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Psyqlone•

In other news: The Japanese have forgotten everything they ever knew about robotics.

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etherghost•

Radiation messes with electronics too. Robots may be able withstand levels that human workers cannot, but right now nothing can get close to the reactors or even the reactor housings, where full sieverts/hour are being read.

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repoman•

Pffft... people get more than that from bananas, amirite? I think we need a new xkcd comic strip to remind us how this is all much ado about nothing.

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johnmasterof[茨城県]•

GTFO

EDIT: Why I want you to get the fuck out of here.

EDIT 2: Went the simple course, jackass.

EDIT 3: How I feel

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V2Blast[アメリカ]•

You know, minus the edit, that was a pretty good post.

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repoman•

Dude, I was being facetious.

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[deleted]•

On the reactor site it is a lot of bananas, their chance of getting cancer will rise by 1% if they stay within the 250 msv limit.

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tempurababy[北海道]•

How about prisoners? Grant them a pardon and medical benefits in exchange for their "courage"?

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etherghost•

The genie's out folks, it's "over". Three, possibly four reactors are in meltdown/melt-through and whatever they do they won't be able to stop further leakage for the foreseeable future.

Just a sample of the current situation:

  • 40 km away from Fukushima Daiichi in Iitate, there where soil concentrations of Cs-137 at levels up to 3.7 megabecquerels (MBq/sq. m.)

  • For comparison's sake: Soviets set compulsory relocation level at 1.48 MBq/sq. m. after Chernobyl

  • Japan bans radioactive green tea from area 40 miles SOUTHWEST of Tokyo

  • IAEA today admitted there is no such thing as ‘safe’ levels of radiation” — Allowable radiation standard based on ‘benefit’, not safety

  • Far higher than previous IAEA reports of values of Cs-137 deposition

  • “It was even worse than the worst imagination of the media” — Radiation now “leaking through cracks in the containment and melted holes” after total meltdown (CNN VIDEO) (2381)

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/05/31/exp.arena.japan.nuclear.melt.cnn

In conclusion and just like in so many other examples in the real world, "heroics" cannot compensate for the very poor choices made out earlier, in this case due to arrogance as well as the privileges given to corrupt, idiot higher-ups out of a misplaced sense of traditional deference.

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