Radiation inside the reactor 2 containment vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has reached a lethal 73 sieverts per hour and any attempt to send robots in will require them to have greater resistance than currently available, experts said Wednesday.

Exposure to 73 sieverts for a minute would cause nausea and seven minutes would cause death within a month , Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

The experts said the high radiation level is due to the shallow level of coolant water — 60 cm — in the containment vessel, which Tepco said in January was believed to be 4 meters deep. Tepco has only peeked inside the reactor 2 containment vessel. It has few clues as to the status of reactors 1 and 3, which also suffered meltdowns, because there is no access to their insides.

COMMENT:

While I HAVE known that the nukular reactor itself could melt down, I NEVER knew that the damned control rods in cooling pools could melt down if there wasn’t any water.  And Hell, with all the Military/Industrial/Technological/Police State/Surveillance technology available, why did I ASSUME that the kukular power plants would always be under some sort of internal surveillance for safety?

I guess Homer Simpson IS in charge of the nukular power plants.

Time to get rid of the nukes?