Wednesday, August 3, 2011

[Short entry] Five sieverts detected at Fukushima Dai'ichi reactor one

The Sydney Morning Herald is carrying the story, "Japan to pay billions to victims of Fukushima".

Any questions of a "partial" vs. a "full" meltdown are resolved by the measurement of 5 sievert equivalent dose in the immediate proximity of reactor one. The Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a complete meltdown consisting of the breech of both internal and external containment.