It’s 5:30 P.M. here, time for any comments I’ve missed. I might respond with a post, though, if it’s something of interest to others.
Just wanted to thank you all of you for coming. The radiological posts will continue, and on slower news days (not today!) I’ll fold in HP history, background, anecdotes, etc. Hopefully entertaining. Even, on less grim days, funny.
You’ll be ready to “swing a meter” before you know it! I’ll start with the most basic emergency response I absorbed from all that emergence training and experience:
When in doubt, run upwind.
From http://tickerforum.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2464119
The agency said among the three, the situation is the severest at the No. 4 reactor because all the fuel rods are stored in the pool due to the change of the reactor’s shroud. At the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors, up to one-third of the rods are being kept in the pools. The more fuel rods are kept in a pool, the more radioactive substances could be emitted.
Thanks! I’ve been so busy addressing stuff from earlier today I haven’t kept up with later events.