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Fukushima radiation levels '18 times higher' than thought
Radiation levels around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned.
Last week the plant's operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground.
It now says readings taken near the leaking tank on Saturday showed radiation was high enough to prove lethal within four hours of exposure.
The plant was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) had originally said the radiation emitted by the leaking water was around 100 milliseverts an hour.
However, the company said the equipment used to make that recording could only read measurements of up to 100 milliseverts.
The new recording, using a more sensitive device, showed a level of 1800 milliseverts an hour.
The new reading will have direct implications for radiation doses received by workers who spent several days trying to stop the leak last week, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.
In addition, Tepco says it has discovered a leak on another pipe emitting radiation levels of 230 milliseverts an hour.
The plant has seen a series of water leaks and power failures.
The 2011 tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, three of which melted down.
The damage from the tsunami has necessitated the constant pumping of water to cool the reactors.
This is believed to be the fourth major leak from storage tanks at Fukushima since 2011 and the worst so far in terms of volume.
After the latest leak, the Japanese nuclear energy watchdog raised the incident level from one to three on the international scale that measures the severity of atomic accidents.
Experts have said the scale of water leakage may be worse than officials have admitted.
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Action on hold it seems.
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having seen a fair few this last week....music, it definitely makes or breaks a lot of flicks for me.
hate the modern relentless but meaningless punctuated action movie soundtrack.
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The new Superman.
Thought it was a bit full actually, as was the one before. Different flavor of dull though.
Gone through Halloween movies, like them...even the rubbish ones. Donald P's overacting was funny.
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Same here.
Too hot to do anything.
Just resting.
Catching up on some movies.
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Well done JA.
Hope it turns out right for your family, DumbStick.
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Ah, Aki Aji.
Always a good sign.
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Has been know to have very dry spells.
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Is the story of Real offering 100 (GBP, $, €, yen) for Bale right?
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They reported that 'Elvis' was one name being mentioned for the baby on one of the lunchtime tv programmes.
Without any hint that it is a joke.
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I wouldn't worry.
If its like my friends house, the flooring was covered well literally minutes after it had been laid down.
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Hold on a sec, isn't the Queen a woman?
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If he's going to be King one day, they should call him Elvis.
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Japan says it is taking steps (in the other direction) to prevent contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant leaking into the sea.
The plant's operator recently admitted for the first time that radioactive water was still going into the sea.
A government spokesman said the authorities had taken immediate action and should be well clear soon.
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Did Tom stand on some boxes to get the desired effect?
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To celebrate the victory of Abenomics, no doubt.
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Looks like fun.
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Well, I have a cold this weekend.
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Dunno I was under the impression that there were a handful of sharks in Hakuba!
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Hakuba 47: 36 (-)
Hakuba Goryu: 17 (+)
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Just wanted to update this.
Anyone else going through inkjet hell.... I highly recommend splashing out on a laser printer. I'm loving this one. Beautiful printouts too.
Printer Ink
in General off-topic discussions
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I said this in the other thread but.... after putting up with crappy inkjet printers for many years, and going through way too many of them and never being happy with them, I spent a bit more and got a color laser printer.
And it's amazing. Not one problem, the printing is way better, and I still haven't had to replace the toner stuff.
Highly recommended over anything 'inkjet'.