[Josy]

A new leak has been found outside the reactor buildings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12881015

[Pyramid*]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ttle-lost.html

Contract Workers being paid £760 per day to work at plant.......and understandably, some are blatantly refusing.

No one is ever going to convince me that there aren't going to be ramifications in the future - it might take years for the full effect of the amount of radiation leakage to show, but I am convinced that all is 'not as well' as TEPCO are making out.

Let's see a generation down the line - birth defects, higher rates of cancer within adults etc....... I'm absolutely convinced this is worse than officials are letting on.

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ttle-lost.html

Contract Workers being paid £760 per day to work at plant.......and understandably, some are blatantly refusing.

No one is ever going to convince me that there aren't going to be ramifications in the future - it might take years for the full effect of the amount of radiation leakage to show, but I am convinced that all is 'not as well' as TEPCO are making out.

Let's see a generation down the line - birth defects, higher rates of cancer within adults etc....... I'm absolutely convinced this is worse than officials are letting on.

I agree Pyramid..

There has been traces of radiation from this found in Glasgow too!

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by happyland

I agree Pyramid..

There has been traces of radiation from this found in Glasgow too!

Yeah, (in Oxfordshire as well).... I read that - the only question I have is : what distinquishes radiation from 'Japan' - from radiation from other nearby nuclear plants etc...... how do they know it's from Japan?? A nuclear scientist or expert I'm not, so I couldn't quite figure that one out?

[Lee.]

Dunno really.. It was detected by air detectors so I'm assuming that there hasn't been any in the air for a long time, they were perhaps expecting some a certain amount of time after the Japan thing, then it turned up?

Does that make sense??

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by happyland

Dunno really.. It was detected by air detectors so I'm assuming that there hasn't been any in the air for a long time, they were perhaps expecting some a certain amount of time after the Japan thing, then it turned up?

Does that make sense??

Perfectly!!! clearly I wasn't putting too much thought into it !!!

[James]

Originally Posted by happyland

I agree Pyramid..

There has been traces of radiation from this found in Glasgow too!

It is very low levels that were found. Lower than naturally occurring background radiation.

Analysis
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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-12892383

[Iceman]

Just on the news channels there

[Vicky.]

Oh god

[Judas]

Again :O

[Ramsay]

fucccck

[Jordan.]

Not again

[Benjamin]

[Iceman]

the plates just wont stabalise

[Josy]

Just heard that a second one just hit is that right

[Iceman]

Not sure all people told to get to higher ground conflicting reports saying 2 metre wave, some say 1 metre, some say it wont be felt, they aren't taking any chances which is a good thing

[Iceman]

tsunami could hit in the next few minutes according to Sky News

[Josy]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_big.php

2 different ones according to the usgs website.

[Ramsay]

**** sake poor guys cant get a break

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Karl

**** sake poor guys cant get a break

I know I feel so sorry for them.

[Iceman]

No immediate affect to Nuclear plant.

[Benjamin]

It could be up to 6ft high the wave.

[Iceman]

just reading that website you linked Josy, look at the location it's been slowly building, the first one was a 5.0 and it's gradually risen.

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

It could be up to 6ft high the wave.

That's a big wave!

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Josy

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_big.php

2 different ones according to the usgs website.

Accoridng to that theyve been having quakes everyday too.

two 7.4s straight after each other cant be good :/