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Anxious moments for reporters at Fukushima nuclear plant

Reporters at damaged reactor plant told to stay in the bus, SMH Martin Fackler  November 14, 2011 The most striking feature at this crippled plant was not the blasted-out reactor buildings, or makeshift tsunami walls, but the chaotic mess……

 

In a country as compulsively tidy as Japan, the fact the scene has changed so little was as telling a sign as any of the tasks workers have faced while struggling to regain control of the plant’s three badly damaged nuclear reactors…..

The dosimeters of the journalists on the bus buzzed constantly, recording levels that ticked up with each passing kilometre: 0.7 microsieverts in Naraha, at the edge of the evacuation zone; 1.5 at Tomioka, where the welcome centre for Fukushima Daiichi told Japanese visitors that nuclear power was safe. Saturday’s level was 13 times the recommended maximum annual dosage for civilians.

At the plant, journalists, outfitted in full contamination suits, were kept aboard the bus in recognition of the much higher radiation levels there….. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/reporters-at-damaged-reactor-plant-told-to-stay-in-the-bus-20111113-1ndty.html#ixzz1djZqdYBO

November 14, 2011 - Posted by | general

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