Cesium fallout spiked to 349,000,000 Bq/km2 in one day at Fukushima City 60km from meltdowns — Near 40-fold increase from previous 24-hour period

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2012-02-18 17:09

So how dangerous are these numbers??

Title: Results of monitoring the environmental radioactivity level of fallout (preliminary) (No. 51 )
Source: MEXT
Date: Feb 17, 2012

2.14.09AM‒2.15.09AM

Cs-134 @ 4.15 MBq/km2
Cs-137 @ 4.83 MBq/km2
Total Cs @ 8.98 MBq/km2

2.15.09AM‒2.16.09AM

Cs-134 @ 150 MBq/km2
Cs-137 @ 199 MBq/km2
Total Cs @ 349 MBq/km2

8.98 to 349 is an increase of 38.86 times
http://enenews.com/cesium-fallout-spiked-to-349000000-bqkm2-in-one-day-a...

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350 MBq/km^2 is equal to .035

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2012-02-18 23:14.

350 MBq/km^2 is equal to .035 Bq/cm^2. That is a really small number. That means if you had a sheet of paper in area, there would be 20 Bq of activity from cesium. That is less than being near a gram of potassium. We have way more than a gram of potassium in our bodies and around us.

The Chernobyl permanent

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2012-02-18 21:46.

The Chernobyl permanent control zone is defined as 550,000 MBq / km2.

So if you had a sustained fallout rate of 350 MBq / km2 / day it would reach that contamination level in 4 years.

Of course, that assumes that what they're measuring is new and not just dust that's already there being picked up by the wind and redeposited on their sampling surface.

Details, details.

This is in a highly

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2012-02-18 21:20.

This is in a highly contaminated area. There is no I-131 indicated and the Cs-134/Cs-137 ratio is roughly in line with what one would expect from the original horrific release.

Also, please bear in mind this measurement is mbq/Km2...megabecquerels per square kilometer.

If you asked me to explain, I would answer wind.

BC