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Japan, Other East Asia,
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2012-01-29 Tepco:
Frozen water ruptures pipes at Fukushima plant — Cooling
system stops at Spent Fuel Pool No. 4, enenews.com
2012-01-29 Earthquake
Map of Japan in the 1st Month of 2012, ex-skf.blogspot.com
 (You
can't even see Japan in the first map.)
From
the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster
Prevention website,
"Hypocenter
map".
A
lot of Magnitude 4 quakes, and a good number of Magnitude 5
quakes. M5 is moving to the central Japan, right near Mt. Fuji.
Numerous small, shallow quakes in western Japan.
2012-01-29 Asahi:
Sources say about 1,000 kinds of radioactive materials released
from Fukushima reactors, enenews.com
2012-01-30 [For a study conducted in January 2012] Nausea
and headache of Fukushima children increased from 6% to 38%.
Gov “It’s stress” posted
by Mochizuki on June 7th, 2012 . Data from January 2012 study.
Related
to this article..Fukushima
students having their brain atrophied
Fukushima
university conducted “stress” research for 2743
people this January 2012. Valid responses were 2103 (77%).
The
result revealed that the increase of depression, impatience,
and concentration difficulty of elementary school students from
their last research of June / July 2011.
Especially
the ratio of frequent/occasional headache and nausea increased
from 6% to 38%...[more here]
2012-01-30 New
Zealand: 18X AIRBORNE Radiation Detection in Dunedin
by Potrblog
...It
is important to note that Fukushima is not the only possible
contamination source for these detections. The Dunedin reading
also correlates with a Coronal Mass Ejection which was impacting
the Earth. It is also certainly possible that the detection
was from a completely local/regional...
2012-01-30 Japan
Paper: Professor now reveals “a high level of radioactive
materials” detected over 1,000km from Fukushima last April,
enenews.com
2012-01-31
Fukushima hit by Magnitude 4.8 quake, enenews.com
2012-02-01 Reuters:
Major new leak at Japan’s nuclear plant — Frozen
pipe burst in Reactor No. 4 — Tepco checking other reactors
for similar problems, enenews.com
2012-02-03 Tepco:
New leak releasing enough beta rays to cause radiation sickness
— Leakage in at least 30 locations found recently,
enenews.com
Title:
More
leaks found at crippled Japan nuclear plant
Source:
AP, Author: MARI YAMAGUCHI, Date: February 3rd, 2012 at 10:20a
ET
Leaks
of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan’s
crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was
declared basically stable.
The
problem underlines the continuing challenges facing Tokyo Electric
Power Co. as it attempts to keep the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
plant under control [...]
Workers
spotted a leak Friday at a water reprocessing unit which released
enough beta rays to cause radiation sickness, TEPCO spokesman
Junichi Matsumoto said. He said no one was injured and the leak
stopped after bolts were tightened on a tank. [...]
Cold
winter weather has also caused water inside pipes to freeze
elsewhere at the plant, resulting in leaks in at least 30 locations
since late January, Matsumoto said. [...]
2012-02-03 AP:
Integrity of Reactor No. 4 building a major concern among experts
— Collapse of spent fuel pool could be even worse than
3 reactor meltdowns, enenews.com
2012-02-03 Breeder:
Two-headed salmon born out of 50 eggs — Usually around
1 in 10,000 says Kyoto professor (PHOTO), enenews.com
2012-02-04 Press
watches as gov’t dumps radioactive waste into Tokyo Bay
by enenews.com
Related
Posts
1. Fukushima
Part II? Tokyo to begin burning massive amounts of radioactive
waste from disaster area — Burns will continue for at
least 2.5 years, until March 2014 (VIDEO), September 30,
2011
2. Mainichi:
Massive radioactive waste buildup in Tokyo suburbs like Kashiwa,
Abiko, Inzai — First time center over capacity since
September, January 5, 2012
3. Mainichi:
Massive dead creature floating in Tokyo Bay — Near where
radioactive ash is dumped (PHOTO), January 10, 2012
4. Asahi:
Baby humpback whale found dead near Tokyo Bay (VIDEO),
January 5, 2012
5. Iodine-131
reported in Tokyo — 10 of 12 sewage plants test positive
in December, December 27, 2011
2012-02-04 Kyodo:
High levels of radioactive cesium detected in Yokohama south
of Tokyo — 6.85 microSv/h close to elementary school,
enenews.com
2012-02-04 Japan
Times: “There could be hot spots under the sea”
says Tokyo prof. — “No telling when contamination
levels will peak” — 1/3 of fish caught in Gunma
lake over max. cesium limit, enenews.com
Title:
Scientists
say contamination of ocean fish minimal so far
Source:
Japan Times Online, Author: IZUHO AOKI, Date: Feb. 4, 2012
...Takashi
Ishimaru, professor of ocean science at Tokyo University of
Marine Science and Technology
Contaminated
plankton and waste from fish naturally sink to the seabed and
are then eaten by miniscule benthos organisms, which bottom
fish feed on.
As
a result, radioactive materials are passed up the food chain.
“Radioactive
materials circulate at the bottom of the ocean. . . . It won’t
be reduced easily”
Researchers have yet to obtain data on how contamination from
the Fukushima No. 1 plant has spread along the sea floor, so
consumers should keep a watchful eye on bottom fish
“There
could be hot spots under the sea”
“If
hot spots exist on the ocean floor, contamination levels of
fish that inhabit such areas may spike”
Satoshi
Katayama, professor of fisheries biology and ecology at Tohoku
University
“(Contamination)
levels of freshwater fish and seabed fish such as flounder haven’t
declined”
“It’s
hard to say the contamination peak among such fish has passed”
. ..Gunma Prefecture
Meanwhile,
samples of freshwater fish caught in Fukushima and Maebashi,
Gunma Prefecture, have revealed high levels of contamination
exceeding the government limit. Tests conducted between April
19 and Jan. 10 in Gunma on 34 freshwater fish showed that 11
caught in Lake Onuma exceeded the maximum level.
Tochigi
Prefecture
In
Tochigi Prefecture, meanwhile, “ayu” (sweet fish)
caught in May in the Kinugawa River near the city of Utsunomiya
and the Nakagawa River near the town of Motegi contained radioactive
cesium above 400 becquerels per kilogram — less than the
current provisional limit but four times higher than the new
limit the government will introduce in April.
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