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A crane moves past the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo released Sunday by Tokyo Elecetric Power Co (TEPCO).

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misty scene. cause 3.11

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Souldn't the person on the right have his pants tucked into his boots? Surely radiation will go up his legs?

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I can only praise the workers for the courage and dedication. I'd be quaking in my boots to tell you the truth. NHK World English has a 5 year radiation forecast article and Daiichi is so in the red. Those workers should get medals of some sort.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/18_17.html

Future radiation levels forecast on electronic map

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'Slow Work' or 'Slow Workers'? Doesn't seem yo be much action.

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In that area having a suit or not doesn't make much of a difference-ionising gamma radiation goes straight though...............

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There is a big yellow tape around the thing, so I do not think it is working at all.

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A computer simulation has shown that the core meltdown of the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could almost certainly have been prevented if the injection of seawater to cool the reactor had been started four hours earlier than it was.

Hindsight is fabulous, isn't it? I can tell you who to bet on for the 2010 World Cup, too.

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TEPCO delayed the decision to pump sea water into the reactors knowing it would be the end of them.

Well of course they did. You wouldn't destroy your trillion yen worth of reactors without knowing that they couldn't be saved. And don't say you sure would, because you wouldn't.

If you knew for sure what did happen would happen then the course of action is obvious, but I don't think it was at all obvious in the afternoon of 11 March.

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The data from Fukushima Daiichi is important, so to know how to increase the level of safety at other plants.

Absolutely.

TEPCO's only concern should have been safety and if it had followed that it would have prevented the worse nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, which will also cost TEPCO trillions of yen, or more likely, the taxpayer.

This is very true, but not because they didn't inject seawater immediately. TEPCO management is dangerously criminal but not because they didn't inject seawater. It would have been ludicrous to ruin the reactors immediately without knowing if they could be saved. THAT would also have cost the taxpayer (and the shareholders, who are taxpayers!) trillions of yen.

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