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Japan
2012-03-25 (for this day Japan time) Radiation
dose triples at Tokyo monitoring post early Sunday — Doubles
at another, enenews.com, 24 March 2012
 h/t
Fukushima Diary, Geiger
Counter Readings
Security
Tokyo, March 25, 2012
Radiation
dose tripled at Adachi-ku in Tokyo (See chart here)
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3/25/12 at 00:00 @ 0.09 microSv/h
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3/25/12 at 00:30 @ 0.28 microSv/h
Radiation
dose doubled at Shinagawa-ku in Tokyo around the same time (See
chart here)
2012-03-25 Watch:
Japan’s top nuclear official freezes when questioned publicly
— Remains motionless for over a minute (VIDEO),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-25 Another
quake hits Fukushima — Same location and depth as M5.2
hours earlier, by ENENews.com
2012-03-25 Powerful
M5.2 quake hits off Fukushima — 4 of 7 on Japan intensity
scale (MAP), by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 German
TV: Armageddon if Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 collapses and melts
down — Could change the world — Most likely consequence
is that reactors 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 get out of control —
Interview with nuclear engineer (VIDEO), enenews.com.
Title:
Tokyo
Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US
Source:
Fairewinds Associates, Date: March 25, 2012
Transcript
Excerpts with Emphasis Added:
Arnie
Gundersen, Fairewinds Chief Nuclear Engineer: [...] Couple
of weeks ago though, I was in Tokyo and when I was in Tokyo,
I took some samples. Now, I did not look for the highest radiation
spot. I just went around with five plastic bags and when I
found an area, I just scooped up some dirt and put it in a
bag. One of those samples was from a crack in the sidewalk.
Another one of those samples was from a children’s playground
that had been previously decontaminated. Another sample had
come from some moss on the side of the road. Another sample
came from the roof of an office building that I was at. And
the last sample was right across the street from the main
judicial center in downtown Tokyo. I brought those samples
back, declared them through Customs, and sent them to the
lab. And the lab determined that ALL of them would be qualified
as radioactive waste here in the United States and would have
to be shipped to Texas to be disposed of.
Now
think about the ramifications for the nation’s capital,
whether it is Tokyo or the United States. How would you like
it if you went to pick your flowers and were kneeling in radioactive
waste? That is what is happening in Tokyo now.
[...]
Tokyo
soil in some places, the ones I just happened to find, would
qualify as radioactive waste here in the United States...
...Note
that samples are tested wet. Drying out the samples would most
likely result in higher radioactivity readings on a per kilogram
basis.
Cobalt-60
@ 40 pCi/g = 40,000 pCi/kg = 1481.48 Bq/kg"
2012-03-26 Gundersen’s
Latest: Think about ramifications for Tokyo… How would
you like kneeling in radioactive waste to pick flowers? Cobalt-60
in majority of samples, up to 1,481 Bq/kg (VIDEO & CHART),
enenews.com.
2012-03-26 Atlantic:
Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor’s Anti-Nuclear
Speech — “Seemed to suggest that the nuclear crisis
is not over” — Left out of all major evening news
programs (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 SICK:
Fear of radiation a “psychiatric disorder” in Japan
— The Cure? Have them work at decontaminating radiation,
says doctor -Mainichi, by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 NHK:
Water level “far lower than previously thought”
at Reactor No. 2 — Just two feet deep — Anticipated
it was 5 times higher — Decommissioning reactor could
be “much more difficult” (PHOTO), by
ENENews.com
2012-03-26 Former
Fukushima Governor who took on Tepco: My friends committed suicide
— One still in coma (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 Hydrogen
levels quintuple at Reactor No. 2 in last two weeks,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 New
Tepco Survey: Most contaminated location is near Fukushima Daini,
not Daiichi (MAP), by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 TV
Interview: Do you believe Tepco is ready to run nuclear plants?
— Tepco after 20 seconds of total silence: “That
is a difficult question” (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 Mainichi:
"Nuclear Industry Group Paid 7.9 Million Yen to 4 Scholars
on Fukui Panel", majiasblog.blogspot.com
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120326p2a00m0na005000c.html
[excerpted]
FUKUI -- "An Osaka-based nuclear power industry group with
strong ties to Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) paid four members
of a 12-member Fukui prefectural nuclear safety advisory panel
a total of 7.9 million yen in contributions between fiscal 2006
and 2010, the Mainichi has learned...
The
Kan Gen Kon [Osaka-based Kansai nuclear power council] says
it is giving research grants to scholars who have made contributions
to the promotion of nuclear power and the use of radiation and
are conducting promising research. It added it is operating
independently of KEPCO.... "
How
science is bought through research grants...
2012-03-26 Asahi:
"Noda to put full weight behind campaign for Oi nuclear
restart", majiasblog.blogspot.com,
http://www.asahi.com/english/
A
death wish...
2012-03-26 German
TV: Armageddon if Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 collapses and melts
down — Could change the world — Most likely consequence
is that reactors 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 get out of control —
Interview with nuclear engineer (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-26 Japan
down to one nuclear reactor: Japan was left on Monday with only
one working nuclear reactor after Tokyo Electric Power Co. shuttered
its final generator for scheduled safety checks,
telegraph.co.uk
2012-03-26 Gundersen’s
Latest: Think about ramifications for Tokyo… How would
you like kneeling in radioactive waste to pick flowers? Cobalt-60
in majority of samples, up to 1,481 Bq/kg (VIDEO &
CHART), by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 AFP
Headline: ‘Fukushima reactor in crisis again’ —
Renewed concerns about plant’s stability,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 NHK:
Whitish floating matter in Reactor No. 2 said to be rust, not
melted fuel — No endoscopy for Reactors No. 1 or 3, radiation
too high (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 Radiation
spikes in Tokyo at Shinjuku detector — Up to triple normal
levels, by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 AP:
“Hardly any cooling water inside one of the reactors”
— Water level only 6% of estimate — Radiation at
10 times fatal dose, by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 73
sieverts per hour detected at Reactor No. 2 — Measured
4 meters from bottom, by ENENews.com
2012-03-27
Intense M5.1 hits northeast Japan just after M6.4 — At
nearly identical depth and location, by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 Kyodo
News Advisory: M6.4 quake jolts northeast Japan — Intensity
5- of 7 (MAP), by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 *AP
Headline* ‘Gundersen: Tokyo soil would be nuclear waste
in US’, by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 Radiation
spiked near Fukushima — Highest in months for Iwate, double
normal levels, by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 Minamisoma
Official: “The children are the sacrifices” —
“The businesses forced the mayor to keep the children
here” 25km from Fukushima Daiichi (VIDEO),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-27 Mother:
School had children clean up highly contaminated area and relocate
dirt — Without telling parents (VIDEO), by
ENENews.com
2012-03-28 Nuclear
Consultant: Damage to base of Reactor No. 2 is ‘so severe’,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-28 Washington
Post: Japan has lots of plutonium on hand, little way to use
it, majiasblog.blogspot.com
By
Chico Harlan, Published: March 27 The Washington Post SEOUL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-has-lots-of-plutonium-on-hand-little-way-to-use-it/2012/03/27/gIQA7jjyeS_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
[excerpt]
— The plutonium Japan has stockpiled for decades was supposed
to be a smart energy source for the resource-poor nation.
But
last year’s earthquake-triggered nuclear accident, along
with growing global anxiety about extremists gaining access
to radioactive material, is turning a potential asset into a
liability....
President
Obama noted Monday that the “smallest amount of plutonium
— about the size of an apple — could kill hundreds
of thousands and spark a global crisis.
....Japan
has more plutonium on its hands than any other non-weapons state,
according to a 2011 report from the panel. Three-quarters of
Japan’s plutonium is stored in other countries, but Japan
holds nearly 10 tons, enough for more than 1,000 weapons, in
various storage facilities and nuclear reactors across the country.”
Majia
here: See my posts on plutonium
Data
Analyses of Plutonium Transport from Fukushima
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/uranium-plutonium-and-neptunium.html
Plutonium
from Fukushima Found in Lithuania
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ex-skf-plutonium-from-fukushima-found.html
Plutonium:
Not Our Friend
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/plutonium-not-our-friend.html
Article
on Plutonium Transport
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/interesting-article-about-plutonium.html
2012-03-28 Fukushima
monthly fallout higher now than 8 months ago in June,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-28 TV:
Radiation levels 10 times higher than experts hoped at Reactor
No. 2 — No. 1 and 3 even worse (VIDEO), by
ENENews.com
2012-03-28 Asahi:
High radiation means delays in decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi
— 30-year roadmap will likely now have to be revised,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-28 Japan
Radiation Professor: “Fukushima City needs to be evacuated”,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-28
NHK: Suppression chamber “may have been destroyed”
at Reactor No. 2 (VIDEO),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-28 Kyodo
hints Tepco’s long-term plan to decommission Fukushima
may be in jeopardy, by ENENews.com
2012-03-28 *Yomiuri*
Experts: Melted fuel may not be covered in water — Far
shallower than assumed — Tepco still claiming Fukushima
Daiichi in state of ‘cold shutdown’,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-29 Possible
smoke at Fukushima Daiichi? (VIDEOS), enenews.com
2012-03-29 *Developing*
New University Study: Fukushima release estimates should be
increased, especially for cesium-137, by ENENews.com
2012-03-29 NYTimes:
Core damage at No. 2 worse than thought? Reactor water could
be flowing directly into ocean or under plant — Risk of
fuel melting again, says nuclear engineering professor,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-29
Doctor: More and more often children complain of circulatory
disturbances, tiredness, dizziness after Fukushima
(VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-29 New
Analysis: Large amount of radioactive materials had discharged
through breach in primary containment at Reactor No. 2,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-29 Asahi:
Cesium started spiking in Chernobyl wildlife during recent years
— “Researchers don’t really understand”,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-29 Possible
smoke at Fukushima Daiichi? (VIDEOS), by ENENews.com
2012-03-30 Mainichi:
Highest radiation level yet — 37 times gov’t limit
detected in river trout caught 40km from meltdowns,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-30 UPI:
Fukushima at risk of a new meltdown — Level of cooling
water 29 feet lower than estimated, by ENENews.com
2012-03-30 Magnitude
5.0 hits Fukushima — Multiple other quakes of similar
strength in northeast Japan, by ENENews.com
2012-03-30 NYT
on Reactor No. 4: “Risk of another colossal radiation
leak” if cooling problems arise, experts say — “Tepco
has been racing to fortify crumpled outer shell”,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-30 Up
to 1 billion Bq/kg of iodine-131 was estimated in seaweed near
Fukushima reactors -Study, by ENENews.com
2012-03-30 Worsening
Health Conditions in Japan, majiasblog.blogspot.com
http://yumikikuchi.blogspot.com/2012/03/worsening-health-condition-of-fukushima.html
Hat
tip: Leuren Moret (thanks!)
Enenews
has a similar story:
http://enenews.com/doctor-meltdowns-children-complain-circulatory-disturbances-tiredness-dizziness-video
2012-03-30 Japanese
Government's Evacuation Standard is 20 Millisieverts a Year,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
from
background radiation alone.
Source
article:
Gov't
to revise evacuation zones in 3 Fukushima municipalities
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120331p2g00m0dm023000c.html
What
are the implications of this ridiculously high levels for adults?
"For
every 10 mSv of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3%
increase in the risk of age- and sex-adjusted cancer over a
mean follow-up period of five years (hazard ratio 1.003 per
milliSievert, 95% confidence interval 1.002–1.004)."
Source:
Cancer risk related to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac
imaging in patients after acute myocardial infarction. By M
J. Eisenberg, Jonathan A., P. R. Lawler, M. Abrahamowicz , Hugues
R., L. Pilote http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050947/?tool=pubmed
Majia
here: Japan Today is running essentially the same story:
Gov't
eases limits in nuclear no-go zone for 1st time. By Mari Yamaguch
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/govt-eases-limits-in-nuclear-no-go-zone-for-1st-time
[excerpted]
"A 20-kilometer zone around the plant has been off-limits
to about 100,000 residents for more than a year because of radiation
contamination. But the plant was declared stable in December,
with leaks substantially subsiding, and that let officials focus
on how to clean up the contamination and allow some people to
return.
On
Friday, the government said it was rearranging the evacuation
zone based on three categories of contamination, rather than
by distance... The change affects three of the 11 municipalities
inside the former evacuation zone..."
2012-03-30 High
Levels of Cesium Found in Tanks at 18 Yokohama Schools,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
High
levels of cesium found in tanks at 18 Yokohama schools
National Mar. 31, 2012 - 03:19AM JST
[excerpted]
..."According to the board, 44 schools in the city use
rainwater for flushing toilets. The rainwater is first stored
in underground tanks.
Between
last November and December, the city checked the sludge in the
underground tanks and found radioactive cesium measuring more
than 8,000 becquerels per kilogram at 18 schools...
A
junior high school in Tsurumi Ward measured 16,800 becquerels,
which was the highest level of cesium found in the schools...."
Majia
Here: I sure hope the water was used only for flushing toilets...
2012-03-30 Hospitalized
Hidaka city mayor was at incineration test of debris 2 days
before, posted by Mochizuki, fukushima-diary.com,
on March 30th, 2012
Hospitalized
Hidaka city mayor was at incineration test of debris 2 days
before
Following
up this article..Another
city mayor in cardiac or respiratory arrest
Mr.
Oyama, the city mayor of Hidaka shi attended at the incineration
test of Taiheiyo cement corporation 2 days before he was hospitalized.
It
was a demonstration to show how safe it is to incinerate disaster
debris. Taiheiyo cement is to recycle
the disaster debris.
At
this demonstration, Mr. Oyama and other 38 staff was shown the
radiation level outside of the container with disaster debris
as woodchip. Tokyo newspaper reports, they confirmed the radiation
level outside of the container was lower than
a safety limit, they said oh and Mr. Oyama nodded big.
Source
2012-03-31 Hidaka
city mayor passed away, Posted by Mochizuki on
March 31st, 2012
Following
up this information..Hospitalized
Hidaka city mayor was at incineration test of debris 2 days
before
Hidaka
city mayor, Osawa Yoshio passes away from cardiac infarct.
It
was 0:46 3/31/2012 at Saitama Medical University International
Medical Center.
Source
2012-03-31 Nuclear
Expert on Major US Radio Show: ‘When I do the numbers,
it says Fukushima is as bad or worse than Chernobyl’
(AUDIO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-31 Iodine-131
levels rise 350km from Fukushima at sewage plant — Radionuclides
“starting to transform into other substances, such as
tellurium has transformed into iodine” -Local Official
(VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-31 Local
Official: “It is not really reported that strontium is
so dangerous that it used to be used for chemical weapons of
the Nazis” (VIDEO), by ENENews.com
2012-03-31 Local
Official: Japan gov’t did not reveal plutonium-241 detection
— Radiation dose was 50 times higher than total of other
three plutonium isotopes that were mentioned (VIDEO),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-31 Local
official suggested there’s more footage of Reactor No.
3 explosion, after bringing up MOX — ‘Videos of
explosion are not allowed to be seen’ (VIDEO),
by ENENews.com
2012-03-31 NYT:
“Cores at three of plant’s reactors melted down,
breaching their containment vessels” — Tepco maintains
fuel stopped short of breaching containment vessels,
by ENENews.com
2012-03-31 [for this date] Fall-out
spiked up in Fukushima again, posted by Mochizuki
on April 2nd, 2012
According
to the fall-out research of Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology, the fall-out level spiked up
from 3/30 to 3/31/2012.
(Cesium
134 + 137 , MBq/km2)
3/30/2012
: 21.31
3/31/2012
: 223.2 (? 1047 %)
2021-03-31 Wild
birds decreased by 90%, Posted by Mochizuki, fukushima-diary.com,
on March 31st, 2012
Wild
birds are decreasing in Japan. They report the decrease of small
wild bird is recognizable especially in western Japan.
In
Kochi prefecture, migratory bird decreased to be 10%
of usual.
Wild
bird society of Japan is receiving the reports that winter birds
are extremely decreasing in Fukuoka, and even
in Osaka since December. Usually, when they have plenty of food
in mountains, birds don’t come down to city areas, but
this year, birds are hardly watched in both of the areas.
Especially white-eye and thrush can hardly be observed in western
Japan. Wild bird society of Japan states, they haven’t
had such an experience.
2012-03-31
Voice of the streets, Posted by Mochizuki on March
31st, 2012
Because
I’m not in Japan anymore, I can’t interview people
on the streets, but I can introduce some tweets of Japanese
people.
Japanese
people are shy. They don’t like to show up on Youtube
or express themselves in English. Contrarily, foreign people
want to know what they are thinking, why they don’t evacuate.
so
I’m trying to keep the voices up here.
About
the settlement reports, I couldn’t keep the record because
I was moving from South Europe to Central Europe. I thought
writing articles should come before making the settlement reports.
Anyway, I really appreciate your support as always. I had a
lot from a lot of the people.
Everyday
I receive messages from my friends in Tokyo or in Okinawa. I
can sense they become sick day after day. People are having
nosebleed even in Okinawa. People are more nervous and tired
in Tokyo. I hope to share the feeling with readers. This is
what is actually going on.
[Japanese
script]
—
Chromame (@chromame1) March 23, 2012
<Translate>
Among
10 mothers of friends in kindergarten, who don’t care
about radiation, 2 of the children died of cardiac arrest in
January, 2 of other children have abnormal cardiac rhythm. One
of them is hospitalized every month. It’s in Chiba.
<End>
@chromame1
[Japanese script]
—
[Japanese script] (@thocoandbiscuit) March 24, 2012
<Translate>
I
heard that (?) story from the mother directly too. Around me,
a man in 30s and another man in 40s had sudden death, I was
scared too. I searched by myself too, am worried about children
remaining in North Japan and Kanto. will try to talk to close
friends.
<End>
—
[Japanese script] (@kikutijun) March 31, 2012
<Translate>
My
parents came from Fukushima city to Sendai. They say they become
awkward if they talk about radiation at neighborhood association.
Decontamination is not progressing. All the tree were cut from
the park and the surface soil is buried in the center. The place
is off limits. Decontamination on the roof is causing unnecessary
conflicts with neighbors because of the water jumping to the
neighbor’s house. The neighbor is aging. They don’t
even have energy to be angry.
<End>
@onodekita
[Japanese script]
—
[script] (@ahaha38i) March 25, 2012
<Translate>
Yesterday,
a 1 year old infant died in Koriyama. The parens went to see
him because he didn’t wake up from nap. had an autopsy
at Fukushima medical university, but the reason of death was
just “sudden death”.
<End>
2012-03-31 Picture
of the confederate from government, Posted by Mochizuki,
fukushima-diary.com, on March 31st, 2012
Following
up this article..Intense
protest against sharing radioactive debris policy in Kyoto
Confederates
were caught by camera in the protests. They are holding the
board to say “Let’s support disaster area by sharing
the debris.”
Source
onodekita
@onodekita
[Japanese
script] Source
<Translate>
You
can see the boards to say “Let’s share the debris”
or “Kizuna (=sense of unity)”, but they are hired
confederates. They were all wearing uniform of green or white
over the suits. All the boards were in the same size, covered
with laminate. Prints were all in black and red.
<End>
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