TEPCO concealed radiation data before explosion at No. 3 reactor – Workers got year’s dose in hours

you couldn't trust TEPCO to predict the outcome of a flare gun fight in a gun powder factory.

That there was what he calls a "prompt criticality" explosive event rather than just a simple hydrogen explosion?

Numbers that are unreported are not "hidden" - especially when they're consistent with other reported figures.

People keep making the same mistake over and over and over. Part of it is Japan's fault for reporting radiation levels in terms of absorbed dose. That just confuses the matter unnecessarily. If, for instance, there were radioiodine I the area that was reported as 300mSv/hour, that would be the dose an unprotected man would receive if he stayed there for an hour... But the workers were NOT unprotected. Workers with the appropriate gear on would get very little dose.

Tepco may or may not have reported the levels seen in this piece, but they did report how many people have received a 300mSv dose.

None so far.

While respirators prevent iodine uptake reducing CEDE dose, they do squat to for the gamma component from Iodine-131. Most survey meters can read both, if properly configured.

The gamma fraction from Iodine-131 is about 10% of the total, so if the dose of 300 mSv/hr is all from Iodine (which is probably not the case here) the the gamma fraction is 30 mSv/Hr, or about 3 R/hr.

The "article" claims that workers received a year's dose in hours... yet nobody received that dose (in "hours" or days).

And workers that have to enter such areas were provided with more approporiate (Demron, etc) gear pretty quickly that can reduce gamma doses as well.

No, Baggins, the correct answer is that we don't know how many workers received that dose. The article implies that the workers were exposed to that level of information, but information concerning the number of workers who absorbed said amount has not been provided for. An absence of data does not equal a "no"-it simply means that information is not there. The article does not in any way unequivocally state that no workers absorbed that does of radiation-so why would you conclude that?

Once again, you need to be reminded to stop making assumptions based on information that does not support them. As a physicist you should know better.

I've seen nothing in any of his posts suggesting he's a physicist.

And he stated he majored in physics at university and worked on nuclear submarines. In the absence of any way to verify this I take it at face value.

They have, in fact, reported on the doses that workers have received. It isn't an "absence of data".

Please prove the negative
And pls show tour work in crayon for full marks

The plant workers who are tasked with going close to the reactors are wearing equipment that measures their exposure and those with significant exposure have been given tests that also measure their internal dose. The number that exceeded the 100 mSv threshold has been reported multiple times as have the couple that came closest to the (new) 250 mSv level. The two that did were the ones who worked for hours in highly radioactive water... not workers who approached a door.

Frankly... where's your insistence on them documenting anything? They CLAIM that workers received a given dose. Where was that ever reported?

so stop it

yup

Don't be so harsh. He's got a vivid imagination of what has happened, what is happening and what will happen there.
If he stops with his "visions", terrible mixed metaphors and hilarious math, what's going to cause coffee to shoot out of my nose? Even his attempts at insults make me giggle.

Gunny is a fraud just like all those UFO JFK ghost zombie nutters don't you remember when bags proved that with his +12 industry of nuke singing sword