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    Why Is My Sushi Glowing?

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 08/28/2013 - 11:53am |

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    Something's really fishy . . .

     

     

     

     
     
    Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water from a tank at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a "serious incident" on an international scale, and it castigated the plant operator for failing to catch the problem earlier.
     
    The Nuclear Regulation Authority's latest criticism of Tokyo Electric Power Co. came a day after the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant acknowledged that the 272-tonne (300-ton, 300,000-litre, 80,000-gallon) leak probably began nearly a month and a half before it was discovered Aug. 19.
     
    In a meeting with agency officials and experts Tuesday night, TEPCO said radioactivity near the leaky tank and exposure levels among patrolling staff started to increase in early July. There is no sign that anyone tried to find the source of that radioactivity before the leak was discovered. (more)
     
    It takes whole lot of tanks to capture all that cooling water and keep it from leeching to the sea...
     
     
     
     
    ~OGD~
     
     

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    upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water from a tank at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a "serious incident"

     

    Now it's first serious???

     


    by jollyroger (not verified) on Wed, 08/28/2013 - 4:57pm

    Well I ran across a link that admonishes me not to wash my chicken!

    Well, what the hell good is it to wash your sushi; especially when it glows in the dark.

    A long time ago a fellow wrote about THE RAW AND THE COOKED.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_and_the_Cooked

    Just get that inner chicken to 160 degrees F and you will be safe, supposedly.

    The same theory should apply to fish.

    But I do not think that microwaving or cooking fish or chicken or pork or anything else that glows in the dark...

    WILL BE OF ANY BENEFIT WHATSOEVER.

    Oh, and we do not know where our fish come from in the first place!

    As Voltaire warned us:

    STICK TO THE DAMNED GARDEN.

    I should add :as long as your garden is nowhere near a nuclear plant.

     

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 08/28/2013 - 5:03pm

    Salmon Sushi is just as good! So far mine isn't glowing! frown


    by tmccarthy0 on Wed, 08/28/2013 - 7:15pm

    Update . . .

     
    To that story about leaks being discovered...
     
     
    The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) had originally said the radiation emitted by the leaking water was around 100 millisieverts an hour.
     
    However, the company said the equipment used to make that recording could only read measurements of up to 100 millisieverts.
     
    The new recording, using a more sensitive device, showed a level of 1,800 millisieverts an hour.
     
     
    ~OGD~

    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 1:38am