Approaching her house, we passed a strangely beautiful sight: where rice fields should be, workers had planted acres of blazing yellow sunflowers, a species that can leach some of the radiation out of contaminated soil.
The syndrome appeared only in some patients who got the highest dose and did not have irrigation to flush excess radiation out of their bladders, he said, adding that the irrigation is now being used on all patients.
Despite the frequent rain in recent days, it was not entirely clear why the levels of iodine were so high, said a senior Western nuclear executive, noting that the prevailing breezes seemed to be pushing radiation out to sea.
That was to prevent a repeat of the hydrogen explosions that blew radiation out of the plant soon after cooling systems failed in the wake of the tsunami.Even before that news, Mr Sakurai was saying that he was fearful of another explosion.
When we reached the power station, we were ushered quickly inside the main control room building, noisy with the droning of air filters keeping the radiation out.
This paper addresses this 'aft fan' noise source, in particular the prediction of the propagation of fan noise through the bypass exhaust nozzle/jet exhaust flow and radiation out to the far-field observer.
