There were some problems with the Edano presser

Edano made a misstatement: said that there was a reading of 1000 milli sieverts at the plant this am. edit (or maybe 10,000? confusion was between milli & micro unit)

So they had another press conference from the nuclear safety commission of japan to correct.

He made a mistake -- it was micro sv not mill sv

in addition, levels went down and workers are on the way back as of 1 hour ago.

Good to know the workers are heading back.

the japanese nuclear security people came on immediately after & made corrections.

i was listening, trying to transcribe translation & trying to hear the japanese -- i believe it was tbs but not sure.

i am confident the corrections will appear shortly.

Looks like they are now ready to ask for US military assistance at the plants.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
0349: Japan says it is ready to ask the US military for help in battling the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the AFP news agency reports.

of the sheer misery of being left with nothing, freezing and hungry, having it all gone in the space of a couple of minutes.

Some things are just beyond imagining.

half an hour ago.

following that the nuclear safety commission did a follow-up presser & issued corrections.

i believe they will appear shortly.

if not i will apologize for my misinterpretation.

They were reporting 400 mSvs at the plant, now with the fire?

I doubt they would pull all workers if it wasn't true that
levels had reached something in the high milli range, given
the severity of the situation.

They are losing credibility by the minute. Are we to believe
that Edano at this point doesn't know the difference between
uSvs and mSvs?

in translation.

maybe it was 10,000 msv -- the confusion was between micro & milli.

i don't know what edano knows, but i know that he hasn't been getting enough sleep.

there is actually a "campaign" on to get him to go to bed, which was referred to in passing in the press conference --

if you don't believe me, that's fine. i don't have a link & i wouldn't believe myself either without one.

however, as people were just starting to post reports that the workers had been evacuated because of these high levels, (which actually happened three hours ago) while i had just heard via presser that they were coming back, i posted it.

He's looking really exhausted now in the feeds

Govt: radiation spike likely from No.2 reactor

Japan's nuclear safety agency says a possible radiation leak from the Number Two reactor may have caused the sharp increase in radiation levels on Wednesday at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, north of Tokyo.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told reporters on Wednesday that the level of radiation near the plant's main gate rose to 10 millisieverts per hour at 10:40 AM, but dropped to 2.7 millisieverts per hour within 30 minutes.

The agency said the radiation increase prompted workers at the plant to temporarily evacuate.

The agency said Tokyo Electric Power Company suspects that the increase was caused by the Number Two reactor. The reactor's pressure control facility, called the suppression pool, has been damaged.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_26.html


you can confirm that he initially said 1000 millisieverts by discussion on the web, e.g. here:

Headline is false (possibly mistranslation).
According to http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/latest-updates-o...:

11:13 P.M. (EST) Core Group of Workers Remain at Plant The Times’s Hiroko Tabuchi reports that a small group of workers remains at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, contrary to what an English translation of the chief cabinet secretary’s remarks had implied.

Edit: http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2 is also reporting that workers are (back) in. Also NHK is clearly reporting that the chief secretary misspoke radiation levels and used milli instead of micro.

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2330594

feel we're getting honesty --

In fact, at least in one interview I saw with a correspondent she commented on

the frustration of journalists and not feeling confident in what was being offered.

That was a few days ago --

We're hearing now that a simple new electrical line can restore COOLING to one of

the reactors? And that might not have been done earlier? This is immensely stressful

for all those on the site -- but we can be sure that like what went on with BP and

the flooding of the ocean floor with oil for 60 days that politics were still going on

behind the scene -- !!

And BP spent $75 million in one month on PR to avoid accountability.

Sad to say this, but it's an obvious side effect of capitalism --

if so, someone linked it before i left & i asked them to take notes...

i will check -- here it is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=649433&mesg_id=649433

I was wondering if there were any more scheduled?

I have watch it at the same time for the past 3 days

They are appreciated.

1mSv not so much.

Edit: I forgot the S in mSv. I need some sleep 2.