Inside Fukushima Reactor 2: ‘Too hot and humid to work for more than 15 minutes’

[Barrett808]

40 degrees Celsius, humidity over 90 percent (in the previous survey by the robots). 50 millisieverts/hour radiation, and the Spent Fuel Pool is apparently very warm.

At one spot, the steam (highly radioactive) from the Spent Fuel Pool was condensing and falling like raindrops. But TEPCO says it will be easier to work in the Reactor 2 than in the Reactor 1, because the radiation is lower. 50 millisieverts/hour sure seems infinitely lower than 1,000 or 2,000 millisieverts/hour in the Reactor 1. ...

Workers entered the Reactor 2 reactor building in the morning of May 18. There were three water puddles inside the building. According to TEPCO, "there was one spot where the steam from the Spent Fuel Pool condensed inside the building and was falling like small raindrops."

TEPCO Discloses Details of #Fukushima I Reactor 2 Entry: 'Too Hot and Humid to Work for More Than 15 Minutes'

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. It's time(long past) to call the Russians for the skinny on how to get the clean up job done.

[FBaggins]

2. The russians' "skinny" killed a bunch of people

And it never was "cleaned up". It remains a danger 25 years later.

Japan need not take lessons from the Russians... except to learn from their errors.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. well they need to anyway...it will have to be re-entombed every 25/30 yrs for the next 280,000 yrs.

it's better then being paralized with ignorance and fear as they are now....and the USA becomes contaminated within a year or two or they kill the entire marine life of the Pacific.

[Fledermaus]

4. It's a train wreck in slow motion.