Thanks for that link freelancah.
IMO there's a lot of bullshit going on there in regard to safety-measures.
For instance: they say lead-plates were put on the floors of the helicopters to block radiation. For sufficient blocking they likely need 6 inches of lead to block a significant part of the radiation, but still not enough I suppose. I wonder if a helicopter could lift roughly its own weight of lead + water.
Secondly, the helicopters don't hover still above the reactor to avoid continuous exposure. It is RADIATION, the name itself says enough.
Thirdly, the radiation is told to 100 milliSieverts, which is 5x the annual dose allowed for professionals who work with radioactive isotopes/sources (here in The Netherlands). They state that it won't be a health-risk?
I guess they're right for short exposures, but together with their non-hovering tactics and lead-floors it will all be fine in the end of course
It's really sad that everything what could have gone wrong went wrong. IMO a perfect example of murphy's law and I think it really is out of control already.
I wonder though: if dikes/barriers here in The Netherlands break then we have pumps which are able to pump >12000 litres/minute from A to B.
All I saw on TV are nozzles at the top of the reactor which spray water. I can't believe they don't have any of these pumps somewhere in their country.
Now they're trying it with helicopters and the live feed shows how well that goes.
What annoys me as well is that in Europe anti nuclear energy groups proliferate/take advantage of this situation.
Here in The Netherlands there's a debate about building a second nuclear plant next to one we already have and last monday there was a demonstration against building a new one because of "look what can happen, look at Japan".
Yeah sure, sod off please, in Europe we barely have earthquakes, let alone earthquakes of this magnitude.
I hate it when people go over the back of other people for their own agenda.
I hope Japan sticks to nuclear energy (they have to I think). It's still most effective, cheapest, cleanest but also safest. Despite what happened in Japan, that is really extremely rare to have so much bad luck.