Highest Radiation Ever Detected At Fukushima: 10+ Sieverts An Hour
Can this be verified?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/highest-radiation-ever-detected-fukushima-...
Highest Radiation Ever Detected At Fukushima: 10+ Sieverts An Hour
Remember all those idiots who claimed that Fukushima is contained, or better yet, the drama is exaggerated? Perhaps it is time to exile them all, starting with that moron from MIT, to Fukushima where the radiation measured at the base of the main ventilation stack just hit an all time high 10 sieverts/hour. The truth likely is much uglier: this is simply the highest reading the devices are able to record. In other words, there does not exist a device that can capture the true extent of the catastrophe at Fukushima!
From Bloomberg:
“I suspect the high radiation quantity was an aftermath of venting done,” Matsumoto told reporters in Tokyo. “The plant is not running. I don’t think any gas with high radiation level is flowing in the stack.”
Tepco sent three workers around the ventilation stack today after a gamma camera detected high radioactivity levels in the area yesterday, Matsumoto said. The workers were exposed to as much as 4 millisieverts during the work, he said.
The utility will create a no-go zone around the stack and cover the area with protective material, he said.
At least with Chernobyl, 5 months after the explosion it was pretty much well-known what the damage really is. In Japan, however, the ongoing attempt to hide everything from the general population, many of whom will pay for their government's lies with their lives, means that reality will only gradually be comprehended. By the time all is said and done, Japan's demographics will be far, far worse than even today. But who cares: that will be some other administration's (and unborn generation's) problem.
Fukushima Atomic Bomb
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The ONLY nuclear containment is hiding the radioactive reality.
There was at least one nuclear explosion at Fukushima.
These 'HOT' readings prove that an atomic explosion occurred.
The cat is out of the bag. Retrospective lies cannot undo the reality.
GammaCam photos make public fools of the liars.
The spin will not sell in Japan or the USA.
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Bond, James Bond
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This little physics lesson was included in a 1964 James Bond movie. ‘Goldfinger’ used induced radiation in the plot. James Bond uncovers Auric Goldfinger's plans to attack the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox with a small nuclear bomb. The "nuclear device" as Goldfinger puts it, is set to explode inside Fort Knox making the entire gold supply radioactive for 58 years.
http://www.universalexports.net/Movies/goldfinger-gadgets.shtml
Gadget: Nuclear Bomb
Status: Disarmed
Description:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQoSK9wibU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)
But it's wrong.
This little physics lesson was included in a 1964 James Bond movie. ‘Goldfinger’ used induced radiation in the plot. James Bond uncovers Auric Goldfinger's plans to attack the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox with a small nuclear bomb. The "nuclear device" as Goldfinger puts it, is set to explode inside Fort Knox making the entire gold supply radioactive for 58 years.
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The problem is that their physics lesson is wrong. Stable gold is Au-197.
If we irradiate Au-197 with neutrons from a bomb; we get Au-198
The half-life of Au-198 is 2.7 days.
Break it and buy it
Fukushima Green $$$
The Fukushima nuclear disaster has already dwarfed every precedent, but Chernobyl.
The USA has dealt with a fair number of public health, pollution and contamination issues.
Several statutory, regulatory and court decisions have been players. While the fine details are never completely satisfactory, these are some of the buzzwords: Superfund. Asbestos, Black Lung, BP-MACONDO, Erin Brockovich … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TjEklyF7-E
Japan has the Minimata mercury poisonings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFkyPv1jtU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djSI23s6JPU
Japan has already, and quite properly, hammered TEPCO, the other nuclear reactor operators and their lenders. Soon enough, the Japanese nation or its people will 'invite' General Electric, Hitachi, Siemens, Areva, Toshiba et al in for a little checkbook chat. The responsible parties must pay, to the last button on their shirt. We shall save our sympathies for the victims.
You broke it ... You bought it.
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$20T is a good start
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Smoking Gun
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The Gamma Ray Camera photo is the SMOKING GUN.
The Gamma Radiation photo shows the hot spots in the structural metal. This is direct evidence of a nuclear explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43982727/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7710XF20110802
Death in seconds: Radiation pockets found at Fukushima plant
The company used equipment to measure radiation from a distance and was unable to ascertain the exact level because the device's maximum reading is 10 sieverts.
TEPCO via Reuters (pb-110802-fukushima-da_grid-7x2)
An image taken by a gamma ray camera showing the bottom of a ventilation stack where radiation exceeding 10 sieverts per hour - seen here in red - was recorded.msnbc.com news services
www.GammaCamNow.com
Damn bad news
Excessive levels of radiation have already been found in beef, vegetables, tea, milk, seafood and water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43982727/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/#.TkISD6...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Fish caught
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Fish caught at a port about 55 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contained radioactive cesium at levels exceeding an allowable limit, the environmental group Greenpeace said .
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110809p2g00m0dm108000c.html
Actual news
Our team of radiation experts has found high levels of radiation in seafood caught by Japanese fishermen off the coast of Japan. This, along with the news that the Japanese government covered up the true extent of radiation releases from Fukushima and so put people in danger, shows it is long past time that urgent, transparent action was taken by officials.
At a press conference in Japan earlier today (video here and here), we explained how our radiation experts had visited ports in Iwaki prefecture between 22nd and 24th of July and conducted sampling of seafood with the help from local fishermen. The French laboratories ACRO and CRIIRAD analysed the radioactive contamination and detected high levels of radioactivity in a number of samples. This means that the contamination of the Fukushima coast is still very serious.
Greenpeace has therefore requested the Japanese government to make the labelling of seafood products mandatory and to indicate the radiation levels and fishing area, as supermarkets are not providing enough information to their customers. Radiation monitoring procedures should also be strengthened and food distribution regulations tightened.
All this should be done as urgently as possible. Trawl fishing season is about to begin in Fukushima and Ibaraki. This is now a race against time – seafood is a huge part of the Japanese diet. Unlike for beef, laws are not in place to trace the origin of fish and seafood. Relying on the government’s inadequate monitoring does not guarantee people’s safety if contaminated seafood reaches the market.
Meanwhile, it seems some government officials are more interested in saving their jobs than in the lives of the people they serve. According to the New York Times, government forecasts about the spread of airborne contamination in the initial aftermath of the Fukushima disaster…
…were left unpublicized by bureaucrats in Tokyo, operating in a culture that sought to avoid responsibility and, above all, criticism. Japan’s political leaders at first did not know about the system and later played down the data, apparently fearful of having to significantly enlarge the evacuation zone — and acknowledge the accident’s severity.
Not only that but evidence that at least one of the Fukushima reactors had suffered a potentially catastrophic meltdown was found by inspectors just one day after the March 11th tsunami but was kept secret for months.
This approach to the crisis cannot continue. The Japanese government’s handling of this crisis has been extremely poor. It should now begin to make amends by ensuring public safety and restoring people’s trust. Meaningful and transparent action is needed immediately.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/927/889/Contaminated_seafood_and_governme...
: This GammaCAM Image is
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This GammaCAM Image is direct evidence (proof) that there was an atomic explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The image was taken by TEPCO and given to Reuters ... and presumably every other credentialled reporter at the press conference.
http://af.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110802&t=2&i=471072172&w=450...
It is doubtful that the Fukushima P/R Team or the Reuters Team recognized the enormity of this disclosure.
The industry shills were noted to be in a fetal position ... whimpering, following this monumental P/R blunder.
The earlier disclosure of a 1[Sv/hr] cement block 'let the cat out of the bag'. The photo is confirmation.
WRONG!!
This GammaCAM Image is direct evidence (proof) that there was an atomic explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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The gamma image is NOT evidence of a nuclear explosion. What you see in the gamma image is that there is some piece of radioactive material - a fuel pellet perhaps - that was transported by the hydrogen explosion and is now resting in the bottom of the ventilation stack, which is connected to the reactor buildings.
The metal of the stack is not what is radioactive. If a nuclear explosion had taken place and flooded that area with neutrons - ALL of the metal in the stack would be glowing - not just one area. No - that image shows we have a piece of radioactive material now residing at the bottom of the stack.
"This GammaCAM Image is
"This GammaCAM Image is direct evidence (proof) that there was an atomic explosion"
According to who, Anonymous (not verified)?
According to the AEC
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PROOF, according to the Atomic Energy Commission.
Two documentary films describe an earlier uncontrolled atomic explosion in a nuclear reactor. There are many documented accounts of this fatal nuclear reactor prompt criticality. Perhaps it is simpler for non-technical readers to watch these military briefing films. It is easy to ‘cut to the chase’ about why the GammaCam readings are ‘proof positive’ of an uncontained nuclear explosion, ie ‘a smoking gun’. To view a description and explanation of this proof, simply fast-forward the film, to the indicated Elapsed Time (ET) [min:s]
18:46, “Evidence of an uncontrolled chain reaction”
19:18, “Only neutron capture could have transmuted (metals)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIBQMkd96CA&feature=player_embedded#at=817
http://highpowerrocketry.blogspot.com/2010/11/sl-1-nuclear-reactor-accid...
http://www.inl.gov/proving-the-principle/chapter_15.pdf
http://www.id.doe.gov/foia/archive.htm
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Idaho Operations Office
The Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One (SL-1), was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor. On January 3, 1961 the reactor was restarted after a shutdown of eleven days. Maintenance procedures commenced, which required the main central control rod to be withdrawn a few inches; at 9:01 p.m. this rod was withdrawn almost to the top of the core, causing SL-1 to go prompt critical. In four milliseconds, the heat generated by the resulting enormous power surge caused water surrounding the core to begin to explosively vaporize. The water vapor caused a pressure wave to strike the top of the reactor vessel. This propelled the control rod and the entire reactor vessel upwards, which killed the operator who had been standing on top of the vessel, leaving him pinned to the ceiling. The other two military personnel, a supervisor and a trainee, were also killed. The victims were Army Specialists John A. Byrnes and Richard L. McKinley and Navy Electrician's Mate Richard C. Legg.
On the night of January 4, a team of six volunteers used a plan involving teams of two to recover the body of Byrnes. Radioactive gold 198Au from the man's brass watch buckle and copper 64Cu from a screw in a cigarette lighter subsequently PROVED that the reactor had indeed gone prompt critical. Up until the recovery of radioisotopes of uranium, fission products, and the radioactive isotopes from the men's belongings, scientists had doubted that a nuclear excursion had occurred, thinking it inherently safe. These findings ruled out early speculations that a chemical explosion caused the accident.
Kinda concealing hazards
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Now, let’s see if we have this all straight from the Los Angeles Times story … TEPCO said “workers without radiation monitoring badges were assigned to areas with low radiation risk.” However, Japanese “authorities were simultaneously hesitant to look for casualties for fear of radiation exposure.” Yep, that’s the rub …
Radioactivity surges again at Japan nuclear plant
Los Angeles Times by Julie Makinen and Thomas H. Maugh II - April 1, 2011
Even as radiation levels are rising at the nuclear plant, public broadcaster NHK said Thursday that many workers at the facility do not have radiation monitoring badges. Tokyo Electric Power Co., known as Tepco, which owns the plant, confirmed the report, noting that most of the devices were destroyed in the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that left 27,500 people dead or missing.
Company officials said only 320 monitors remained out of the 5,000 devices the company had before the disaster. But they said the leaders of each team of workers have a badge and that workers without badges are assigned to areas with low radiation risk. Tepco added that it may postpone low-priority work to minimize employees being on site without a monitor.
Concern over radiation may also be hampering recovery of bodies in the immediate area around the nuclear facility. Fukushima prefecture still has 4,760 people missing, and media reports suggest that authorities are hesitant to look for them for fear of radiation exposure.
Reactor ----> nuclear BOMB
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Hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power generation station, self-converted to at least one nuclear explosion. The plutonium enriched MOX fuel in Fukushima 3 is the prime suspect for cause of the uncontrolled nuclear fission blast. The induced radiation in concrete, steel, brass and other common materials is ‘the-smoking-gun’. There remains little (no) doubt that at least one nuclear blast occurred. This is not some new, advanced physics concept. It dates to Fermi.
Nuclear explosions violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Thus, the Fukushima-3 nuclear explosion is a violation of the international CTBTO rules. Criminal statutes are called for under the provisions of the CTBT. So, when do the prosecutions begin?
http://www.chemcases.com/nuclear/nc-02.html
In 1934, it occurred to Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist, to use neutrons to produce radioactivity. In Rome, his group obtained a strong radon/beryllium neutron source and began to bombard the elements in order of increasing atomic number, beginning with hydrogen. Fluorine (Z = 9) target gave a radioactive product. In the next 3 years, the group identified 40 new radioactive isotopes.
Enrico Fermi received the Nobel Prize in 1938 for "his discovery of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for the discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons." Nuclear fission (the splitting of the atom) had taken place in Fermi's and other similar experiments. Scientists felt that this principle might be applied to construct an "atomic bomb" or a nuclear power plant.
www.nuc.berkeley.edu/dept/Courses/NE-162/Lecture1-history.ppt
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventors/a/Enrico_Fermi.htm
It's not a violation of the
It's not a violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, because that treaty is
NOT IN EFFECT!!! The CTBT requires that ALL 40+ nuclear capable nations ratify the
treaty before it goes into effect. The USA is one of those nations, but when the
CTBT was presented to the Senate in 1998, the Senate voted NOT to ratify. Therefore,
the USA has not ratified the CTBT, and the CTBT can not go into effect. See the
United Nations Treaty Status page at:
http://disarmament.un.org/treatystatus.nsf/44e6eeabc9436b78852568770078d...
Not yet in force
Parsing the CTBT
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Parse on PARSON ...
The Devil is in the details ... always.
Signatory nations have pledged to enact national statutes which outlaw nuclear explosions. So, there is an asterisk beside the USA name and Japan. Ratification has not occured.
The more pertinent question, is ...
Did Japan enact a criminal statute, which outlaws nuclear explosions IN JAPAN?
Did the USA?
Did Nation XYZ?
If so, there is a de facto violation of the CTBT. Folks can do time and pay fines, in Japan.
Frankly, I doubt that a commercial electrical power utility, generating up a nuclear explosion, is operating within the scope of their Japanese nuclear reactor license.
I know of no law violated...
First, I know of no reputable scientists or organizations that say that there was a "nuclear explosion". In fact, they have said the contrary.
(See other thread) The CTBT organization has said the measurements they've made are consistent with a reactor accident, not a nuclear explosion:
http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/highlights/2011/fukushima-related-meas...
The CTBTO’s monitoring system, custom-tailored to detecting nuclear explosions, can detect a range of radioactive isotopes, among them Iodine-131 and Caesium-137. Looking at the ratios between the various radioactive isotopes – in particular Caesium-137 – enables the source of the emission to be identified. In the case of the current readings, findings clearly indicate radionuclide releases from a damaged nuclear power plant, which is consistent with the recent accident at Fukushima in Japan.
I know of no law violated. The statues don't outlaw outcomes like nuclear explosions, they only outlaw the making of a nuclear weapon.
Additionally, USA and Japanese jurisprudence recognize "Act of God" events. The Fukushima accident was triggered by an earthquake and tsunami.
For example, if an otherwise well-maintained airliner is hit by lighting and even though it is unlikely, the lightning ignites the fuel air mixture in the fuel tanks, and the resultant explosion blows the plane out of the sky; the CEO of the airline doesn't go to jail. The airline had an accident, it did not murder hundreds of people.
Likewise, it appears that the Fukushima power plant met the regulations required of it under Japanese law. The Japanese regulations are quite lax by US standards. The USA has long required a vent system for Mark I containment buildings to prevent the build-up of hydrogen gas and the explosions that we saw at Fukushima.
However, the culpability is not TEPCO's, the culpability for poor regulation is the fault of the Japanese government. As in the USA, when the legislature is at fault, they seldom, if ever, hold themselves accountable.
They'll find a few public officials and scapegoat them. I see the Japanese government fired a handful of officials. However, that will be the extent of any sanctions over the Fukushima accident.
Spammers win
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It looks like the spammers have won.
We can't get through the spam filter with substantive comments.
Spammers churn up 15 week-old comments, and add nothing to them.
This does NOT appear to be the work of BRAWM. The BRAWM Team has worked hard to keep the website viable.
This is de facto 'prior restraint' of free speech.
It was good, while it lasted...
Later guys,
Bill Duff
No need to give up!
Hey Bill,
I sense your frustration at the spam filter issue, as I've experienced it recently myself. However, the BRAWM team are very reasonable people. I only had to post a "heads up" to them to check my blocked posting and they went ahead and posted it for me.
Why not try that, instead of throwing in the towel? We all benefit by the continued open dialogue of the varying opinions found throughout this forum, don't you think?
If you give up, then your valued opinion will not be heard. :(
I would rather go through a "two step" process like this from time to time, than having to wade through the annoying spam.
But if you do decide to leave, then I wish you well and really have appreciated your input up until now.
Cheers!
Seattle Mom :-)
Some generalities
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Certainly there have been multiple melt-downs, hydrogen explosions and containment breaches, at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. These melt-downs are attributable to an earthquake some 150 miles away and the ensuing tsunami. Piping was destroyed. Station electricity was lost. But there is more.
Structural materials such as vent pipe supports, vents and concrete have been converted by neutrons, into highly radioactive materials. The conversion of stable materials into radioactive materials, is consistent with nuclear fission. These structural materials form a prima fascia case that one or more nuclear explosions occurred at the Fukushima nuclear power complex.
It appears likely that a nuclear blast occurred at the Fukushima-3 building. The reactor and presumably the spent fuel pool, within the building, contained MOX, plutonium enriched fuel. Fukushima-3 has double thickness walls, which would tend to contain a compression wave a bit longer than Fukushima-1 or Fukushima-2. The control sytems at the Fukushima nuclear power complex appear to have misfunctioned. The hydrogen vent systems malfunctioned, a characteristic of the Stuxnet malware. These and other factors may have played a contributory role in causing the nuclear blast at the Fukushima-3 reactor building.
Many areas of the Fukushima nuclear reactor complex have gamma radiation values that will inflict a fatal dose within seconds. TEPCO dispatched many utility personnel, contractors and day laborers into the reactor complex without radiation badges. When the dust settles, it seems a given, that many of those workers will be dead or dying.
Speculative - NOT
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Not very speculative ... that.
There was a neutron rich exposion at the Fukushima-3 building.
Let it be noted that the stuctural metal towers, which support the exhaust vent piping are radioactive to the tune of 10 Sv/hr. The Gamma Cam readings clearly displayed in Reuters and MS NBC, are 'pegged out' at the maximum display of 10 Sv/hour.
The structural supports are still standing, and displaying highly radioactive readings at several discrete spots. This is not rubble. It is stuctural steel, of a grade routinely used in nuclear plant construction.
The phenomenon of induced radiation of structural steel, is consistent with a nuclear explosion.
Neutrons alter stable isotopes into radioactive isotopes. Radioactivity is induced.
Speculation
Let it be noted that nearly all the discussion about neutrons and nuclear blasts are pure speculation.
Fukushima Nuclear Explosion
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There is no safe nuclear explosion. Gamma Cam photos indicate fatal radioactivity emissions from structural equipment in the Fukushima reactor compound.
Previously inert materials are now emitting more than 10 Sv per hour. It requires a lot of neutrons to induce this high radioactivity in cement, steel and other common materials. This is direct and conclusive evidence of at least one nuclear explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0501/0501140.pdf
On March 25, 1934 Enrico Fermi announced that he had discovered neutron-induced radioactivity. The following October Fermi proved neutrons to be much more effective in inducing radioactivity when they were slowed down.
MISUNDERSTANDING!!!
Previously inert materials are now emitting more than 10 Sv per hour. It requires a lot of neutrons to induce this high radioactivity in cement, steel and other common materials.
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I see your MISUNDERSTANDING
You are NOT looking at previously non-radioactive materials that are now radioactive. For example, in the case of the gamma image of the stack. The stack is not radioactive. Something IN the stack is radioactive. It could, for example, be a fuel pellet that got entrained in the expanding gases from the hydrogen explosion and was hurled into the reactor building ventilation system, and is now sitting at the bottom of the ventilation system exhaust stack. That piece of spent fuel was radioactive before the explosion and is radioactive now. No smoking gun indicating induced radioactivity.
If there had been a nuclear explosion, that whole stack area would have been flooded with neutrons, and you would see ALL of the stack metal glowing with induced radiation instead of one "hot spot".
Nuclear explosions don't give you "neutron beams" or leave behind "hot spots" like some are claiming. Nuclear explosions leave behind great volumes where EVERYTHING has been strongly irradiated.
So you're stating that there
So you're stating that there was
reactor fuel in the explosion plumes and therefore a total breach of containment?
Neutron beams were clearly
Neutron beams were clearly documented. About a dozen?
No beams from explosions
Nuclear explosions don't give you neutron "beams". The neutron distribution from a nuclear explosion is isotropic.
Real Time Monitoring
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OTT5R01&show_article=1
Yahoo Japan releases radiation info on website
Aug 5 07:24 AM US/Eastern TOKYO, Aug. 5 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Yahoo Japan Corp. on Friday started showing real-time radiation levels at 11 locations in Japan on a special online map using data gathered by a group of academics in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A Yahoo Japan official said the beta service, using data measured by a team from Keio University, is aimed at providing access to readings in addition to those released by the government. The readings, updated every five minutes, are taken at 11 points located mainly in northeastern and eastern Japan including Tokyo, Nihonmatsu in Fukushima Prefecture, Sendai and the city of Chiba. It will increase the number of observation points in the future, the official said.
The URL is http://radiation.yahoo.co.jp/
To view a translation, go to google translate page and past the URL.
http://translate.google.com/# ----- http://radiation.yahoo.co.jp/
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout...
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t...
Northeast (2 points)
[Fukushima Nihonmatsu gold - Measurement point[, [Midnight August 06, 29 minutes Update Time], [0.313 Recently (in ?Sv)], [0.310 Last 24 hours (at ?Sv)], [2.71 Rate (mSv /year )]
Gundersen VIDEO UPDATE: August 4th, 2011
"Lethal Levels of Radiation at Fukushima:
What Are the Implications? TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation. Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite."
http://fairewinds.com/content/lethal-levels-radiation-fukushima-what-are...
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In addition to Arnie Gundersen's thoughts, I can't help wondering what part the continuing pounding by all the aftershocks in the Honshu east coast area of Japan are playing in the astronomically increased radiation at the Fukushima nuclear power plants. The nuclear reactors at Fukushima already were in horrendous shape. Add to this sad state of affairs the fact that both last Saturday and Monday (Japan time date), +6 magnitude shakers again struck Honshu. This is not to mention all the continuing +4 and +5 after shocks off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan. And, indeed, all the after shocks following the Great Japan Quake and Tsunami.
USGS government report for earthquakes re last Saturday and Monday (July 31st and August 2nd, 2011):
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35.php
Second High Radiation Reading
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Second_high_radiation_reading_30811...
Very good detailed article
“If nuclear fuels melted through containment chambers, Tepco will find even higher radiation readings after water in building basements is removed,” said Tetsuo Ito, the head of the Atomic Energy Research Institute at Kinki University.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-02/tepco-reports-second-deadly-rad...
FU-3 was a NUCLEAR BLAST
$50M Bloomberg blooper
Fukushima Reactor-3 was a nuclear blast.
“Mike Bloomberg is All In: A $50 Million Commitment to Ending the Coal Era”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s27Oq5ot0ZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrXhxmQJSS0
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Baghdad Bob) was known for his colorful, if somewhat less than candid, daily press briefings in Baghdad during the 2003 Iraq War. Apparently, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the TEPCO utility, is the new ‘Baghdad Bob’.
Why might this particular piece of deception arise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=player_profilepage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=player_profilepage#t=...
http://www.youtube.com/user/mikebloomberg?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=pyv&ad=7...
Beyond Coal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=channel_video_title
Mike Bloomberg is All In: A $50 Million Commitment to Ending the Coal Era From: mikebloomberg | Jul 25, 2011
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Peter Burns, former chief
Peter Burns, former chief executive officer of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency:
“The levels reported of 10 sieverts per hour are very high levels and it’s going to be very difficult to manage workers going into those areas and doing operations.”
“10 sieverts is actually a lethal dose of radiation. So you can’t afford to be exposed for more than a few minutes at those levels.”
“It means you’re directly exposed to fuel rods in the reactors or the spent fuel ponds very closely and while it’s possible to get to those levels it means there is very little shielding going on there.”
I was just wondering today
I was just wondering today when something on Fukushima would slip through the news blackout. A google search this a.m. showed all of nothing.
Try this site for current
Try this site for current info http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/ also http://enenews.com/
Going Critical
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The Nipponese are 'Going Critical'!
This is not about us,the USA government or the national press corps.
It is about Japan, TEPCO, General Electric, Hitachi, Toshiba, Siemens and Areva.
Conclusive evidence of a nuclear explosion at the Fukushima Unit-3 reactor is now in play, globally. This period of quiet can be considered at 'the calm before the storm' or as the 'eye of the hurricane'. This is what fear, dread, fury, grief and shock 'feel-like'.
The well-educated, tech-savvy population of Honshu Island, Japan has 'skin-in-the-game'. The Japanese homeland, which encompasses the nation, land, Emperor, keiretsu, zaibatsu and the people (ancestors, living and future-unborn). To borrow a phrase, they are 'going critical'!
My Burning Back
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/featured/lineup.html
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/genre/documentary.html
NHK WORLD is presenting 13 programs that pose the question of war, peace and nuclear power in its “August Chronicles” series.
One (2005) feature "My Burning Back", is Mr. Sumiteru Taniguchi, a horribly burned Nagasaki victim at age 16.
http://users.dickinson.edu/~history/product/steele/taniguchi.htm
http://users.dickinson.edu/~history/product/steele/seniorthesis.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/fallout/taniguchitranscr...
http://www.answers.com/topic/white-light-black-rain-the-destruction-of-h...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeCkyX5dzrE
Gamma Ray Camera
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The Gamma Radiation photo shows the hot spots in the structural metal. This is direct evidence of a nuclear explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43982727/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7710XF20110802
Death in seconds: Radiation pockets found at Fukushima plant
The company used equipment to measure radiation from a distance and was unable to ascertain the exact level because the device's maximum reading is 10 sieverts.
TEPCO via Reuters (pb-110802-fukushima-da_grid-7x2)
An image taken by a gamma ray camera showing the bottom of a ventilation stack where radiation exceeding 10 sieverts per hour - seen here in red - was recorded.msnbc.com news services
www.GammaCamNow.com
Censorship
I didn't even hear about this until today... I happened to see a headline on Yahoo News just now, but when I clicked on it, it didn't exist - at all. Then when I went to the only story I could locate, on Bloomberg, it kept closing before I could read this. I haven't had ANY problems with this computer in the four years I have had it. But I'll tell you, this kind of censorship is so evil and ridiculous that I took screen captures of the blank page (with Fukushima url at the top) and the disappearing Bloomberg story just to document the absurdity of the world we now live in.
Yes I know, it's all benign and I'm over-reacting and our governement LOVES us...
... but ANYONE who can live in American society today -- with the huge holes in information we live with (yet we must read every day about Hugo Chavez and anyone else our racist/fascist leaders wants us to hate) --- and believe we are safe and free is a head-in-the-sand MORON, and I don't care how many PHDs you have.
We need MORE Wikileaks and MORE whistleblowers --- I appreciate courageous, decent people like Julian Assange more everyday that I live in my "home of the brave".
Thanks for letting me vent.
Uh, you mean this article:
Please use your energy wisely. This Bloomberg article opens just fine:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-01/tepco-says-highest-radiation-ye...
Your government is not out to get you.
"Your government is not out to get you."
Oh yes they are. What a ridiculously naive statement. Grow up. Take the blinders off. The days of patriotic red white and blue and apple pie are long gone. This is not the country of our grandparents. And WE are to blame because we have permitted this monster to grow and flourish.
Keeping your head in the sand only permits it to grow further. Like a terminal cancer. And we're stage 4 now.
$50M Bloomberg blooper
:
“Mike Bloomberg is All In: A $50 Million Commitment to Ending the Coal Era”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s27Oq5ot0ZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrXhxmQJSS0
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Baghdad Bob) was known for his colorful, if somewhat less than candid, daily press briefings in Baghdad during the 2003 Iraq War. Apparently, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the TEPCO utility, is the new ‘Baghdad Bob’.
Why might this particular piece of deception arise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=player_profilepage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=player_profilepage#t=...
http://www.youtube.com/user/mikebloomberg?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=pyv&ad=7...
Beyond Coal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MAigglRf0&feature=channel_video_title
Mike Bloomberg is All In: A $50 Million Commitment to Ending the Coal Era From: mikebloomberg | Jul 25, 2011
With a $50 million commitment over four years, Bloomberg Philanthropies is joining the Sierra Club in its effort to effectively retire one third of the nation's aging coal fleet by 2020, replacing it with clean energy. The partnership, announced July 21, 2011, reflects Bloomberg Philanthropies' vision on climate change: that progress will come not from national governments and international bodies, but instead by driving action at the city and local level.
You too can help. Please join @ MikeBloomberg@BeyondCoal and take the pledge at http://www.MikeBloomberg.com/BeyondCoal
Have to pity the poor grunts
Have to pity the poor grunts trying to clean up that disgraceful, catastrophic mess
Too bad we can't round up all the industry shills in this country and ship them over to lend a hand...
how are they not dropping
how are they not dropping like flies over there? this is awful.
They are dying
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There are lots of variations in radiation related illnesses.
The WWII nuclear bomb deaths from Nagasaki and Hiroshima included:
Explosive blast, fireball, Acute Radiation Syndrome, immune system compromise, internal organ death, fetal demise, fetal organ failure, fetal genetic deformity, infant deaths, leukemia, various cancers and next-generation genetic damages.
The exposures were due to initial gamma ray, neutron induced secondary gamma sources, radionuclide fallout inhalation and dietary ingestion.
Lots of Japanese went completely insane from pain, grief, deformity and radiation sickness. Suicide was common. I expect that euthanasia was a component. US Marines spent more than two weeks 'roping loonies'. That was a long time ago, during an All-Out-War in which Japan was clearly the aggressor.
Oh, and it is all going on again. And again the Japanese people are doomed to suffer enormous pain. Birth ratios of males will drop from 1.015 to 0.80 or thereabouts. Fetal thyroid glands are dead, dying or weakened. Acute Radiation Syndrome is popping up in the children.
This time the culprit is negligent homicide for profit, on a mass scale. The GE Mark-1 reactor containment design defects have been known and ignored for decades.
The aiding and abetting after the fact, by industry shills probably will result in more dead bodies than the minimums dictated by the radioactive releases and physical conditions on the ground.
We shall see if the Japanese nation or the world community press criminal charges for crimes against humanity.
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And, what about those +100
And, what about those +100 missing Tepco workers?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/0
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/world/asia/02japan.html?_r=1
Fatal Radiation Level Found at Japanese Plant
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: August 1, 2011
TOKYO — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant said Monday that it measured the highest radiation levels within the plant since it was crippled by a devastating earthquake. However, it said the discovery would not slow continuing efforts to bring the plant’s damaged reactors under control.
The operator, Tokyo Electric Power, said that workers on Monday afternoon had found an area near Reactors No. 1 and 2, where radiation levels exceeded their measuring device’s maximum reading of 10 sieverts per hour — a fatal dose for humans.
Over here
From the North American standpoint, the "format" of the radioactivity will be what matters. If it is a gas, or small particulates, then it could travel. If it is "only" gamma from the corium, that won't travel. I guess we'll have to wait and find out.
Particulae have been
Particulae have been traveling intercontinentally all along, just at lower proportions than they were immediately after the explosions.