyurl(dot)com/4nkw4h8 , not that I am an expert but someone spent the time sorting it out.

[Rsilverlok]

Also today (3-21-11) the cesium and iodine plumes are way down but the Xe-133 cloud IS MASSIVE, and while xe-133 is not particularly harmful (and can be quite the opposite) it is used as a neutron absorber, and certainly by the quantity of the release indicates somewhere in one of those piles you have molten/melted mox and control rods, tinyurl(dot)com/4s4z6uz (Xe is at teh bottom of the page)

[gilesey3]

@rsilverlok I believe the sievert measurement factors in the type of radiation, so it is possible to compare N x man vs cs-127 etc. The biggest confusion with all these figures is whether it's single dose, hourly rate, yearly rate and as you say, if you ingest it, then it's more difficult to get rid of

It if at all.

[Rsilverlok]

Interestingly the fuel rods were replaced last year with the 'MOX' ( partial Plutonium, used as a place to dispose of 'surplus' weapons grade Pu) rods.

MOX rods should be used in reactors designed for them specifically because they need more control rods due to a lower thermal conductivity (they get hot faster).

It would be interesting to find out how well the plant was modified for MOX and if they necessary additional control rods were actually in the reactors.

[HeyMarkedOne8]

Reporter says ,,fuck" at 1:19 XD