*** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and links

“Really troubling” wind shift said NRC: 1,000 microSv thyroid dose south of Tokyo over ten hour period on Mar. 14 reported US Navy — 300km from Fukushima — “This reminds me of the drill”
[link to enenews.com]

[snip]

JIM TRAPP: What we have going on is an admiral who has a Navy base at Yokosuka -- its spelling is Y-O-K-O-S-U-K-A -- believes that he has measured with instrumentation TEDE, he's estimating a TEDE of 1.5 millirem per hour.

CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Okay.

JIM TRAPP: He believes he has, thyroid doses of 10 millirem per hour [100 microSv/h].

CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Okay.

JIM TRAPP: And I believe a contaminant, microcuries, levels of 7 eA- 9 --

MALE PARTICIPANT: That's what I got.

JIM TRAPP: -- for contamination levels.

CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Okay.

JIM TRAPP: This location is approximately 188 miles from the site.

CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Okay.

~

[snip]

enenews

JACK GROB: Okay, guys, I apologize for bothering you, but things are degenerating quickly. This reminds me of the drill. [...]

what's really troubling is that we, we have had that wind shift -- the Chairman's here, by the way -- we've had that wind shift and the wind is out of the northeast blowing towards the southwest. That's inland and towards Tokyo. And there's an aircraft carrier in the port just south of Tokyo. It's about 180 miles from the site, about 10 miles southwest of Tokyo, and they're measuring on the order of 10 to 20 millirem over a 12-hour period total effective dose and roughly five to 10 times that, thyroid. [...]

~
b

[snip]

Hokkaido is celebrating its 63rd snow festival, Yuki-matsuri, during the first week in February.

All of Japan celebrates this supernatural harvest with extra enthusiasm after surviving what they call "3/11", the horrific tsunami and earthquake of March last year. But nowhere is it busier or more spectacular than in Sapporo, Hokkaido's Auckland-sized (pop: 1.8 million) principal city, where two million visitors arrive each year in February to see the phenomenal constructions lined up in the city's central park and downtown streets.

The main source of protein is seafood from the cold currents of the Sea of Japan. Oily fish like salmon, tuna and herring underpin the cuisine, with crab, prawns, scallops, squid and octopus, salmon roe and sea urchin appearing as sushi or sashimi at the tiny bars and restaurants.

A premium is placed on freshness, especially of seafood, and it's worth poking around the alleys beyond the ubiquitous ''sushi-streets" set up for tourists.


It is poetic, in a travel-brochure-y kind of way. Tantalizing the potential tourists of NZ, eh.

I'd be a little wary of that 'back-alley sushi' or any other kind for that matter.


Interesting that they mention the eq and tsunami but not a peep about the NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS.


They did, however, acknowledge a slight problem with the beef...

[snip]

Beef from Miyagi prefecture, recently freed from its post-nuclear meltdown ban, might take a while to recover its popular place in Japanese cuisine. Worries about cattle consuming straw contaminated by radioactive caesium have hit consumption and exports hard, but the beef is widely eaten again outside Fukushima, the site of the damaged nuclear power plant.



~
b

Study: Fuel damage not ‘major’ at Fukushima Reactors No. 5 and 6 — Emissions from cores and spent fuel pools not ‘large’
[link to enenews.com]

~

here's a little snip that i found interesting, and maybe of little real relevance, but hey....

[link to www.japantoday.com]

government to set up complete child care centers for mums in tokyo.

am i being paranoid, or is the coincidence linked to being able to monitor children for contamination?

Radioactive sewage sludge and incinerated ash stocked 100,000 tones in 12 prefectures

[link to fukushima-diary.com]

[snip]


At the moment of 2/3/2012, in 12 prefectures, radioactive contaminated sewage sludge and incinerated ash are 97,000 tones, which is 360 % of the amount of last July.

~

yeah saw that bug, and the fact they have nowhere to store it, and no effort to track the ash in the smoke.... nice one....

Contamination level is increasing in Tokyo Bay
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

[snip]

Following up this article..Tama river fish contaminated

Cesium is carried from the rivers to Tokyo Bay.

Prof. Yamazaki from Kinki university measured cesium contained sea ground soil at 36 points of Tokyo bay. The result shows the contamination level is increasing near the outlet of Arakawa river. He assumes cesium is carried from contaminated river.



~

That makes sense considering we've already posted reports of trucks dumping into rivers and into Tokyo Bay...

~

Ministry hid projections of radiation spew
SPEEDI forecast judged too chilling for public release: internal memo
[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

[snip]

Former science minister Yoshiaki Takaki and other top ministry officials decided to withhold radiation forecast data from the public four days after the March 11 disasters triggered the nuclear crisis, an internal document shows.

Asked about the matter, a ministry official denied that senior officials had made a decision on releasing the data and said the contents of the document, an internal memorandum prepared by ministry officials, were inaccurate.

~


Denial, of course. Spin to follow.

~
b

Tepco Handout: Working to prevent “break of structural materials” at No. 3 Spent Fuel Pool — Spent past 6 weeks removing radioactive material — Salt corroding structure?

[link to enenews.com]




Hard to believe there is an SFP there to remove anything from, if you look at the photos.

~
b

It seems in all these transcripts Jaczko just says "OK". Idiot.

I guess they are prepping the sheeple to tell us later that they have done a good job of removing all of the spent fuel rods ..... LMAO.......

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

Nuclear Wasteland......

scary really, what with all those tornadoes... are the US reactors tornado proof?????

[link to www.sbs.com.au]

60 minute documentary on SBS, talking about Nukes, Thorium reactors and of course, heavily Nuke pro biased....

Govt tries to quell disaster-related rumors
Nearly one year after the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, the Japanese government says it will try harder to silence rumors overseas about radiation contamination.

The government has established a panel, consisting of various ministers, to step up PR activities to audiences abroad.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
.

Rumors...seriously? The facts are actually coming out about the incident. The US military had high readings 180 miles away. I'm still pissed about that. To quote the veterans today article "we will not forget".

I think in Theory they are right,
there is toooooooo much Disinformation out there,
Japan is not that Radiated/ Contaminated and many
parts of Japan are Okay to visit and yes even toooo live in!

My Concern is that i want to see NEUTRAL Information
and not a governmental sponsored Propaganda Center!

Fears for safety at Fukushima one year on
[link to www.terradaily.com]

[snip]

To some of the men who earn as little as $100 a day to work inside Japan's Fukushima Daiichi, the plant at the centre of a year-old nuclear disaster is far from safe -- despite the official line.

TEPCO says at least 167 workers are no longer able to work in nuclear plants because their lifetime radiation exposure has topped 100 millisieverts -- the upper limit for workers.



"There are many spots where radiation levels are extremely high," he told AFP.

The man said subcontractors like him were treated like animals.

"(TEPCO) was pushing for sloppy construction as it has been in a hurry to achieve cold shutdown as quickly as possible," he said.

"TEPCO has to maintain this cold shutdown status for years and years to come, but can they make it happen without exposing plant workers to radiation? That's the question."

~

"8 of 17 children have atypical lymphocyte
Posted by Mochizuki on March 5th, 2012 · No Comments

Private institute of radiation risk researcher announced 8 of 17 children have atypical lymphocyte on 3/4/2012.

The institute is run by 3 doctors and advised by Dr. Hida, who researched Hiroshima victims."



hmmmm..... this planet is a screw-up

let me off at the first stop thanks....

[link to fukushima-diary.com]

Discovery of Neptunium-239 in Iitate-mura Finally Published by a Peer-Review Magazine (Nearly One Year after the Discovery)
[link to ex-skf.blogspot.com]

[snip]


A paper by a researcher at Tokyo University about discovery of neptunium-239 and other short-lived nuclides in Iitate-mura seems to have finally been accepted and published by Environmental Pollution, a peer-reviewed scientific magazine. It was made available online on January 20, 2012, and is published in the April 2012 issue of the magazine.

Abstract

Here, we collected environmental samples such as soil, plant species, and water on April 10, 2011, in front of the power plant main gate as well as 35 km away in Iitate village, and observed gamma-rays with a Ge(Li) semiconductor detector. We observed activation products (239Np and 59Fe) and fission products (131I, 134Cs (133Cs), 137Cs, 110mAg (109Ag), 132Te, 132I, 140Ba, 140La, 91Sr, 91Y, 95Zr, and 95Nb). 239Np is the parent nuclide of 239Pu; 59Fe are presumably activation products of 58Fe obtained by corrosion of cooling pipes. The results show that these activation and fission products, diffused within a month of the accident.


~
b

What if the Fukushima nuclear fallout crisis had happened here?
[link to www.nrdc.org]

[snip]

There are 104 nuclear reactors in the United States. If one of them lost both primary and backup power for even a matter of hours, it could lead to a meltdown and an airborne radioactive plume. See what could have happened if a reactor in your area had a severe nuclear accident on March 11, 2011.

~
b

Kanagawa group starts checking food for radiation
[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

[snip]

The group will use devices worth around ¥1.3 million each, purchased with donations, installed at each of its two offices in Yokohama and Sagamihara to check for such iodine, cesium and other radioactive substances.

~
b

IAEA board meeting to kick off, with focus on Iran
A UN nuclear agency will have a board meeting on Monday focusing on ways to encourage Iran to halt uranium enrichment.

The International Atomic Energy Agency will hold a regular meeting of its governing board from Monday to Friday in Vienna.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
.

Nuclear security summit may pressure N.Korea
South Korea expects the upcoming nuclear security summit in Seoul to send a message to North Korea and other countries to give up their nuclear development programs.

South Korea will chair the 2-day summit in its capital starting on March 26th. Top leaders from 53 countries, including the United States and China, are expected to discuss measures against nuclear terrorism and for international management of nuclear materials. The forum started in the United States 2 years ago.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
.

TEPCO managers sued for 5.5 tril. yen
A group of shareholders in Tokyo Electric Power Company has sued former and current executives of the utility, seeking 5.5 trillion yen, or nearly 68 billion dollars, in damages over the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

The group of 42 individual shareholders filed the lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday against 27 people who have held senior executive posts at TEPCO since 2002.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
.

5 likely died of starvation in no-entry zone
NHK has learned that at least 5 people probably died of starvation after being stranded in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the disaster last year.

The earthquake and tsunami that struck eastern Japan in March last year left 1,605 people dead in Fukushima Prefecture.

Local authorities in the area say that at least 5 others found later in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant had starved to death.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
.

Medical personnel quitting Fukushima due to lingering fears of radiation exposure
[link to mdn.mainichi.jp]

NRC Transcript – TEPCO relayed information Unit 4 SFP Dry – Walls collapsed and incapable of holding inventory – Unit 3 “everything else gone”
[link to enformable.com]

More "OK's" from Jaczko

NRC Transcripts – Fukushima Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool crack and possible loss of inventory
[link to enformable.com]

NRC Transcripts – TEPCO video of Unit 4 SFP inconclusive – Japan claiming reflection of water but could be anything
[link to enformable.com]

I think I like Chuck