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Japan
2012-03-18 Fukushima
Farmers Face Decades of Tainted Crops as Fears Linger
by Aya Takada and Yasumasa Song, Bloomberg (h/t
enenews.com)
 Farmers
in Japan’s Fukushima face years of additional losses as
consumers continue to doubt the safety of produce from the region
devastated a year ago by the tsunami and nuclear fallout, which
may taint crops for decades.
Almost
100,000 farmers lost about 58 billion yen ($694 million) by
March 1, or 25 percent of production, according to JA, the country’s
biggest agricultural group. Imports of farm products jumped
16 percent to 5.58 trillion yen in 2011, according to the agriculture
ministry.
Inadequate
testing by the government of rice, milk and fish from the region
has prompted consumers to leave them on supermarket shelves
and instead select produce from other regions or from overseas.
Checks conducted nationwide so far are only 1 percent of what
Belarus checked in the past year, a quarter century after the
Chernobyl disaster, according to Nobutaka Ishida, a researcher
at Norinchukin Research Institute...
2012-03-18 Unbelievable!,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
People
from Fukushima 'no-return zones' to be paid 6 million yen
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201203170032
[excerpted]
"Former inhabitants of “no-return zones” around
the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant should be paid lump
sums of 6 million yen ($72,000) each, the government’s
panel on nuclear compensation has recommended..."
Majia
Here: People from the "no residence zones" with annual
radiation (from external exposure) doses of 20-50 millisieverts
are each being offered 2.4 million yen, for a 2 year evacuation!
"People
from the third most seriously affected category—the "zones
being prepared for the lifting of the evacuation order,"
with annual doses of 20 millisieverts or less—will receive
100,000 yen per month per head."
Majia
Here: Unbelievable. Life, health, and human well-being are obviously
quite cheap in this calculi of value.
How
are evacuated people expected to afford new places to live?
How are they going to support themselves?
Americans,
Canadians and others better pay close attention because they
too will suffer corporate externalities when a disaster impacts
them
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/limiting-liability-for-oil-and-nuclear.html
2012-03-18 Cesium
found in plankton 600 km away, yomiuri.co.jp (h/t
enenews.com) [Editor's Note: The Japanese government limit
of 500 becquerels per kilogram stated below is absurdly high,
to the extent that Chernobyl studies have demonstrated heart
damage in children in under 20 becquerels per kilogram of body
weight, and over a period of several months the human body begins
to have the same average contamination level as the food and
water one drinks].
The
Yomiuri Shimbun
Radioactive
cesium believed to have been released during the crisis at the
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been found in plankton
about 600 kilometers east of the facility, according to a Japan-U.S.
joint research team.
The
amount of cesium detected in the plankton was far below the
government's provisional limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram
for marine products, according to the team led by Jun Nishikawa,
research associate at the University of Tokyo's Atmosphere and
Ocean Research Institute...
...
Cesium-137 was detected in all of the collected plankton, which
in a dry state was found to contain 0.3 to 56.4 becquerels per
kilogram. The farther away the plankton was collected, the less
radiation it contained, according to the team.
Results
of a similar survey conducted by the team before the crisis
showed that plankton contained between 0.1 and 0.4 becquerels
of cesium-137 per kilogram.
In
the latest survey, the team also found cesium-134--which has
a two-year half-life--in plankton at the same levels as cesium-137,
whose half-life is three decades.
2012-03-18 Anonymous
Source: Community of 6,000 people were assumed to have evacuated
from high radiation area… They had not — Eventually
happened 3 months after meltdowns — Gov’t doctor
came and said ok to eat local food — “Iitate, I
think, is finished”, by ENENews.com
2012-03-18 Yomiuri:
Cesium-134 detected in plankton 600km from Fukushima just 3
months after meltdowns — Scientists say necessary to look
at bioaccumulation, by ENENews.com
2012-03-18 Fukushima
is adversely affecting neighboring countries says Nobel Prize-winning
author — “What is the most important ethic for humans
to act is not to destroy conditions that are necessary for the
next generation to live”, by ENENews.com
2012-03-18 Japan
Times article refers to possibility of fuel melting through
containment vessels — Also known as ‘China Syndrome’
— Architect wants to build shrines over Fukushima units
to “pacify a malevolent god”, by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 “Highest
Level Yet”: Soaring cesium level in Iitate soil, survey
finds — So radioactive it would have to be buried in ferroconcrete
partitions -Kyodo, by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 Alpha
radiation detected on school street in Minamisoma (VIDEO)
alphablock, by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 Reports:
Tokyo Vice Governor suggests Fukushima draft? “We all
Japanese must face it” — Sale of foreign Geiger
counters banned?, by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 Radiation
checks of food in Japan are only 1 percent of what Belarus checked
in past year -Bloomberg, by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 Press
Conference Part II: Faces scrambled, large portions of audio
censored — Local official says there are a lot of highly
radioactive substances throughout this city… “Safety
measures must be conducted immediately” (VIDEO),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 Local
official detects 130 microSv/hr from black substance on roadside
— Japan TV starting to cover mystery? (VIDEOS),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 Press
Conference: We like to tell some serious news today —
Seems that radioactive substances are “combining together”
— “We are seriously wondering how much radiation
has been spread” (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-19 Fighting
Back in Japan, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Osaka
aims to end Kansai Electric's nuclear power ops as shareholder
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120319p2g00m0dm011000c.html
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- "The city of Osaka decided Sunday to propose
that Kansai Electric Power Co. decommission all of its nuclear
reactors as soon as possible at the Osaka-based utility's shareholders
meeting in June in a move to exercise its shareholder's right,
said officials at the joint headquarters of the city and Osaka
Prefecture...."
Majia
here: Apparently they may not be successful because of limited
shares, but it is good to see resistance against the nuclear
energy mafia.
2012-03-19 Poisoning
Posterity, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Enenews
is reporting on a Yomiuri article about cesium detected in plankton
many, many miles from Fukushima (600 km away!)
http://enenews.com/yomiuri-cesium-134-detected-plankton-600km-fukushima-3
-months-after-meltdowns-scientists-necessary-look-bioaccumulation
The
original article can be found at Yomiuri Shimbun Mar. 18, 2012
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120317003393.htm
[excerpt
from article] "The amount of cesium detected in the plankton
was far below the government's provisional limit of 500 becquerels
per kilogram for marine products, according to the team led
by Jun Nishikawa, research associate at the University of Tokyo's
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute."
Majia
here: Eating fish with 500 becquerels per kilogram for marine
products is not safe as radionuclides can bio-accumulate in
our tissues and bones.
(e.g., see
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/cesium-tricks-life-with-potassium.html)
Previously,
Greenpeace criticized the Japanese standards by comparing them
to those in the Ukraine: "While the samples are well below
the 500 becquerel per kilogram limit set by the authorities,
the contaminated seafood still represents a health risk, especially
to pregnant women and children, and it is being distributed
over a wide area," said Wakao Hanaoka, Greenpeace Japan
oceans campaigner. The Japanese standard compares with a 150
becquerel per kilogram limit in Ukraine after the 1986 Chernobyl
disaster, the group said."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ibANHZtq9mjUNSnZ
V9UJUA6wYnVQ?docId=CNG.b386ee2679a07087a13a4808dee6523f.311
It
is worth noting that the US FDA guidelines for acceptable levels
of radionuclides in our food (Derived Intervention Levels) are
even higher than Japan's.
The
specific Derived Intervention Levels are here: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/UCM251056.pdf
The
specific “FDA derived intervention level or criterion
for each radionuclide group” are as follows “for
all components of the diet” for Strontium 90, Iodine 131,
Cesium 134 & 137, and Plutonium 238 & 239
Sr-90
160 Bq/kg
I-131
170 Bq/kg
Cs-134
+ 137 1200 Bq/kg
Pu-238
+ Pus 239 + Am 241 is 2 Bq/kg
What
are the health implications of these standards?
In
Nuclear Controversies by Vladimir Tchertkoff (2003), Professor
Yury Bandazhevsky (former director of the Medical Institute
in Gomel), states that "Over 50 Bq/kg of body weight lead
to irreversible lesions in vital organs"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8746168177815160826#
We
are poisoning ourselves and compromising our genetic legacy
for future generations
And
we are ensuring our (global) population's ignorance about the
effects of radiation so that no concerted resistance occurs
against a nuclear-energy complex that produces invisible death
Mainichi:
Over 40% of Fukushima children do not understand much about
radiation: poll
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120319p2g00m0dm007000c.html
2012-03-19 Fukushima
Videos by Nuckelchen, majiasblog.blogspot.com,
posted by NoNukes at Enenews
March
7 Black Clouds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FedUe-3oag
More:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYUEAy6regM&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=304Ul_45RI4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGlBIwVIVCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwudPBUFYqw
2012-03-19 Fukushima
Diary: Radiation Levels Up; majiasblog.blogspot.com
Fukushima
Diary Reports that Radiation Levels Now 5X More Than in Early
March
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/fall-out-in-fukushima-picked-up-5-times-much-as-before/#comments
(MBq/km2)
3/10
9:00~3/11 9:00 Cesium 134 ND Cesium 137 ND
3/11
9:00~3/12 9:00 Cesium 134 : 9.95 Cesium 137 : 17.8
3/14
9:00~3/15 9:00 Cesium 134 : 19.0 (?190%) Cesium 137 : 25.1 (?141%)
3/15
9:00~3/16 9:00 Cesium 134 : 88.6 (?466%) Cesium 137 : 128 (?509%)
This
news should be read in conjunction with a report at Enenews:
Enenews:
Press Conference: We like to tell some serious news today —
Seems that radioactive substances are “combining together”
— “We are seriously wondering how much radiation
has been spread” (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/press-conference-we-like-to-tell-some-serious-news-today-it-seems-that-the-radioactive-substances-have-been-combining-together-at-our-foot-more-than-just-cesium-we-are-seriously-wo
[excerpted]
SOS
from Minamisoma
Press
Conference Part I, Feb 20, 2012
Uploaded
by: amuosim
Date
Uploaded: Feb 25, 2012
Over
1,000,000 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium (alpha,beta, gamma radiation)
form the mysterious black dust in Minamisoma, Fukushima JAPAN
Perhaps
all of the recent earthquake activity created more problems
at Fukushima and other nuclear plants damaged in previous earthquakes.
2012-03-19 "Low-level
radioactive water leaks at Tokai nuclear plant";
The Mainichi Daily News
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120320p2g00m0dm015000c.html
TOKYO
(Kyodo) -- [excerpted] "Some 1.5 tons of low-level radioactive
water leaked from a storage tank of a nuclear reactor in the
process of decommissioning at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s plant
in the village of Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Nuclear and
Industrial Safety Agency said Monday..."
Majia
here: The article states that the water was used to "decontaminate"
radiation protection suits, as well as other objects.
One
has to wonder what is really going on here, especially given
rising radiation levels in Japan.
Are
the recent earthquakes creating problems?
How
long can the truth of what is happening in Japan be hidden?
2012-03-20 Decontamination
Work "Futile"?, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Ukraine
officials: Chernobyl decontamination ineffective March 21
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201203200315.html
[Paraphrasing
and direct quote] A Ukrainian official used Chernobyl to illustrate
the difficulty of de-contamination. The official recommended
continuing monitoring of radiation around Fukushima "because
decontamination work--no matter how expensive--may prove futile."
Majia
here: This is an interesting article to find in Asahi. I wish
I could read the full Japanese version of the story. The English
version was very truncated.
2012-03-20 Kyodo:
Woman dies in Fukushima evacuation zone — Suddenly fell
ill and collapsed, by ENENews.com
2012-03-20 Gundersen:
20 percent of young girls living in some areas around Fukushima
Daiichi will get cancer from radiation over their lifetimes
(AUDIO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-20 Kyodo:
Radioactive water leak at nuclear plant near Fukushima —
May have flowed into ocean, by ENENews.com
2012-03-20 Strange:
Pieces of highly radioactive mystery black substance cling to
magnet (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-20 Nuclear
expert back from Japan: People in Tokyo “basically walking
on radioactive waste everyday” (AUDIO), by
ENENews.com
2012-03-20 Woman
in Her 50s Dies Inside the No-Entry Zone in #Fukushima Prefecture,
ex-skf.blogspot.com. [Editor's Note: As an interesting parallel
story, Leuren
Moret has voiced her concern to this editor that America
has been seeing an unusually high rate of heart attacks among
athletes at sporting events like marathons. She believes that
athletes who have been training in "hot rains" have
absorbed enough Cesium 137 and other radionuclides into their
hearts to be more susceptible to heart attacks].
There
is no information whether she was the former resident of Namie-machi,
but I think it is likely.
From
Kyodo
News (3/20/2012):
A
woman who entered the no-entry zone died in Namie-machi, Fukushima
At
11AM on March 20, there was a 119 call [equivalent of the
US 911 call, for ambulance for medical emergency] that a woman
in her 50s collapsed in Namie-machi in Fukushima Prefecture.
Namie-machi is designated as "no-entry zone". The
woman entered with a permit to remove heavy equipment out
of the zone. She was transported in an ambulance to a hospital
in Minami Soma City, but confirmed dead at 1PM.
According
to the local headquarters for the nuclear emergency response,
it is the first time someone other than the plant workers
died inside the no-entry zone...
...Namie-machi
had extremely high levels of radiation in the first 2 weeks
of the accident, and the residents weren't told about it until
months later. Asahi's "Trap
of Prometheus" says the Ministry of Education was measuring
the radiation level in Akogi District of Namie-machi on March
15, 2011, and it was 330 microsieverts / hour
air radiation. That would be over 55 millisieverts
in one week, and there were people who remained in Namie-machi
for more than a week, lulled by then Cabinet Secretary Edano's
word that "there is no immediate effect on health".
Let's
see, how would people like Dr. Yamashita and Dr. Kimura going
to explain the death?
She had a feminine stress.
She had an autoimmune disease.
She didn't smile enough.
She drank and smoked too much.
Pure coincidence. There is no way that radiation affect anyone
this fast.
2012-03-21 ‘Fukushima
Fifty’ workers speak out: If you blamed Tepco for symptoms,
told not to come back — 5,000 CPM internal radiation —
“None of them trust anything TEPCO or gov’t says”
-Asahi, enenews.com
2012-03-21 Executive
Summary of the Interim Report on the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
http://icanps.go.jp/eng/120224SummaryEng.pdf
Hat
tip: Paul Langley's Nuclear History http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/
2012-03-21 No.
1 long way from being out of the woods, japantimes.co.jp.
Kyodo
A
year after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was ravaged
by an earthquake and tsunami, the challenge of keeping the facility
under control continues, and does so without a clear picture
of what is actually happening inside the three crippled reactors...
...Following
a painstaking process to contain the world's worst nuclear crisis
since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the government announced
in December that the plant had achieved a stable state of cold
shutdown.
But
the fact that no one knows precisely what has happened inside
the reactors and where the melted nuclear fuel is located means
there is still great uncertainty over the complex's status.
Most
recently, tensions grew in February over the status of reactor
2 after readings on one of its thermometers showed a notable
rise, in a possible sign that there may be some trouble in cooling
the fuel.
While
Tokyo Electric Power Co. determined that the thermometer, a
thermal-couple device, was broken, the incident highlighted
the need for the utility to enhance the credibility of its system
for monitoring the reactors.
"We
should take this problem in the measuring equipment seriously,"
nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono told a news conference
on Feb. 14. "Given that work toward scrapping the reactors
is expected to take 30 to 40 years, it is extremely unfavorable
to see a situation in which the utility cannot obtain data."
According
to a step-by-step plan for decommissioning the reactors, Tepco
will start removing the fuel stored in the spent fuel pools
of reactors 1 through 4 within two years and the fuel from the
cores of reactors 1, 2 and 3 within 10 years...
2012-03-21 Reactor
No. 2 temperature near 80°C — Up almost 20°C in
a week (CHART), enenews.com.
2012-03-21 CNN
nuclear expert: I think MOX fuel is being used at U.S. reactors
— Contradicts gov’t claims — Made in Russia
with weapons-grade plutonium (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Reactor
No. 2 temperature near 80°C — Up almost 20°C in
a week (CHART), by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Asahi:
Japan schools required to “promote the use of nuclear
power” — Not allowed to buy teaching materials discussing
dangers — Policy to change?, by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Fukushima
hit by M5.0, M4.8, and M4.6 in last few hours — Two at
nearly identical location (MAPS), by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Fukushima
gov’t deleted radiation forecast data starting day of
quake — Can’t confirm who did it, by
ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Gov’t
testing “suspicious black dust” for plutonium —
Taken from places already ‘decontaminated’ —
Official: Prepare for ‘undetectable’ results, “I
believe it will be more or less adjusted to what the authorities
will be OK with”, by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Kyodo:
Fukushima Daiichi “long way from being out of the woods”
— No one knows where melted nuclear fuel is located —
Still great uncertainty over the complex’s status,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-21
Official at Meeting: “We recognize that there are black
materials everywhere in the city” of Minamisoma,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Tepco:
Fire breaks out at Fukushima Daiichi — Happened while
working on fire protection equipment, by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Listen:
Serious long term concern as Fukushima’s “bizarre”
melted fuel interacts with environment — Release of radionuclides
now poses much longer threat compared to initial meltdowns —
“We know very little” says lead author
(AUDIO & VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-21 Listen:
Serious long term concern as Fukushima’s “bizarre”
melted fuel interacts with environment — Release of radionuclides
now poses much longer threat compared to initial meltdowns —
“We know very little” says lead author (AUDIO &
VIDEO), enenews.com.
Transcript
extract:
Burns:
[...] In terms of the damaged fuel, there’s been really
very limited studies. Basically several groups have studied
fuel that actually has been melted in a controlled environment
and its reconfiguration from a kind of physical point of view
and the release of gaseous fission products from it. But what
has not really been studied is the longer-term fate of that
material. So after the fuel has melted and it’s
mixed with various containment devices and so on – everything
has been melted into a big blob – we know very little
about what that blob looks like from a chemistry and heterogeneity
point of view and material science point of view, and we
know very little about how water or even just the air will
interact with that over time. And that, of course,
other than the gaseous fission products, which are basically
released upon meltdown, everything else is presumably still
more or less in that big unknown blob. And it’s the
interaction of the water and the air with that that
is going to control the release of radioactivity to the environment.
[...]
In
Fukushima, the meltdowns were somewhere in the range of partial
to complete depending on the reactor. Hydrogen explosions
did cause breaches in containment. Volatile fission products,
the gaseous things, probably were largely released early in
the accident. But what’s different about Fukushima
relative to the earlier events is the vast quantities of water
that were pumped into the reactor cores and into the storage
pools in order to try to cool them. And that created
a whole new release pathway for radionuclides out of the reactors
into the environment. We don’t know how much radioactivity
was released through the water flow, and we don’t know
very much about how the water interacted with the fuel and
other structure materials. [...]
I
think we need to take very seriously the development
of knowledge about how damaged and destroyed and melted nuclear
fuel moves in a reactor containment vessel and then how it
interacts with the environment, especially water that we might
use in an emergency to cool it. Studies that have
been done to date really haven’t looked at the
longer-term interactions of water and the atmosphere
with these damaged materials. They’ve focused mostly
on the very short-term release of the gaseous and different
volatile fission products. Those ones pose a lot of short-term
risk, but the risk is relatively short term because those
fission products typically have very short half-lives in the
minutes to days kind of range; some are years. But the
fuel itself – as it interacts with water or whatever
over time – has a potential to release radionuclides
that have much longer half-lives and they pose a much longer
environmental threat. [...]
2012-03-21 Japan's
Nuclear Future: Insanity; majiasblog.blogspot.com
The
Yomiuri Shimbun: "Govt eyes up to 30% future ratio of N-power"
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120320004195.htm
2012-03-22 The
Dangerous Myths of Fukushima, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Counterpunch
Weekend Edition March 9-11, 2012 (I must have missed this one!)
Exposing
the "No Harm" Mantra: The Dangerous Myths of Fukushima
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/09/the-dangerous-myths-of-fukushima/
2012-03-22 (for this day) Minamisoma
Official: “The children are the sacrifices” —
“The businesses forced the mayor to keep the children
here” 25km from Fukushima Daiichi (VIDEO),
enenews.com
2012-03-22 Now
hydrogen levels triple at Reactor No. 2 in recent days,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-22 Report:
Plutonium ratio 200 times higher than gov’t says —
Detection made 50km south of Fukushima Daiichi (RESULTS),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-22 Kyodo:
“Fear of radiation creeping south” — Tokyo
area may be in danger says Japan professor, by
ENENews.com
2012-03-22 Group
with SAM 940 isotope identifier detected high levels of Plutonium-239
near Iwaki a month after quake — 50km south of Fukushima
Daiichi — Found at multiple locations (MAP &
VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-22 Gov’t
Advisor: Results of children’s tests may point to an elevated
incidence of abnormal thyroid function, by ENENews.com
2012-03-22 Iwaki
City, #Fukushima Will Start Burning the Contaminated Disaster
Debris in the City in April, ex-skf.blogspot.com.
Not
a problem, says the city. The debris from the natural disaster
(earthquake, tsunami) was doused with radioactive fallout from
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
As
I wrote earlier today, plutonium isotopes were found in Iwaki
City on a metal plate that had been outside since March 11,
2011, and they were of Fukushima I Nuke Plant origin.
But
the city will start burning in earnest in April so that the
city is debris-free by the end of 2013...
2012-03-22 ANOTHER:
Plutonium-239 was detected at almost 8,000 CPS near Iwaki, 50km
south of Fukushima Daiichi — Found at multiple locations
(MAP & VIDEO), enenews.com. See also: Watch:
Alpha radiation detected 50km south of Fukushima in Iwaki City
— Up to 1,000 times more dangerous than beta or gamma
equivalent (VIDEO), enenews.com, dated 14 March
2012 "Alpha
Particle, Wikipedia "...When alpha particle emitting
isotopes are ingested, they are far more dangerous than their
half-life or decay rate would suggest, due to the high relative
biological effectiveness of alpha radiation to cause biological
damage, after alpha-emitting radioisotopes enter living cells.
Ingested alpha emitter radioisotopes (such as transuranics or
actinides) are an average of about 20 times more dangerous,
and in some experiments up to 1000 times more dangerous, than
an equivalent activity of beta emitting or gamma emitting radioisotopes."
2012-03-22 (for this day) Minamisoma
Official: “The children are the sacrifices” —
“The businesses forced the mayor to keep the children
here” 25km from Fukushima Daiichi (VIDEO),
March 27, 2012
2012-03-23 US
Gov’t: Widespread contamination throughout northern Japan,
including Tokyo — “Entire region would be required
to be posted as radiological area”, enenews.com
2012-03-23 Fear
of radiation creeping south; Some parents with young kids relocating
from Tokyo area by Megumi IIzuka, japantimes.co.jp
[Ed. Note: This should have been done a year ago]
KAMAKURA,
Kanagawa Pref. — Lingering concerns about radiation a
year into the Fukushima nuclear crisis have prompted people
even as far away as the Tokyo area, some 100 to 250 km from
the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, to move away...
2012-03-23 Asahi
Interview: Official radiation measurements are wrong —
Contaminated soil removed near monitoring post — Radioactivity
now many times lower, by ENENews.com
2012-03-23 Paul
Langley on the 5 Days of Deleted Radiation Dispersion Data;
majiasblog.blogspot.com
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/deja-vu-nuke-gangs-old-tricks-japann-deleted-5-days-of-radiation-dispersion-data-just-after-meltdowns/
Good
commentary!
2012-03-23 Heat
Signature for Unit 3; majiasblog.blogspot.com
The
image is available at Fukushima Diary
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/scattered-fuel-of-reactor-3/
This
heat signature of unit 3 was produced by Goddard's Journal but
I do not have the original link. Apologies.
2012-03-23 Lies,
Lies and More Lies..., majiasblog.blogspot.com
Mainichi:
No major obstacle for fuel removal at No. 4 spent fuel pool:
TEPCO
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120323p2g00m0dm015000c.html
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- "The operator of the crippled Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant said Thursday the latest camera
survey into the water-filled No. 4 unit's spent fuel pool found
no significant hindrance to the planned removal of the nuclear
fuel inside..."
Majia
here: This is the spent fuel pool that the NRC thought was "missing,"
as documented in the NRC minutes...
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/nrc-operation-center-fukushima.html
Actual
transcripts
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A109.pdf
Lies,
Lies, and More Lies....
2012-03-24 Is
the Hydrogen Build Up at Reactor 2 a Direct Indicator of Fission?,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
Fission
reactions can be relatively steady state, explosive, or declining.
The
official word has been that all fission at Fukushima has been
declining (even when Tepco refuses to describe it as fission)
Now,
the hydrogen level is rising fast in reactor 2.
Does
that mean that the fission is no longer declining?
Is
fission now increasing in activity?
This
fall Potrblog suggested that the coriums were in a "dance
with the devil" where the critical chains would start expanding,
and then get slowed down in a process of sub-atomic poisoning.
"Fukushima
Re-criticality Neutron Feast and Famine Cycle: Dancing With
the Devi" October 23 2011"
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2011/10/fukushima-re-criticality-neutron-feast.html
Majia
here: I'm interested in people's opinion whether or not the
hydrogen build-up is, as both both Mark and Steve suggest below,
indicative of a building critical chain of fission reactions?
We
know that unit 2 is the devil, but have Tepco workers' efforts
to keep it cooled failed?
I
wonder how many worker lives have already been lost due to that
particular reactor, let alone the others...?
Here
are the relevant headlines and excerpts from Steve's and Mark's
comments found at Enenews:
Enenews:
Hydrogen levels now quadruple at Reactor No. 2 http://enenews.com/hydrogen-levels-continue-rise-reactor-2-quadrupled-weeks
Original
link http://enenews.com/hydrogen-levels-continue-rise-reactor-2-quadrupled-weeks
Comment
by Mark on the Enenews thread:
"Just
in case it needs to be mentioned, hydrogen is an indication
of ongoing nuclear fission, I believe. Off the top of my head,
correct me if necessary, the nuclear process splits the water
into its elements, hydrogen and oxygen. So this means reactor
2 or rather the mess of melted out of containment and somewhere
in the ground blob of molten highly radioactive remains of fuel
rods are now fissioning again and TEPCO can't control it...."
Steve
from Virginia's comment:
"Hydrogen
is an indicator of chain reactions as a great deal of energy
is required to break down the water molecules by way of radiolysis.
Other indicators are increase in temperatures (which was indicated
until Tepco removed instrument database), an increase in Xenon
isotopes (which Tepco does not monitor/release), steam or vapor
escaping from the plant or the ground near the building (which
does not appear on blurry Tepco videos or is on the other side
of the buildings from the cameras) and increases in radiation
in and around the building (check)."
Majia
here: It is worth pointing out that there was a recent radiation
spike in California and Arizona and Potrblog had higher readings
again:
Also,
Potrblog reports rain 23X Background, which is much higher than
detected by them in a while
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/03/23x-background-radiation-in-4pm-32312.html
I
don't know what the implications of another explosion are.
However,
the lack of further explosions has made it possible for the
Japanese government and Tepco to conspire with the other governments
of the world to hide the severity of the disaster.
The
consequences for the Japanese are unknown, but they are not
going to be pleasant for the people who develop disease from
being poisoned by radioactive air, water, and food.
Would
another explosion make the situation worse or would it ultimately
make it evident to the entire public in the northern hemisphere
that Japan is being poisoned and that nuclear power is totally
out of control?
Again,
I don't know what the chances are for another explosion, and
I don't know whether that would make the contamination worse;
but, I do know that the cover-up is ongoing despite increasing
evidence of extensive contamination and re-contamination (after
"de-contamination) in Japan.
2012-03-23 Asia
Times Reporter: Everybody is involved… It sounds, looks,
and quacks like a major coverup over ‘deleted’ radiation
emails (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-23 US
Gov’t: Widespread contamination throughout northern Japan,
including Tokyo — “Entire region would be required
to be posted as radiological area”, by ENENews.com
2012-03-23 Japan
Professor: ‘Fractionation’ probably caused much
higher plutonium ratio in Iwaki — Busby 11 months ago:
“Nuclear criticality explosions in Fukushima due to plutonium
fractionation”, by ENENews.com
2012-03-23 Fukushima
Plutonium Levels 200 Times Higher Than Japan Claims,
blog.alexanderhiggins.com. " A Japanese professor has detected
all 3 isotopes of Plutonium at levels 200 times higher than
Japan admits over 50 kilometers south of the Fukushima nuclear
plant."
2012-03-24 Radiation
dose triples at Tokyo monitoring post early Sunday — Doubles
at another, by ENENews.com
2012-03-24 Asahi:
“Officials scuffle with audience members” (PHOTO)
—
Entire gov’t to be mobilized for Oi nuke plant restart
— Strong likelihood Japan could have no nuclear reactors
in operation if locals don’t approve — Mayor clearly
opposes restart, by ENENews.com
2012-03-24 Hydrogen
levels quadruple at Reactor No. 2 in last two weeks,
by ENENews.com
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