Fukushima Nuclear Accident - Radiation Comparison

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Level 7 - Major
Chernobyl e ore [6]
Cor• explosioo
Chernobyl
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core
1 r' Time Elapsed Regional Effects [3] L.-.-..., ~
100000 >300.000 mSv/h
Chernobyl
. Radiation irculation pumps
Level 6 - sencus Poisoning K-19 Submarine
8 8deaths, 1961. 54,000mSvlh
80in
Level 4/5 - 1 High . ~ Atomic bomb [SI

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Cher'nobyl
hemmorag,ng, crater region, 30,000 mSv/h
Accident dernentia, death Loui• Slotin rnco;O,\
oa" 5km
in one day Scientific accident, 1946
Med Manhattan project
nausea, infection - Harry Daghnian F,k~hima Krasnoe
Level 3 - lyrnph nades 1000 Sciemifo< acdderll, 1945 cor peak village
~ Ch.,.rnohyl 400 Sv/h
Serious

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Low rooc - workers average
(> 1000 mSv) itching, nausea do•e 170 mSv/h
Canee, risk:
1:20 100 Radiation
Poisoning starts
1:200 \. rnarn_gate ,

Site
Level 2 - 10 Map ._Fukushima I Nuclear Accident Events [~]_
1.1 km
Marc.b 11th
2:46 pm
0#1\?3 am i.-
lncident Earthquake
8:41<1rn
Hydro\Je
1:00pm Unit 1,2,3 Unit 3 Unit 2
West Gate Unit 3 Ur11t 3 Seawater Containment Radioactive
{> 1 O rnSv) &Tsunami Manual Explosten
Gray & black cooling sea water
vessel breach
1.0 venting smokeagain cominues leaking to outside
100 km

Alititude [7]
tbaraki
prefectu'ó
• *
15km
Highjet
,01 m5v/h
0.1
1 km
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Cooling
water
discharge
D. Unit4
Storage pool
3:00am
Thirty five
3:55 [=>m
7'mtt
Graysmoke
appears
Fire put Admin Building 0.4 km
R. Hoetzlein (el 2011
Main Gate possrbly
boil,ng
fire engines º" Maingate 1.0km
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10km 206km 6:14am '~-, West gate 1.1 km work is inthe publicdomain
Level 1 - Jeis 0.01 - lntern<1tional Limit
20km Tokyo ~ Unit3&4
005 mSv/h for Nuclear workers Evacua1ion Explosion Helicopter ·OSottled water scarce Q IAEA Tracks QTokyo residents O
Radiaton test 10.000,000
Anomaly =
l 00 mSv/year .01 n'i5v/h zon" water & 2•> gov't limit Radiation leaks hoard water times above normal (rermcred)
(> local 6.7km Geological radlatlon 181 5:45 ern fire hcses
O Tokyo Sx >background O Japan encourages () Utility retests reactor water
background) Himalaya
Mountains
.0001 mSv/h
0.001
- Ramsar, lran. YlangJlng, Chlna.Bra}II

- Most cities
- Smoking
1 "-'''-'""Y
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4:36 pm
L 3:36 pm
Unit l
Hydrogen
Unit4
Unit4
6:00am 1 2nd Fire Q Radiation foars .
spark pan1,:.evacua11ons
126x >iodine limit
Q Elevated levels outside JO-Km voluntary evec.
1000 mSvlpersn, 30km away nea, plant
100,000x >eoolant norm
330x >ave pe, person/yr
Explos1on
13x >no,m, 6 km away Japan mulls new steps .. O
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Level 0-
2.0km
High cities
1 ! - - Household Radon
Three Mile lsland
March 10th background· i
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Emergency
1 declared
Explosion
near fuel pool (3
A radioactive hazard zone? Workes touch rad,i;J.tion
"50 mSv higher than Chernobyl residen!" 700,000x >normQ 28x >norm, 10 km away 3,355x >legal water limit

(Denver) .0001 - Natural Background lo bkm liokm 100km 1000 ~ évents Unit 2 Unit4E,ents News Reporting OcNN 0Fox ÜREUTERS
Normal .00001 mSv/h
!"l 0.5 to 5 mSv/year Radiation falls with the square of distance Notes: lll Nuclear ewnt lev<,ls are triggered by particular ev<,n!s regardle« oí radiatiori dosea!}e, Partially melted rod< 3l Fuku<hima warrants Lev,;I 5.
Radiation Level, 1, 2 and 3 have specific radiation dosage limit>. Sourcec lnternation Atomic Energy Agency IIAEA), Nuclear lncident Event Sea le (INES)
from source. Both axes are logarithmic. [.l) Chernobyl S.Ource: B. Medvedev,JPRS Report on Soviet Un io n Economic Affairs Chernobyl Notebook, 1 989,
lncreases [3) Time data h,irvested by Marlan S!elnba<h, "A Crowdsourced Japan Radla!lon Sp<eadsheet;Mor 30th Da!a source;Japan Mlnls!ry of édu<atlon,Cul!Ure, Sports, Sclence and Te<hno1ogy (MEXTJ
with altitude 14) Ful.u<hlma ev<,nts from nume<ous ;ources, Usted on wikipedia page for Ful.ushima I Nuclear A<cident. Data sour<e: TEPCO, Monitoring data, Mar. 11 th-31)[h
15) Atomic bomb radiation inside crater region (< lO km). fallout is more deadly in long-term because radiation is no longer localized
[6) S.Ource: Health Effem ol the Chernob,-1 Accident. European Committee on Radiation Rist <006.Busby & Yablokov,
[7) S.Ource: NOA/1, Radla!lon Ha,ard at A;r«art Alt;tude.O,~ 2007.(htlpHwww.swpcnoaa.gov/lnfolRadHaz,html)
IS) Certain lo<ation, have very hi9h natural radiation. Source: Very High Bockgrc,md ~adiation Areas of Rarmar, lran, Preliminary ~iological Studie~ 2002, M.Ghia»i-nejad et al.