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The WHO, Japan and alpha emitters
Last Wednesday the World Health Organisation (WHO) published a report that said post-Fukushima radiation levels in Japan were low (see here). I’m not going to argue about the figures in this WHO report, or the fact that WHO uses data … Continue reading
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Japan: it looks like they’re going to have to go for the Chernobyl solution
ie, cover all the stricken reactors with sand, lead and boron, and then emtomb them. For four, and possibly, six reactors this will be a massive undertaking, costing billions of dollars. Hopefully it won’t come to this. Engineers have almost … Continue reading
Japan: where the wind blows and spent fuel
If I hear another ‘expert’ on the tv news channels say that Fukushima is not as bad as Chernobyl I shall scream. For godsake there’s been multiple explosions, hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the vicinity of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, Japan, Japanese earthquake 2011, Kyshtym disaster, nuclear plant at Mayak
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Disaster in Japan: even Hollywood could not come up with something worse than this
Earlier today there was a massive explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (officially known as Fukushima I), which completely destroyed the already heavily damaged hall of reactor No.1. One of the unusual things about this was that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Fukushima I, Japan, Japanese earthquake 2011
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The Japanese earthquake and memories of Chernobyl
The disaster caused by the earthquake today off the coast of north east Japan is quite breathtaking. To give some idea of the scale of things, news agencies are now saying that two trains have been ‘reported missing’. That’s two … Continue reading