paulsol wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
Nuclear plants have the advantage of taking up a far, far smaller footprint per Mw generated than wind or solar farms.
Until the fecking things go bang that is.....
That diagram includes that massive US zone which was proven to be incorrect, and it's also 2 months old. Right now the exclusion zone is the larger red circle at 20km.
As of June 1, 2011. That city in the west side of blue zone, ********* City, at the highest levels has 3x (1.37 μSv) the average hourly dosage (0.416 μSv) in the east part of the city at Oyamacho (御山町). At the lowest levels is lower (0.40) than the average in the southwest part of the city at Arai (è’井). Tokyo is currently at pre-disaster levels. (Information is located [link=http://bousai.city.**********************************************************************************************************
The situation right now is under caution as the Typhoon season will arrive soon. Current plans are to erect covers around the plant in mid-June. However, Typhoons rarely hit the disaster-affected region of Tohoku and those that do, do little damage.
Current predictions put it at least 2 years before residents can start to return to areas within the exclusion zone.