Today, TEPCO published nearly two thousand photos of the first weeks of the response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. During the early days of the accident workers were temporarily evacuated multiple times due to concerns over the skyrocketing radiation levels on site, and unstable conditions in the reactors.
These newly released photos help provide a much more vivid understanding of the truly devastating conditions onsite. They also help show the scale of the buildings in comparison with the size of the vapor releases which were visible for miles for the first few months after the explosions.
Source: TEPCO
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DExUS
February 2, 2013
Notice the effect of radiation on to the image sensor of the cameras, you can imagine the amount of radiation by counting the “bad” pixels shown on each of the photos.
These photos were taken with Panasonic dmc fx9 and fujifilm finepix a610 , those have tiny image sensors , 1cm x 0.5cm , and yet you can count several bad pixels caused by gama radiation.
frightening.
DExUS
February 2, 2013
In fact , the size is even lower, it is exactly 5.8mm x 4.3mm
DExUS
February 2, 2013
It took some time, but I had calculated the radiation amount in one of the photos.
in this particular photo : Fukushima-Daiichi-Unit-3-Water-Discharge-Operations-March-17th-2011-2012-1-Enformable.jpg
it is exactly : 9.7218μSv/h , normal radiation is 0,006 uSv/h
FC
February 2, 2013
reposting this … along with bad news about the tsunami debris reaching Alaska and BC. Really awful vid of that from NBC.