Thank you so much for this! Marilyn
I'm not finding this from other sources, but I see that the plant is in a
Stage 4 emergency (on a scale where 7 is the worst).
The real problem with a report like this is that "1000 times" sounds huge.
The issue is the old one that you remember as a student or a parent: What
does a score of 20 on a test mean? If the highest possible score is 20, it's
very good; if max is 100, 20 is really poor.
"1000 times normal levels" is very, very different than "1000 times safe
levels".
Another thing: Neither post here (this one or the one in the main group)
quoted the whole report:
"1000 times normal *in the control room" of the plant*!
Again, this says something very, very different than what I suspect most
readers would interpret.
I'm not suggesting that the present problem is not serious, but it is still
not a worldwide calamity by any means.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joann Lavis" <joalis76@hotmail.com>
To: <californiadisasters_discussion@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 2:14 PM
Subject: RE: [CA_Disc.] Japan: "The Big One" yet to come?
major trouble with the nuclear reactors..
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/76948.html
To: californiadisasters_discussion@yahoogroups.com
From: kef413@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:48:21 -0800
Subject: [CA_Disc.] Japan: "The Big One" yet to come?
Preparing for the great quake
March 11th, 2011
01:53 PM ET
It's called the "Great Tokai Earthquake" - a predicted disaster southwest of
Tokyo that Japan has spent trillions of yen preparing for, based on the
inexact science of predicting earthquakes.
But Friday's 8.9-magnitude quake happened in a completely different
subduction zone - where two oceanic plates collide. So is Japan still at
risk for another great quake?
Since 1976, the quake-prone country has warned its citizens about the
possibility of an 8.0 quake off the coast of Shizuoka prefecture, located
about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Tokyo. Friday's quake was centered
offshore some 230 miles (373 km) northeast of Toyko.
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/11/preparing-for-the-great-quake/?hpt=C2
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