...ummm, Freightdog....at what point do you stop describing this as 'fearmongering' and start calling it what it is: The Worlds Most Serious Nuclear Event (since Chernobyl)..? This mornings headline in the UK Telegraph:
Japan nuclear crisis: huge increase in radiation level at crippled nuclear plant
The leap in radiation within the Fukushima Daiichi power plant was located in the turbine building of Number 2 reactor, where a reading of more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour was recorded, the highest since the plant was damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
"This figure is 10 million times higher than water usually kept in a reactor," a spokesman said, though the company later retracted the calculation but not the radiation reading. "We are examining the cause of this, but no work is being done there because of the high level of radiation.
"High levels of caesium and other substances are being detected, which usually should not be found in reactor water. There is a high possibility that fuel rods are being damaged."
I'll let you have a think as to the seriousness of 1000 Mill/sev per hour.....