Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_41.html

They aborted the attempt to refill the spent fuel rod pool VIA helicopter cause radiation was too high?
Is this a joke? Radiation is only going to get worse if they don't refill it...
And supposedly the radiation was 50mSv?
Wtf? And that's too high? I thought the plant was around 400mSv and that's not health threatening?

My guess is the radiation is much higher than 50mSv ...

Dropping water from the helicopter was only an experiment. They Russians used helicopters to drop water(?)/sand(?)/lead(?) on the Chernobyl reactor, but it did not work very will. It was also extremely dangerous as they are flying in the middle of the radioactive smoke. Most (all?) of the russian helicopter pilots died. :-(