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Japan Earthquake Update (2210 CET)
11 March 2011
Announcements, Featured

Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre
(IEC) that officials are working to restore power to the cooling systems of
the Unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  Mobile
electricity supplies have arrived at the site.

Japanese officials have also reported that pressure is increasing inside the
Unit 1 reactor's containment, and the officials have decided to vent the
containment to lower the pressure.  The controlled release will be filtered
to retain radiation within the containment.

Three reactors at the plant were operating at the time of the earthquake,
and the water level in each of the reactor vessels remains above the fuel
elements, according to Japanese authorities.

The IAEA's IEC continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities, and is in
full response mode to monitor the situation closely round the clock.

Dan ii

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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Strickert, Rick
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 17:03
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Japanese Reactors

Is there some religious oath journalists take in which they swear never to
identify units when they report any radiation exposure/dose/rate?!?

Rick Strickert
Austin, TX


________________________________________
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of WesVanPelt at verizon.net
[WesVanPelt at verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 5:34 PM
To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing
List'
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Japanese Reactors

Unit 1 is in serious trouble if you believe Kyodo News! See text below.
Control Room has radiation levels 1,000 times normal!! And radiation levels
are rising at the main gate of the plant.

Best regards,  Wes
Wesley R. Van Pelt, PhD, CIH, CHP
Wesley R. Van Pelt Associates, Inc.

-----Radioactive substances could already have leaked at the Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit northern Japan, the
operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday.

The amount of radiation reached around 1,000 times the normal level in the
control room of the No. 1 reactor of the plant, the Nuclear and Industrial
Safety Agency also said. The discovery suggests radioactive steam could
spread around the facility.

The agency also said radiation has been more than eight times the normal
level at a monitoring post near the main gate of the plant.

The authorities expanded the evacuation area for residents in the vicinity
of the plant from a 3-kilometer radius to 10 km on the orders of Prime
Minister Naoto Kan, who plans to visit the facility later Saturday.

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