Nucleotidings

IAEA developing natural hazard alerting system world-nuclear-news.org

     TEPCO is the giant Japanese utility company that brought the world the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. They had a bad record of managing nuclear power well before 2011. They had been chastised in court by the Japanese government for incompetence. Three years before the Fukushima disaster, they had generated an internal report that warned of the possibilities that did come to pass.

Ambient office = 66 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 104 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 105 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 80 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 89 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 92 nanosieverts per hour