Fukushima Radiation Release Exceeds (US) NRC Design-Basis Limit (Union of Concerned Scientists)

[jpak]

http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/3870899344/fukushima-radiation-release-exceeds-nrc-design-basis

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The dose rate for such a design-basis accident would be 125 mSv per hour.

In comparison, the dose rate near reactor Unit 3 at Fukushima Dai-Ichi has reportedly reached 400 mSv per hour. The Fukushima accident is therefore now a beyond-design-basis accident, at least in NRC terms.

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read entire blurb for insight into dose rates at Fukushima

[riverwalker]

1. if GE designed it, are they liable?

or will they claim the earthquake did the damage.

[jpak]

2. Who would unrec this?

Oh - wait...

[riverwalker]

3. CEO Of GE Saw Compensation Jump To $15.2 Million

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134549481

CEO Of GE Saw Compensation Jump To $15.2 Million

by The Associated Press

FAIRFIELD, Conn. March 14, 2011, 09:09 pm ET

General Electric Co. Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt's 2010 compensation more than doubled to $15.2 million as the company benefited from a recovering economy.

[Wilms]

4. That was an impressive headline.

Saw a GE press release about Japan. :puke:

[flamingdem]

5. The just reported 500 at the presser nt