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Uh... the quake in Japan was originally reported as 8.9, then upgraded the next day to 9.0.tigris said:Chernobyl Schnerbobryl. The quake is only 5/7 on the scale; Chernobyl was a 7.
nando said:ShadowSoldier said:Yeah right, after all of this over (assuming they succeed which I pray they do), they shouldn't have to work or pay taxes for life.
lucky for them they don't live in the usa where they wouldn't even get health benefits like the 9/11 respondents.
SourceQUOTE said:'Clearly in a catastrophe'
"It is very clear that we are at a level 6," ASN President Andre-Claude Lacoste told a news conference in Paris. "We are clearly in a catastrophe."
"Right now it's worse than Three Mile Island" but it's nowhere near the levels of radioactivity released during Chernobyl, added Donald Olander, a professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at University of California at Berkeley.
At Three Mile Island, the radiation leak was held inside the containment shell — thick concrete armor around the reactor. The Chernobyl reactor had no shell and was also operational when the disaster struck. The Japanese reactors automatically shut down when the quake hit.
The IAEA said about 150 people in Japan had received monitoring for radiation levels and that measures to "decontaminate" 23 of them had been taken.
Clearing up nuclear questions
Though Japanese officials urged calm, Tuesday's developments fueled a growing panic amid widespread uncertainty over what would happen next.
In the worst-case scenario, one or more reactor cores would completely melt down, a disaster that would spew large amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere.
QUOTE said:Fukushima nuke plant situation 'worsened considerably': think tank
WASHINGTON, March 15, Kyodo
The situation at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in northeastern Japan ''has worsened considerably,'' the Institute for Science and International Security said in a statement released Tuesday.
Referring to fresh explosions that occurred earlier in the day at the site and problems in a pool storing spent nuclear fuel rods, the Washington-based think tank said, ''This accident can no longer be viewed as a level 4 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Events scale that ranks events from 1 to 7.''
Noting that a level 4 incident involves ''only local radiological consequences,'' it said the ongoing crisis is ''now closer to a level 6, and it may unfortunately reach a level 7'' -- a worst case scenario with extensive health and environmental consequences.
''The international community should increase assistance to Japan to both contain the emergency at the reactors and to address the wider contamination. We need to find a solution together,'' it said.
==Kyodo
Hop2089 said:Lam Ching-wan, a chemical pathologist at the University of Hong Kong, said...
"Very acute radiation, like that which happened in Chernobyl and to the Japanese workers at the nuclear power station, is unlikely for the population," he said.
"But you're nowhere near a Chernobyl ... Chernobyl there was no impediment to release, it just blew everything out into the atmosphere," he said. "You've still got a big chunk of the containment there holding most of it in."
Source
The nuclear crisis in Japan is officially worse than Chernobyl,
Mantis41 said:Unfortunately it is not scaremongering at all...
Mantis41 said:If anyone is interested in the effects of the Chernobyl accident, this was quite an informative read.
http://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/index.htm#2