Tuesday, March 15, 2011

3/15 Reactor problems still in Japan


Swim 2600 (lot so of intervals - killer)
Run 1 hr TP - thinking about raising hill is working well

via: http://www.channel4.com/news/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-interactive-video-timeline
Tuesday 15 March
On Tuesday morning radiation levels rise fourfold after an explosion at the No.2 reactor. Residents within a 30km radius are warned to stay indoors amid fears of a nuclear leakage. A no-fly zone is also put in place.
Small levels of radiation are detected in Tokyo, although a city government official says the levels are "not a problem".
Radiation levels in a number of areas, including Tokyo, are up to 10 times normal, but there is no threat to human health, the city government says.
Japan tells the UN radioactivity was being released "directly" into the atmosphere, the IAEA says, while the radiation levels have fallen according to the government.
There are two holes of 8-metres square in a wall of the outer building of the No.4 reactor after a blast in the morning.
Winds are dispersing radioactive material over the Pacific Ocean, away from Japan and other Asian countries, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says.
At almost 9pm a local news agency reports that radiation levels at the No. 4 reactor have become too high to conduct normal work from its control room. Workers cannot stay long and are going in and out of the control room as well as monitoring from a different place.

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