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Japan
2011-11-20 Where
are the Superheroes?, majiasblog.blogspot.com
 Yesterday
I posted a link for Fukushima Diary's translation of comments
made by the engineer of reactor #3 at Fukushima.
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/fukushima-diary-architect-of-reactor-3.html
Enenews
also ran the story and used Babblefish to translate his comments.
http://enenews.com/china-syndrome-is-inevitable-says-architect-of-fukushima-reactor-no-3-warns-of-massive-hydrovolcanic-explosion-inevitable-melted-fuel-sank-underground
A
comment made by IReallyAmARocketScientist at Enenews was instructive:
"More
precisely, I think what can be expected is a blend of hydrovolcanic
and phreatomagmatic eruption. phreatomagmatic eruptions are
characterized by violent steam explosions that lasts as long
as ground water can come into contact with magma, which, in
this case, is/are the corium(s). With the highly radioactive
steam venting from surface fissures at Fukushima, it seems that
we are already beginning the run up to such an explosion."
I
hope that the perceived lack of collaborative action on Fukushima
by the world's nuclear engineers and physicists is simply an
illusion and that as I write an international team of experts
is working on a solution.
Where
are the superheroes?
2011-11-21 Fukushima
Nuclear Chain Reaction or "Prompt Criticality" Possible?,
majiasblog.blogspot.com.
Enenews
has a 3 minute clip from Dr. Helen Caldicott's interview with
Dr. Ian Fairlie on the possibility of prompt criticality at
Fukushima.
http://enenews.com/radiation-expert-im-ruling-nuclear-bomb-type-explosion-video
Listen
to the entire interview here:
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=5153
Prompt
criticality could result in a nuclear explosion. (Read about
the different forms of criticality here:
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/nuclear-chain-reactions-and-forms-of.html
We,
the general public, don't know that this will happen at Fukushima
Tepco
may know the likelihood, but they are not sharing that information
with the people
We
do know that unit 1 has massive radiation spikes, but we don't
know if there is enough fuel pooled tightly enough to create
an unabated nuclear chain reaction
Let
us hope that will not happen.
But
what about constant on and then off again fissioning?
What
are the consequences for us if that continues unabated (and
by us I mean everyone in its pathways)?????
I
find it alarming that there is such quiet from environmental
groups. Why aren't they explaining the situation to their publics?
Is it because their scientists see no worry?
I
don't think so. If that was the case, scientists would be speaking
publicly about the levels of risk.
Why?
Is it because people are afraid to speak out? If so, why? Do
they fear reprisals?
It
is strange and rather scary.
2011-11-22 Fukushima:
“China Syndrome Is Inevitable” … “Huge
Steam Explosions”, “Massive Hydrovolcanic Explosion”
or a “Nuclear Bomb-Type Explosion” May Occur,
washingtonsblog.com
2011-11-22 ABC:
Gov’t says nearly one-tenth of Japan has been contaminated
by radiation from Fukushima by Energy News Staff
"Nearly
a tenth of Japan contaminated, ABC Australia by Mark Willacy,
22 Nov 2011:
Japan’s
Science Ministry says nearly 10 per cent of the country’s
land has been contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima
nuclear plant. [...]
The
Japanese Government says some of the radioactive material fell
with rain and snow, leaving the affected areas with accumulations
of more than 10,000 becquerels of caesium per square metre."
2011-11-23 Fukushima
worker confesses “There is nothing left that we could
do” posted by Mochizuki, fukushima-diary.com
[Editor'sNote: The reader comments have some interesting ideas
about what can be done]
2011-11-24 Radiation
in Japan: Tokyo Will Burn Miyagi's Disaster (and Radioactive)
Debris in Incineration Plants in 23 Special Wards
["Tokyo To Burn Another 100,000 Tons Radioactive Debris"
from Rense.com], ex-skf.blogspot.com. [Editor's Note: The Japanese
continue to wage a form of dirty nuclear war against themselves
and North America by reintroducing radioactive material into
the atmosphere through burning].
2011-11-25 50
locations exceeded mandatory decontamination limit in Arakawaku
[Tokyo], fukushima-diary.com
Having
measured 6.46 micro Sv/h at Shioiri elementary
school in Arakawaku Tokyo, the ward government measured all
the elementary schools, kindergarten, and nursery schools.
As
a result, 50 of 82 locations turned out to be contaminated worse
than 0.23 micro Sv/h, which is the “decontamination
limit”.
Details
are:
* 10 kindergarten
* 13 nursery school
* 16 elementary school
* 10 junior highschool
* 1 Korean school
6
of elementary schools and junior schools were contaminated worse
than 1.0 micro Sv/h.
Arakawa
ward government banned going into those areas and started decontamination,
such as high-pressure washing, changing the soil or cover the
ground with concrete.
However,
some people criticizes decontamination is useless because high-pressure
washing only scatters around radioactive particles, and the
water is contaminated itself etc..
2011-11-25 Videos
From Japan With English Subtitles, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
Brought
to us by Tokyo Brown Tabby
http://www.youtube.com/user/tokyobrowntabby
Thank
you!
2011-11-25 50
locations exceeded mandatory decontamination limit in Arakawaku
[Tokyo], fukushima-diary.com
Having
measured 6.46 micro Sv/h at Shioiri elementary
school in Arakawaku Tokyo, the ward government measured all
the elementary schools, kindergarten, and nursery schools.
As
a result, 50 of 82 locations turned out to be contaminated worse
than 0.23 micro Sv/h, which is the “decontamination
limit”.
2011-11-25 News
from Japan, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"Japan
Today Radioactive strontium found in 3 locations in Tokyo http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/radioactive-strontium-found-in-3-locations-in-tokyo
"A
citizens’ group has discovered radioactive strontium in
soil in three locations in Tokyo, peaking at 51 becquerels per
kilogram.
"The
group took measurements throughout Tokyo and Yokohama, and found
radioactive mud in several locations, Sankei Shimbun reported
Friday. In one case, a soil sample weighing one kilogram was
found to be emitting 51 becquerels."
Also,Fukushima
governor wants free medical care for young residents http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/fukushima-governor-wants-free-medical-care-for-young-residents
"Fukushima
Gov Yuhei Sato on Thursday asked the central government to provide
free medical care for anyone aged 18 or younger, who have suffered
health problems due to the nuclear crisis."
2011-11-25 Radiation
in Japan: Southern Miyagi's Disaster Debris May Be Too Radioactive
[Miyagi
Disaster Debris Too Radioactive To Burn In Tokyo? Nah - Rense.com],
ex-skf.blogspot.com.
"After
the Tokyo Metropolitan government merrily signed the agreement
with Miyagi Prefecture to accept radioactive disaster debris
and burn it in regular incinerators operated by municipal governments
all over Tokyo (see my
post yesterday), Miyagi Prefecture announces that some of
the Miyagi disaster debris may be too radioactive when burned.
So?
Mix and burn. Or just send it to Governor Ishihara. He won't
care, even if the residents may. He will be happy to receive
the highly radioactive ashes from Miyagi and bury them anyway
in Tokyo Bay. Mix and bury.
From
Jiji
Tsushin (11/25/2011; the link won't last):"
2011-11-25 (for this day, the day of the report) Analysis
Of Japanese
Government Radiation Spread Report, survivaljapan.wordpress.com,
29 Nov 2011
Since
the Japanese government policy remains to downplay the risk,
after censoring radiation reports in the news and in the blogosphere,
data should be taken with a grain of salt. Last week, the Japanese
government has turned its back on the company it had contracted
to monitor radiation in parks and school playgrounds around
Fukushima, after it suddenly discovered that the accuracy of
the Geiger counters it had ordered was substandard (Cf. Mainichi
Shimbun news article and comment in Geiger
Counter Case Study: Inspector Alert in SurvivalJapan). MEXT
data for all regions but Fukushima falsely reported radiation
levels close to natural background radiation for months so that
I only trust citizens reports such as Safecast. On the Japanese
government radiation map below, it is a safe bet to assign to
each concentration the level range above each reported, i.e.
for 0-10.000 Becquerel/sq.m, the real value is probably between
10.000 and 30.000 Becquerel/sq.m. As for the methodology, only
one station per prefecture was used to measure data. The Japanese
government and affiliated organizations reportedly used Geiger
counters conveniently located to show the least radiation, as
in the current case of Tokyo University, which use only their
one station with lower readings and switched off the other one
which measures higher levels of radioactivity. Japan is not
the only country to set their radioactivity monitoring stations
at their convenience, this is common practice as shown in France
by CRIIRAD with Areva (ex-COGEMA) company for instance, in the
context of nationwide contamination from closed uranium mines.
Read for instance “Decommissioning
Projects – France” on Wise-Uranium with links
or directly the English report by Head of CRIIRAD Bruno Chareyron,
“Radiological
hazards from uranium mining”, available for download
in PDF format. CRIIRAD stands for Commission de Recherche et
d’Information Indépendantes sur la RADioactivité
/ Commission for Independent Research and Information about
RADiation and Bruno Chareyron was invited in Fukushima.
If
absolute figures are probably fudged, relative concentrations
of radiation in cities are likely to be trustful (although it
says nothing about other cities in each prefecture). Hereafter
is a ranking based on the news article, with lowest concentration
rounded up to 1 Bq/sq.m for Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, as the
reported value is unrealistically small (0.378 Bq/sq.m) and
for the sake of having a non-null integer multiplier. It should
be noted that the apparent precision of figures is misleading
and I kept the 2 most significant figures for this short ranking:
Kumamoto
(Kyushu) : 1
Osaka
: 20
Tokyo
: 20,000
Yamagata
(Fukushima and Miyagi neighbor by the Sea of Japan) : 20,000
Ibaraki
(northern neighbor of Tokyo by the Ocean Pacific) : 40,000
In
other words, radiation is 10 times lower in Kyushu
compared to Kansai (suspiciously, in spite of
the Genkai nuclear incident, Cf. Nuclear
Incident in Kyushu November Update on SurvivalJapan). Kansai
is itself a 1000 times less irradiated than Tokyo.
This seems about right and there is of course a gradient between
these regions. Indeed, before information black-out was enforced,
a Japanese green tea grower in Shizuoka (further south from
Mount Fuji, about 150 km / 100 miles south-west of Tokyo) reported
high level of radioactivity (read for instance the New
York Post article about it). In order to get 680 Bq/kg
in dried tea leaves, as was reported there in Honyama area,
the soil needs to be pretty contaminated and hence also the
air, from which radioactive fall-out precipitates (therefore,
other food products from this wider area are contaminated as
well)...
2011-11-26 Asahi:
Gov’t survey shows Fukushima fallout has spread everywhere
in Japan — Now confirmed 1,700
km away at Okinawa, by ENENEWS Staff
"Cesium
from Fukushima plant fell all over Japan, AJW by The Asahi
Shimbun, Nov. 26, 2011:
Radioactive
substances from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
have now been confirmed in all prefectures, including Uruma,
Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,700 kilometers from the plant, according
to the science ministry.
The
ministry said it concluded the radioactive substances came from
the stricken nuclear plant because, in all cases, they contained
cesium-134, which has short half-life of two years. [...]
But
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s
survey results released on Nov. 25 showed that fallout from
the Fukushima plant has spread across Japan. [...]
The
ministry also said Nov. 25 that it will conduct aerial measurements
of cesium accumulations in soil in regions outside the 22 prefectures
starting next year. That is because small amounts of cesium
have been detected in dust deposits in Hokkaido and western
Japan.
Survey
details:
*
Included the cumulative densities of radioactive substances
in dust that fell into receptacles from March – June.
*
No figures were available for Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures,
where
the measurement equipment is said to have been not operating.
*
Only one measurement station was used for each of the other
45 prefectures.
More
to come…"
2011-11-26 Asahi:
"Cesium levels hit tens of billions of becquerels at river
mouth," majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"Researchers
have sounded the alarm over river water containing cesium levels
at tens of billions of becquerels a day flowing into the sea
near Fukushima Prefecture, site of the crippled nuclear power
plant."
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201111250389.html
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