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The Finnish government and nuclear regulator have published a comprehensive plan and an environmental impact assessment for the management of all the used fuel and radioactive waste generated in the country.
Specifically the type we are talking about is the gamma, gamma raies is what they are particularly concerned about. this is a type of breathing apparatus and we were talking about how it is probably dark inside and they are 0 using flash lights and it is trying to eliminate the am of air that has the gamma raies. >> we just got these. >> we just have these now. and this is a counter. you have seen these basically you wave it over a particular area and you can get an idea of how much radiation is in the area. they show them waving over people's bodies. i don't know how that does anything becaus...
>> mine says .004. >> we started to wear them 24 hours ago. >> that's right. this is reflective of what we are seeing in tokyo. it is 2 a times normal in terms of radiation level. that is 20 times faster than if we weren't in an area with radiation. >> when you think of, what these men and women must be going through, you know, usual ly this plant has hundreds of employees. it is down to 50. it's been down to 50 for the last several days and now they say they are rotating thu 180. -- through 180. in some cases these people are sacrificing their future health if not their immediate health. >> t...
Are not getting more information. >> yeah. 20 times normal, the level of radiation here in tokyo. that's what we heard a couple of days ago. you and i are here and we don't know what the radiation levels are here over the next several days or the days past. so that information needs to be forthcoming to people. >> it is extraordinary. you look at the japanese press conferences and listen to what they have been saying and ween have been monitoring one from the defense officials they are not giving much detail. they want to keep calm and that is understandable but by not saying what is going on ...
>> it's blowing offshore away from japan. this is a computer model that will model the atmosphere for the next five days. we'll let it stop, because it is still moving right now to monday. when it starts again, you'll notice that from right now, the wind will be blowing offshore. follow it around this giant low pressure center, possibly going over the alaska islands there, the aleutians, and then back into eastern russia. then again, possibly as it moves in. now that's a theoretical particle, almost like a balloon that won't go up and down. does radiation act like that? no. but that's how the ...