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Where they had to leave the site for an hour. and the japanese haven t although they gave a reading at the site boundary where the public could be, although thank god they re evacuated, but they are in one half hour, if you stood there, you would get as much radiation as you d get in a whole year from what we call background radiation. so it s a very high dose rate. on the site, i assume they re lethal. and that s why they had to evacuate during this very intense period. and david, you have indicated you believe that we will pick up levels of radiation here in the u.s. soon. but those would not be dangerous levels, correct? çno, no. and i want to be clear. there s gas that comes out of this reactor. some things could get lofted. i think we ll detect radiation in small amounts. we should not be worried about it at all. i was a little worried when i said that this morning, i wasn t really meant to analyze the situation. we deal in the nuclear area and ....
Be pulled out, what did that tell you? one, that the radiation doses on site has soared. that it was dangerous. and they re wearing suits. they couldn t handle it even with that. it doesn t protect you from gamma radiation. it s more powerful than x-rays. those are the kind of doses that can lead to death. i m sure what they experienced was a real concern that the workers could die if they didn t pull them out. at the site boundary, the radiation doses, this is what in theory what a member of the public could get. if a member of the public stood there for a half hour, they could get as much radiation as they would get all year from the normal radiation in the environment. here s what president obama said yesterday in an interview with a local television affiliate, wcev about the situation in japan. there is a significant health threat in japan. ....
Time. they managed to recover it. they re replating that. generating steam, putting more water in and trying to keep the plant stabilized. that takes some effort and i ll be clear. that is a real problem and they re going to have to manage that for a prolonged period of time as those as those rods need to be have heat and decay removed from them. the fact that there is i m sorry. finish your thought and i ll ask a question. go ahead. the fact that they re going to have to vent that building, they re venting through hepa filters. that releases the air particulates that get caught up so they re just venting steam and air and there is going to be a residual amount of radio activity that is going to be vented and they note that is very low on the site boundary. so therefore it gets lower and lower the further you get away. ....
The fukushima power plant located 85 miles north of okinawa. perfect time to bring in glen sjoden. what do you make of the new report just released from the iaea. first of all, don, it s really good news that that plant is secured. the fact that they did record elevated levels that were possibly attribute odd to the other plant is not out of the question because the radiation devices that they have to monitor the site boundary are extremely sensitive, so therefore it s not unheard of that they might pick up elevated levels because their threshold to do that is very, very low. so when they do this one this one is fine at okinawa, but the fukushima, that one that ....