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**Mr Gormsby**

Record radiation levels at Fukushima reactor

TEPCO, the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said overnight record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor number one, further hampering clean-up operations after last year's earthquake and tsunami.
TEPCO took samples from the basement after lowering a camera and surveying instruments through a drain hole in the basement ceiling.

Radiation levels above radioactive water in the basement reached up to 10,300 millisievert an hour, a dose that will kill humans within a short time after making them sick within minutes.

The annual allowed dose for workers at the stricken site would be reached in only 20 seconds.

"Workers cannot enter the site and we must use robots for the demolition," said TEPCO.

The Fukushima operator said that radiation levels were 10 times higher than those recorded at the plant's two other crippled reactors, numbers two and three.

That was due to the poor state of the nuclear fuel in the reactor compared to that in the two others.

The meltdown at the core of three of Fukushima's six reactors occurred after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and ensuing massive tsunami shut off the power supply and cooling system.

Demolition of the three reactors as well as the plant's number four unit was expected to take 40 years and will need the use of new technologies.

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/rec...6410645398

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**Mr Gormsby**

No gloomers out there?

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 97183 06-28-2012 02:23 PM

Too depressing.

**Trollasaurus Wrecks**

look if CNN and Fox are not covering this then it must be no big deal.
Why would they lie to you? The MSM is our friend.

chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 52123 06-28-2012 02:32 PM

Dont worry its in a state of cold shutdown. And it doesn't exist.
It faded out of existence months and months ago. you no longer have to think about it.

~~I┴∀NIW∩˥˥Iʞ~~

No big deal