"Eunometic" <eunome…@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:86417cff-778f-475b-a2bf-568e711ac697@22g2000prx.googlegroups.com…
> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/fearmongers-go-into-their-own-meltdow…
<idiocy snipped, idiot’s name left>
> Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked online.
Journalists are members of the dumbest profession on this planet.
To become a journalist, you do not need any common sense, logic,
analytical abilities, critical thought process, or any knowledge of
which end of a shovel most people use.
VIENNA, March 15 (Reuters) – Japan has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog a
spent fuel storage pond was on fire at a reactor damaged by the earthquake
and radioactivity was being released "directly" into the atmosphere, the
Vienna-based agency said on Tuesday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), citing information it had
received from Japanese authorities, said dose rates of up to 400
millisievert per hour have been reported at the Fukushima power plant site.
It did not give details or comparisons on the radiation level but the yearly
background radiation from natural sources is estimated at around 3
millisieverts, a unit the IAEA uses to measure doses of radiation received
by people.
"Last night because of the [explosions] ? USS Ronald Regan was slightly
contaminated," Kirk said. "The Seventh Fleet did the right thing by calling
the aircraft carrier off and decontaminate the roughly one dozen sailors to
go through the decontamination process."
Kirk says he hopes the Seventh Fleet relocates to the Sea of Japan rather
than in the Pacific Ocean so they are upwind of potential radioactive gases
given off by the nuclear reactors.
Navy personnel have been delivering much needed supplies to tsunami and
earthquake survivors in Japan.
THE Australian share market plunged to a six-month low today, suffering its
worst one-day fall in nine months as investors feared the economic impact of
Japan’s worsening nuclear crisis.
Stock markets across the region were sharply lower.
The investor rout began after reports that another explosion and fire had
pushed radiation to harmful levels at one of Japan’s earthquake-hit nuclear
plants.
At the 1615 AEDT close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had fallen 97.7
points, or 2.11 per cent, to 4,528.7 points, while the broader All
Ordinaries index lost 100.2 points, or 2.13 per cent, to 4,609.9 points.
On the ASX 24, the March share price index futures contract was 78 points
lower at 4,531 points, with 163,536 contracts traded.
Japan’s share market fared far worse, with the Nikkei index falling more
than 12 per cent during intraday trading.
The USS Ronald Regan detected higher than normal levels of radiation as it
approached the coast of Japan on Monday. Japanese officials claim the steam
being vented from the earthquake damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
plant is necessary, in order to help prevent a total meltdown of the
reactor.
"Japanese reactor operators now have little choice but to periodically
release radioactive steam as part of an emergency cooling process for the
fuel of the stricken reactors that may continue for a year or more even
after fission has stopped," according to the New York Times.
Despite claims by the Japanese government that radiation levels around the
nuclear plant remain safe, nine Japanese people recently tested positive for
abnormally high levels of radiation in their bloodstream.





