Radiation Levels In Japan

Confused1

10th April 2011 - 12:12 AM

Purports to be live feeds of radiation levels in Japan. As these seem to come from GM counters I would have preferred counts/minute giving the natural background for the area and the 'post-Fukushima' figure .. converting counts to Seiverts adds another 'interpretation' to the story.

Before you go there .. this software crashed my Windows Vista beyond the point of recall by Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

http://japan.failedrobot.com/

Confused1

12th April 2011 - 08:23 AM

At 2011-04-12 09:00:0

QUOTE

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, Fukushima, Japan

Median reading in this area is approximately
580.000 µSv per hour ( 5080800.000 µSv per year )

7160.49383x the average public space geiger reading for Japan (0.081 µSv per hour)*
580.000% the radiation dose you would receive from a chest x-ray (100 µSv)*

Tag: Radiation dose rate at the main building
Current reading: 580.000 µSv per hour Time: 2011-04-12 09:00:0

Exposure: outdoor
Monitoring data at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: The Main Building. Original: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/monitoring/index-e.html Source data: http://oku.edu.mie-u.ac.jp/~okumura/stat/data/ Monitoring points: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/monitoring/11032801.html It's unofficial and may be stopped by any reason. Use it at your own risk. Data will belong to original site.

Adding commas for 000
Median reading in this area is approximately 580.000 µSv per hour ( 5,080,800.000 µSv per year )
Either the data or the comment (or both) are a factor of ten astray.

-C2.

Capracus

2nd November 2011 - 08:48 AM

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