Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Neutron Beam?????????????

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110324a6.html

Thursday, March 24, 2011
Neutron beam observed 13 times
Kyodo News
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

Tepco said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 km southwest of the plant's Nos. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour. This is not a dangerous level of radiation, it added.

I suggest readers completely disregard the "not dangerous level fo radiation" comment.

I'm following the discussion of this "beam" at zerohedge. Commentators there suggest the account makes little "sense" from a technical perspective but does suggest that some level of criticality--or nuclear fission--has been achieved and is not contained at the plant.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/japan-nuclear-agency-radiation-level-fukushima-reactor-no-2-its-highest-level-recorded-so-fa

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