Tech | January 25, 2012 | 23 comments

“Are you sitting down”? Gamma rays seen in Fukushima footage

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Appearing as out-of-focus streaks and flashes (VIDEO)
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[...] The footage [...] the first interior view of the disabled reactor unit 2, one of three reactors that failed in March 2011. [...]

Steam and radiation affected the quality of the video, but you can see gamma rays — which are detected by the camera in a manner similar to light but not focused by the lens — in the footage looking like streaks and flashes.

TEPCO officials attempted to peer inside the damaged #2 Fukushima reactor this week but couldn’t discern the level of destruction on account of all the Gamma radiation present. [...]

You can actually see the Gamma radiation in the film as out-of-focus light streaks

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