The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
YouTube Added: 21.09.2011
Related article from NHK: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110919/k10015688141000.html
More:
– BBC Fukushima Propaganda Debunked (Video)
– Fairewinds: Safety Problems In All (Mark I) Reactors Designed Like Fukushima – Introducing A Japanese Language Edition
Interesting until 8:30 into the video, then the global warming BS sets in.
Don’t miss:
YouTube did remove the video. I’ve found a replacement.
YouTube Added: 20.09.2011
Aileen Mioko SMITH, Kaori Izumi & Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear join Thom Hartmann. We here at the Big Picture and on my radio show have been doing our best to keep you updated on the latest developments coming out of Japan – as that nation tries to deal with one of the worst nuclear catastrophes in the history of the world. To help us do that – tonight – I’m joined by a few special guests in the studio who’ve flown here all the way from Japan to share their story – and to warn the world about the dangers of nuclear power. Later this week – they will travel to the United Nations where they will call on the UN to recognize human rights violations against children caused by the Fukushima crisis – and ask the UN to stop its global promotion of nuclear energy.
More:
– Tokyo: 60,000 Rally Against Nukes
– Japanese Government To Send Seafood, Goods Made in Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate As AID To Developing Nations
– Radioactive Japan: 42,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Dirt In Yokohama City
– Japan To Promote Use Of Potentially Radioactive Lumber With ‘Eco-Point’ Incentive
– Typhoon Roke Nears Japan on Track for Leaking Nuclear Plant (Bloomberg, Sept. 20, 2011):
Typhoon Roke brought evacuation orders and fears of floods to Nagoya city in central Japan today as it approached the main island of Honshu on a course toward the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
More than 1 million people in Nagoya have been advised to evacuate because of Roke and almost 80,000 have been ordered to leave due to flood risk, said Katsuya Kobayashi in the city’s disaster prevention center.
That’s more than double the numbers for typhoon Talas earlier this month, which dumped record rainfall on southern Japan, causing mudslides and floods that killed 67 people and left 26 missing. Talas was the deadliest storm to hit Japan in seven years.
Read moreTyphoon Directly Heading For Leaking Fukushima Nuclear Plant
– Japan: piles of tsunami debris turning into giant bonfires (Telegraph, Sep. 19, 2011):
Piles of decomposing organic waste, metals and rubble from the devastated towns of north-east Japan have been bursting into fire, posing a new hazard to emergency teams tasked with clearing away the debris and people who are still picking through the remains of their homes.
Fire departments in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures have been called out to deal with 24 blazes that had started inside the towering piles of debris that are being gathered on the outskirts of towns that were devastated by the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that it triggered.
Read moreJapan: Piles Of Tsunami Debris Burst Into Giant Bonfires
‘Japan Is Safe’:
– Japanese Government to Invite Foreigners Who Have Large Facebook and Twitter Followers to Tohoku So That They Can Tell Their Followers “Japan Is Safe” (EX-SKF, Sep. 18, 2011):
It’s buried in my previous post about radioactive canned fish and wheelchair out of Tohoku as ODA, but this merits its own post because of its sheer absurdity.
(Who do you call someone who tweets, anyway?)
From Mainichi Shinbun (9/19/2011):
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Tweet “Japan is safe” to dispel “baseless rumor”: Japan to invite Twitterers from overseas
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Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have started to make preparations for inviting people from overseas who disseminate information via the social media such as Facebook and Twitter, as part of the countermeasures against “baseless rumors” that have damaged sales of Japanese agricultural products and tourism industry. More than 500 million people in the world are said to use the social media. The ministry has seen the great impact of the social media in the revolutions in the Middle East, and decided to use the social media to counter the “baseless rumor” by having people disseminate the messages of safety and favorable impressions.
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In the second supplementary budget for the fiscal year 2011, the ministry obtained 1.5 billion yen for the countermeasures against “baseless rumors”. This plan to invite Facebook and Twitter users with large followers is part of the countermeasures.
– (Now They Tell Us Series) Groundwater Coming into Reactor Bldg and Turbine Bldg Basements at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant (EX-SKF, Sep. 19, 2011):
TEPCO finally admits, after confronted with the calculation by Tokyo Shinbun. To no surprise to anyone but TEPCO, the Japanese government, and probably the majority of the Japanese people, the basement walls and floors are likely to have cracked and been damaged during the earthquake.
If this is true, it’s good in one sense. Instead of the highly contaminated water in the basements leaking into the groundwater, the groundwater is coming into the basements…
From Tokyo Shinbun (7:06 AM JST 9/20/2011):
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Large amount of groundwater flowing into the basements at Fukushima I? Obstacle to the work to wind down the accident
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It’s been revealed that there is a possibility that several hundred tonnes of groundwater may be flowing into the basements of reactor buildings and turbine buildings in Reactors 1 through 4 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The amount of contaminated water should have decreased by now to slightly over 50,000 tonnes, based on the amount of water processed. However, there are still over 80,000 tonnes of highly contaminated water remaining in the basements. TEPCO has admitted to the possibility of groundwater flowing into the basements, whose walls may have been damaged in the earthquake and are letting in the water. This may affect the future work to wind down the accident.
– Japanese Researcher: Recriticality in July and August? (UPDATED) (EX-SKF, Sep. 17, 2011):
Yoyo Hinuma, currently at University of California San Diego, says recriticality may have happened in one of the three reactors at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in late July and again in mid August, releasing the largest amount of radioactive materials since April.
I cannot find much about the researcher, other than he was at MIT before, and that he has published papers in peer-reviewed magazines.
The article below says there was a criticality in March, but I don’t know if the reporter is referring to the explosion events in March or the recriticality in one of the broken reactors as some researchers have alleged and hypothesized.
(UPDATE: I totally forgot about the report by the UC San Diego researchers that radioactive sulphur of Fukushima origin was detected in California in late March, indicating on-going chain reaction. So the Playboy magazine reporter may be right. To recap, chlorine in the seawater being injected back then captured neutron, turning to radioactive sulphur.)
(Of all magazines) the article appeared in the Weekly Playboy magazine in Japan.
Part from Shukan Playboy Japan (9/12/2011):
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… Indeed, there are some inexplicable numbers reported on the air radiation levels by the government agencies. That is, a big rise in the radiation levels from late July to mid August. Dr. Yoyo Hinuma, who has published papers on the net about the seriousness of the situation since the beginning of the accident in March, explains.
Read moreJapanese Researcher: Recriticality In July And August? (UPDATED)
– Magnitude-6.9 quake kills 21 in India and Nepal (CNN, Sep. 19, 2011):
The death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake — and its aftershocks — along the border of India and Nepal climbed to 21 Monday, officials said.
Fourteen deaths were reported in India with seven others in Nepal, according to each nation’s Home Ministry. More than 90 have been injured in India.
Read moreMagnitude 6.9 Earthquake Kills 21 In India And Nepal
Tokyo isn’t safe at all.
Flashback:
– ‘Severely Contaminated Hotspots’ Found In Tokyo
YouTube Added: 17.09.2011
More:
– Tokyo: 60,000 Rally Against Nukes
– Japanese Government To Send Seafood, Goods Made in Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate As AID To Developing Nations
– Radioactive Japan: 42,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Dirt In Yokohama City
– Japan To Promote Use Of Potentially Radioactive Lumber With ‘Eco-Point’ Incentive
– #Radiation in Japan: 42,000 Bq/kg of Radioactive Cesium in Dirt Around a Drain in Yokohama City (EX-SKF, Sep 17, 2011):
It’s not that the city that clearly does not care much about radiation safety (cesium beef for kids, dumping radioactive ashes in the ocean) did the measurement on its own. A citizen measured the radiation in the area, got the sample and had it tested using his own money, and alerted the city when the result came in.
Then, the city finally went and took the sample to be tested. The result was 42,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium from the dirt that accumulated around the drain grid on the side of the road in Kohoku-ku (Okurayama) in Yokohama City, just inside the 250-kilometer radius from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
The city also found 35,000 becquerels/kg of cesium in the sediment at a fountain nearby, 27,600 becquerels/kg from the dirt overflow from the plant box on the road, and 11,320 becquerels/kg from the dirt overflow from the plant box on the side walk.
Here’s Yokohama City’s press release, taken from the message board of Yokohama Assemblyman Ota:
Read moreRadioactive Japan: 42,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Dirt In Yokohama City
– Japanese Government to Use Seafood, Goods Made in Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate as Aid to Developing Nations as Part of ODA (EX-SKF, Sep. 18, 2011):
I reported this already in late June, but now it’s a formal request from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the appropriation for the 3rd supplementary budget for the fiscal 2011.
Back in June, the talk was only for processed seafood like canned fish. Now, as part of the ODA (Official Development Assistance) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to use 5 billion yen (US$65 million) to buy up canned fish, wheelchairs and other industrial products from the disaster-affected areas and offered them to developing nations, says NHK News Japanese (9/19/2011).
See also:
– Potentially Radioactive Lumber to Be Promoted with “Eco-Point” Incentive? (EX-SKF, Sep. 16, 2011):
Seiji Maehara, who lost his bid to become the party leader and the prime minister of Japan, has nonetheless landed on a very powerful party position as the chairman of the DPJ’s policy bureau.
He went to Fukushima, and after visiting with the evacuees from Iitate-mura, he disclosed his party’s plan to use the “eco-point” system for residential housing to promote timber from the disaster-affected area.
Aggghhhhh.
What is the “eco-point” for houses? Well, if you build or renovate your house with energy saving features and alternative energy features (eg. solar panels) the government will give you “eco-points”. Then you can use the points at participating stores and buy whatever you want to buy with the points.
Read moreJapan To Promote Use Of Potentially Radioactive Lumber With ‘Eco-Point’ Incentive
For your information…
– [MAXIMUM ALERT] Neptunium 239 Potentially Detected In Saint Louis 9/14/11 Radioactive Rainfall (Sep. 16, 2011):
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The source has a calculated average 2.4 day half life. The half life matches Neptunium 239. Np239 decays into Plutonium 239.
IF WE ARE LUCKY, the source will not be Americium 243 but rather Uranium 239 (in Fukushima); given the 2.4 day half life of Np 239, it is possible that source came directly across the jet-stream as Np-239. The result would be higher levels of Np-239 and Plutonium 239 the further west one went from Saint Louis.
Otherwise, the source would probably be Americium 243 created in the MOX fuel reactor at Fukushima Unit 3.
UPDATE 9/17/11:
The video below records raw data being taken from the 1.33 mR/hr radioactive rainfall which fell in Saint Louis, Mo on 9/14/11. This data was taken after shorter half life contamination had mostly burned off.
The data shown is from one hour total count readings taken of the radioactive source, and local background. The raw data from the later part of the video has yet to be fully analyzed.
STAY OUT OF THE RAIN!
And how about plutonium?
– Huge Amounts Of Neptunium 239 Detected 60 Km From Fukushima!!!:
To recap, uranium-239, whose half life is about 24 minutes, decays into neptunium-239 with a half life of about 2.5 days, which then decays into plutonium-239 whose half life is 24,200 years.
– Fukushima cesium contamination widespread but less than Chernobyl (Asahi, Sep. 14, 2011):
An extensive area of more than 8,000 square kilometers has accumulated cesium 137 levels of 30,000 becquerels per square meter or more after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to Asahi Shimbun estimates.
The affected area is one-18th of about 145,000 square kilometers contaminated with cesium 137 levels of 37,000 becquerels per square meter or more following the 1986 Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union.
The contaminated area includes about 6,000 square kilometers in Fukushima Prefecture, or nearly half of the prefecture. Fukushima Prefecture, the third largest in Japan, covers 13,782 square kilometers.
The government has not disclosed the size of the area contaminated with cesium 137 released from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant. Cesium 137 has a long half-life of about 30 years.
The Asahi Shimbun calculated the size of the contaminated area based on a distribution map of accumulated cesium 137 levels measured from aircraft, which was released by the science ministry on Sept. 8.
The estimated size may increase in the future because the distribution map will be subject to corrections and because it currently covers only five prefectures.
– Sunflower Planting Hardly Did Anything to Reduce Radioactive Cesium in Soil (EX-Skf. Sep. 14, 2011):
Well, it sure looked pretty, a field of sunflowers, but if the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is to be believed, it did not do much more than looking pretty, and creating radioactive sunflowers that’ll have to be somehow safety disposed as nuclear waste.
Sunflower seeds were planted in many, many areas within the 20-kilometer radius exclusion zone. Who is going to dispose these nuclear waste, and how?
Read moreJapan: Sunflower Planting Hardly Did Anything to Reduce Radioactive Cesium in Soil
– Nikkan SPA Magazine: Researcher Says Large Amount of Neptunium-239 Also in Date City, Fukushima (EX-SKF, Sep. 12, 2011):
It’s the same researcher who said several thousand becquerels/kg of neptunium-239 was found in the soil in Iitate-mura, about 35 km northwest of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It seems it’s not just Iitate-mura that got doused with neptunium, which decays into plutonium. Date City, about 25 km northwest from Iitate-mura and 60 km from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, also got a large amount of neptunium.
To recap, uranium-239, whose half life is about 24 minutes, decays into neptunium-239 with a half life of about 2.5 days, which then decays into plutonium-239 whose half life is 24,200 years.
Read moreHuge Amounts Of Neptunium 239 Detected 60 Km From Fukushima!!!
“As we keep watch on the Geiger counter, the radiation level, as expected, is generally higher down on the ground, very occasionally peaking at around 30 microsieverts an hour.”
– Inside Japan’s nuclear ghost zone (BBC, Sep. 13, 2011):
The shops of the main street are deserted, motorbikes and cars are abandoned, weeds push through gaps in the concrete.
Vending machines selling drinks and snacks – always popular in Japan – stand unlit and silent.
Tomioka lies just inside the 20km exclusion zone that was hurriedly enforced last March when a radioactive cloud escaped from the stricken power plant.
Read more30 Microsieverts Per Hour Just Inside Fukushima Exclusion Zone (BBC)
– GSDF holds emergency evacuation drill near stricken Fukushima nuclear plant (Mainichi, Sep. 13, 2011):
FUKUSHIMA — The Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and residents of the zone between 20 and 30 kilometers from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant held an emergency evacuation drill on Sept. 12.
The drill, held in preparation for any further large-scale emission of radioactive materials from the plant, was the first involving local residents. The GSDF held a similar drill without civilian participation in July.
– Japanese gov’s trying to stop citizen measuring radiation (Fukushima Diary, Sep. 11, 2011):
On this morning’s NHK “Sunday Debate” program, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary-General Nobuteru Ishihara stated, “Geiger counters costing between 40,000 and 50,000 yen ($500-600) provide patchy measurements. We have to try and stop citizens from taking their own radiation measurements.” It seems that he really doesn’t like the fact that citizens are taking their own radiation readings. Even if the figures are patchy, the measurements still tell us correctly whether the radiation level is high or low.
– This Has Been The Worst Year For Natural Disasters In U.S. History (Economic Collapse, Sep. 9, 2011):
There has been a natural disaster that has caused at least a billion dollars of damage inside the United States every single month so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have been 10 major disasters in the United States this year. On average, usually there are only about 3 major disasters a year. At this point, disasters are happening inside the United States so frequently that there seems to be no gap between them. We just seem to go from one major disaster to the next. Last year, FEMA declared an all-time record of 81 disasters inside the United States. This year, we are on pace for well over 100. We just got done dealing with Hurricane Irene, and now we are dealing with historic wildfires in Texas and unprecedented flooding up in the northeast part of the country. This has been the worst year for natural disasters in U.S. history, and we still have nearly four months left to go. Hopefully after everything that has happened this year it has become abundantly clear to all of us why we need to prepare for emergencies. The world is becoming an increasingly unstable place, and you never know what is going to happen next.
Read moreThis Has Been The Worst Year For Natural Disasters In US History
11, Sep, 2011. At JR Hachioji station stairway to north exit. Geiger counter detected 0.378uSv/h was peek. Geiger counter position was around 1m so not on ground. It was shocking.
See also:
– Japan ‘Misstated’ Radiation … ‘And So Exposed People Unnecessarily’ (WSJ)
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant Back Into Recriticality
Read moreGeiger Counter Measures 0.378 Microsieverts In Tokyo Train Station 1 Meter Above Ground!!!