Contamination 330 kms south west of Daichi plant!
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_39.html
Radioactive material above designated safety limits has been detected in tea leaves harvested in 5 municipalities in Kanagawa Prefecture, neighboring Tokyo.
The prefectural government checked samples of leaves harvested in 15 municipalities in the region. Officials say that samples from 5 of those were found to contain unsafe levels of radioactive cesium.
They say 780 becquerels of cesium were detected in tea leaves in Odawara City, 740 becquerels in Kiyokawa Village, 680 becquerels in Yugawara Town, 670 becquerels in Aikawa Town and 530 becquerels in Manazuru Town.
Damn, this info is really a breaking news to me, not because of the levels (even it there are sufficiently high to make them unsafe!) but BECAUSE OF WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN MEASURED:
KANAGAWA prefecture is south of Tokyo!!!!
I located Odawara on this map for example:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=odawara++Jap...
So this is around 330 kms south west of Daichi plant!
Minami Ashigara, also listed in the article, is even further
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Minami+Ashig...
The scale at which unsafe deposits are falling is enlarging day after day...
You may want to check the
You may want to check the data published by MEXT since late march showing the extent of the contamination by prefecture, cause you seem to have the impression that this is the result of new deposits.
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/incident/1303962.htm
Not much since early April
Looks like the majority of the fallout in that prefecture was in early April. And I don't see any additional Cs-137 fallout since 4/4.
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/incident/1305529.htm
It's still unsettling (to say the least) to realize that the contamination has been that wide spread. No wonder the US news crews left Japan.....
it's not clear to me....
That's it all from Fukushima? There was plant east of Toyko that had some problems, and who knows if there were other plants that had releases from the earthquakes? A large number of nuclear plants are offline in Japan right now, we are only hearing about he one(s) that are high profile.
You can compare the extent
You can compare the extent of the contamination from Chernobyl with a map of Japan at the same scale and realize that is quite plausible that all the contamination detected came from only one plant, considering in Chernobyl there was only one reactor with problems (one reactor without containment that burned for 10 days, though)
http://ow.ly/i/anrG/original
You could be right
Maybe they aren't shutting down the Hamaoka facility just to "strengthen tsunami protections". Maybe it (or others) have leaked radiation. But, it would seem that all the monitors and maps across Japan would weathervane right at the source.
good point! I didn't think
good point! I didn't think of that. ENTIRELY possible.