Kyodo News agency and several other Japanese outlets are reporting that crisis engineers now fear a breach in the core vessel of nuclear reactor 3 at Fukushima Daiichi, as radiation levels have skyrocketed. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano just announced that all emergency personnel has been evacuated from the plant because of this new incident and have suspended operations. The explanations come as a new cloud has been spotted rising from the plant. Operators initially said that it may be steam. [Kyodo News and AP]
mark
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 3:13 PMTEPCO have not ‘abandoned Fukushima’, as suggested by various shocker headlines. 50 brave workers remain on site.
Art
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 4:28 PMNever let facts get in the way of the media’s lust and glee for apocalyptic exaggeration of stories…
jarrard
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 4:02 PMhttp://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Possible_damage_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_2_1503111.html
information on actual radiation readings.
yes, it has reached dangerous levels in bursts but not sustained.
mark
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 4:46 PMJapan’s Health Ministry raised the legal limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker could be exposed, to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts, five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers.
Jeffery King
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 5:14 PMhttp://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/quake/8224569/Fukushima-50-evacuate-quake-hit-plant FYI