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Japan Fukushima now at level 7 - 1986 Chernobyl


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Christ....what a shiatte-storm this is becoming. [:(]

 

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http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/...412-273173.html

 

Japan upgrades nuclear emergency level to seven

AFP

Tue, Apr 12, 2011

 

TOKYO - Japan upgraded its nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises on Tuesday, the first time the ranking has been invoked since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

 

The incident at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was sparked by last month's earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 13,000 people, with around 14,500 people still missing.

 

The regrading to a "major accident" puts Fukushima on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst ever peacetime nuclear event. The meltdown at Chernobyl in the then Soviet Union spewed a large volume of toxic radiation, poisoning large areas of land and affecting thousands of lives.

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The Jap govt appears to be withholding lots of info. Maybe It should have been at this level since day one?

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soon japan will be isolated, no one will travel there, no one will buy their products, their economy will collapse....better standby cash on hand now, when japan is down, it will be a domino effect to the rest of the world, expect another economy crisis and then coe, private housing and everything will crash. with cash, u can buy things that u wanted to buy at a "jump down" price......hor say liao.....

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now our SG economists must be calculating how this will affect our SG economy.

 

Oh wait, dont worry, we got the 2 casinos to bring in the dough for our country. [laugh][laugh]

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now our SG economists must be calculating how this will affect our SG economy.

 

Oh wait, dont worry, we got the 2 casinos to bring in the dough for our country. [laugh][laugh]

 

 

our 2 casionos depends on china, taiwan, japan, north asia tourists....the ppl there soon will be contaminated and they will be barred from entering SG.....our casinos no income liao hence they will turn to locals for income and our MIW has to give in else lose face...promote local economy and raise jobs

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our 2 casionos depends on china, taiwan, japan, north asia tourists....the ppl there soon will be contaminated and they will be barred from entering SG.....our casinos no income liao hence they will turn to locals for income and our MIW has to give in else lose face...promote local economy and raise jobs

 

they are all booking their flights, coming here as FTs, promising to buy all our properties, and our garment is opening their legs like hookers, welcoming them......

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Now now now, who was the guy here that said Japanese have high moral values? [rolleyes]

 

I like to see him on this thread.

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Wonder how much of the radiation will/already reached Singapore.

 

A couple weeks ago, traces of radiation was detected as far as Scotland and England...which is much further from Japan than s'pore.

 

Fukushim...detected in Glasgow and Oxfordshire.

 

 

29 March 2011 Last updated at 13:33 GMT

'Fukushima nuclear plant' radiation found at UK sites

 

Low levels of radioactive iodine believed to be from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have been detected in Glasgow and Oxfordshire.

 

Health protection officials said the concentration of iodine 131 detected in air samples was "minuscule" and there was "no public health risk in the UK".

 

The Fukushima plant was crippled after being hit by a tsunami in the aftermath of a huge earthquake on 11 March.

 

Radiation leaks were recorded following subsequent explosions and fires.

 

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said it had been informed that an air sampler in Glasgow, almost 6,000 miles from Japan, had recorded the presence of radioactive iodine.

 

The agency said the value reported was consistent with reports from other European countries such as Iceland and Switzerland.

 

The organisation's radioactive substances manager, Dr James Gemmill, said: "The concentration of iodine detected is extremely low and is not of concern for the public or the environment.

 

"The fact that such a low concentration of this radionuclide was detected demonstrates how effective the surveillance programme for radioactive substances is in the UK.

 

"Sepa has an ongoing comprehensive monitoring programme for radioactivity in Scotland and has increased the level of scrutiny to provide ongoing public assurance during this period."

 

In a statement, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) also confirmed that radioactive iodine had been detected in air samples in Oxfordshire.

 

It said: "As anticipated, the UK is now beginning to see the minutest traces of iodine 131 associated with events at the Fukushima nuclear facility."

 

The agency said measurements taken at a monitoring station in Oxfordshire on Monday had recorded trace levels of iodine 131 at 300 micro-becquerels per cubic metre.

 

The statement added: "This followed reports from HPA's monitoring stations in Glasgow and Oxfordshire of measurements averaged over the last nine days which found 11 micro-becquerels per cubic metre.

 

"The dose received from inhaling air with these measured levels of iodine 131 is minuscule and would be very much less than the annual background radiation dose.

 

"The detection of these trace levels reflects the sensitivity of the monitoring equipment."

 

HPA said that levels of radioactive iodine "may rise in the coming days and weeks" but these would be "significantly below any level that could cause harm to public health".

 

 

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Richard Warry

BBC News

The level of radioactive iodine-131 found in air samples in Oxfordshire poses no risk to human health.

 

The measured level - 300 micro-becquerels per cubic metre - is much less than the natural background radiation dose to which a person in the UK is likely to be exposed in normal circumstances.

 

At that level, a child's exposure in one day would be less than one 10,000th of what they would receive from naturally-occurring background radiation in a day.

 

Radioactive iodine can collect in the thyroid gland, which controls the body's rate of growth and cell division.

 

At levels many, many times higher than those detected in the UK, radioactive iodine can trigger cancer - children are most at risk.

 

Cases of thyroid cancer among the young increased following the Chernobyl disaster in the 1980s - but only among people living close to the stricken nuclear plant.

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i belive there are loads of critical information that the govt is filtering out to prevent their economy from collapsing.

from my guess i think there is already an almost full meltdown in 1 of the reactors.

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The SG weather also funny like dunno what.

 

People falling sick.

 

Maybe the efficient A-team gahmen should put together their own equipment and issue a report like other first world countries to allay the fears of her citizens.

 

 

 

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The SG weather also funny like dunno what.

 

People falling sick.

 

Maybe the efficient A-team gahmen should put together their own equipment and issue a report like other first world countries to allay the fears of her citizens.

 

ya.. nowadays standard.. morning HOT .. afternoon/evening thunderstorms. lately alot of people falling sick? due to exposure to low radiation?

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i belive there are loads of critical information that the govt is filtering out to prevent their economy from collapsing.

from my guess i think there is already an almost full meltdown in 1 of the reactors.

 

a full meltdown cannot be 'an almost full meltdown'. wat are you talking about? either full or partially. and do u know the meaning of FULL meltdown? no doubt the meltdown is quite serious.

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The SG weather also funny like dunno what.

 

People falling sick.

 

Maybe the efficient A-team gahmen should put together their own equipment and issue a report like other first world countries to allay the fears of her citizens.

 

Agreed! However, I feel it should be an independant group of scientists who come up with the report, like in Discovery/NG channels, more objective.

 

Am also down with tonsilitis for no rhyme or reason ... [:(]

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