2 Workers Found DEAD in Fukushima Unit 4 & "Inadvertent Criticality" in Reactor Unit 1
Channel: MsMilkytheclown
Date: 03/04/2011

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LINKS TO THE SOURCE "I've just found out that the leak leaks about 2 litres per second of highly radioactive particles into the ocean. That would mean 7 tons per hour!!"  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THE FIRST LINK if nothing else!!!!
https://feww.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/fukushima-radiation-leak-not-fixed/
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mobile/?type=story&id=2014670215&st_app=ip_news_lite&st_ver=1.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zqCJRKAVeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCPFh-j_2ko
Summary of Latest Developments:

    * Contaminated water in the duct is emitting more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour (100,000  millirems per hour)* of radiation into the surrounding environment.
    * Seawater samples taken 330 m south of the plants on March 31 contained both radioactive iodine-131 at 4,385 times and cesium-137 at 527 times above the legal limits. Cesium-137 has a half life of 30 years and persists much longer than iodine (half-life = 8 days, see also list below).
    * Workers made an unsuccessful attempt to plug the crack using concrete.
    * A second attempt made earlier today to fix the crack using a mixture of a chemical polymer, sawdust and shredded newspaper also failed.
    * TEPCO is preparing for a third attempt to plug the leak, using an absorbent gel which expands to contain water and is usually included in baby diapers and litter trays for pets.
    * About  164,000 people are currently living in shelters
    * At least 70,000 people have been evacuated from a 20 km exclusion zone of Fukushima NPP.
    * Up to  140,000 people live inside the next 10 km zone, who have been urged to leave or stay indoors.
    * "The impact of the nuclear crisis is expected to go on for a long time,"  Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said earlier today.

*Note:  Single radiation dose of 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below.
Half-life of some radioactive elements

[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.]

    * Cesium-134 ~ 2  years
    * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years
    * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days
    * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years

    * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.]
    * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days
    * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years  [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.]

    * Uranium-234 ~  246,000 years
    * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8  million years
    * Uranium-238  ~ 4.468 billion years


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I've watched it 2 times in the last 2 days....