Recent content by Pheesh

To add to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

Well it's now basically official, I guess they just felt like skipping 6! http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_05.html

what other scenarios could explain 18sv/hr in the secondary containment besides the core melting through the floor of the primary? Does this imply the core has gone critical, or not necessarily so?

you tube version of video dated 3-27-2011 of another flyover of the reactor. Edit: just realized this was posted earlier but the youtube 480p looks higher quality than the earlier posted clip

At the bottom of this article from today.. http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80849.html "The government said, meanwhile, it detected 2.54 million becquerels of iodine and 2.65 million becquerels of cesium, another radioactive substance, from weed leaves in the village of Iitate in...