Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA

[clearvision]

The Register:

The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, badly damaged during the extremely severe earthquake and tsunami there a week ago, continues to stabilise. It is becoming more probable by the day that public health consequences will be zero and radiation health effects among workers at the site will be so minor as to be hard to measure. Nuclear experts are beginning to condemn the international hysteria which has followed the incident in increasingly blunt terms.

Seawater cooling of the three damaged reactor cores (Nos 1, 2 and 3) at the site continues. US officials and other foreign commentators continued to remain focused on a spent-fuel storage pool at the No 4 reactor (whose fuel had been removed and placed in the pool some three months prior to the quake).

Despite this, operations by Japanese powerplant technicians, military personnel and emergency services at the site focused instead on cooling the spent-fuel pool at the No 3 building, and on restoring grid electrical power at the plant. Japanese officials continued to contend that water remained in the No 4 pool and the situation there was less serious than that at No 3.

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Long, detailed article. Worth the read.

[Chickadee]

Agree, well worth the read. Thanks clearvision.

[pollyannaish]

I don't know where else to put this comment so I'm going to do it here and then read the articel:

 

I am ashamed that people in the US were more panicked over the tiny itsy bitsy potential for harm to themselves than they have been about the Japanese who are suffering horribly the very REAL and devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami. Have we truly become this shallow, pampered and spoiled?

[NCTexan]

After returning to the FOXNEWS Studio and receiving assurances of his safety... Shepard Smith announces that the ALERT is over and removes his HazMat suit on the air.

 

Shepard then told the FOX audience, "ALLLLLL CLEAR... Now no more over reacting!"

 

[NCTexan]

I don't know where else to put this comment so I'm going to do it here and then read the articel:

 

I am ashamed that people in the US were more panicked over the tiny itsy bitsy potential for harm to themselves than they have been about the Japanese who are suffering horribly the very REAL and devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami. Have we truly become this shallow, pampered and spoiled?

Pollyannaish!

 

I would venture a guess that half the folks who rushed to buy iodine piles are now "getting pretty" in a high intensity tanning bed somewhere across the country.

 

Go figure.