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I might be missing something here ... The U.S. Dept of Energy's Situation in Japan web page <http://blog.energy.gov/content/situation-japan/> (Updated 03/25/11) has a summative slide show report, titled Radiological Assessment, March 25, 201 and on slide 6 there are two sentences that seem to jump at me:
(1) No new areas of deposition are apparent although winds since March 19th have crossed the area measured.
(2) Conclusion: In the area measured, radiological material has not deposited in significant quantities since March 19th.
There was an editorial note, though, that says "These conclusions are preliminary."

@borrrden We all hope for good news. Every day we are all hoping for it. I am going to sign off as well.

rest well, Borrrden . see you soon (check your domain name mail )

www.ustream.tv - sorry fingers slipped - from CNIC Citizen's Nuclear Info Centre

Hi Dean...I'm up...barely

ditto

I haven't been checking on things quite yet, eating some breakfast at the moment.

When I checked a day or two ago...They said these Japanese tourists were from 2 different places in Japan. I checked on the map and they were quite a distance from Fukushima.

instrumentation in todays world has increase so much.. when I started my career we were measuring in millicuries, then it went to a next order of magnitude lower then another order of magnitude lower.. so now it's able to see.. levels that are 10000 times lower than limits and if someone says.. it's 10,000 times normal.. it's stillnot exceeding a limit.

I'm sure different countries are hyper vigilant right now as well. So, anything above the 'norm' is viewed as critical.

usually what you see when radioactive isotopes are measures will be comparisons to CAT SCAN, regular x-rays, sun, natural occuring things. those comparisons to me sometimes are misleading because they don't talk about.. ingestion. the isotopes once in the body and depending on the type of isotope can affect different areas and organs of the body.. like the thyroid and why they say.. "saturate" it with normal non radioactive iodide from a tablet. there is a difference between doses of ray type radiation verses.. ingested doses

thanks to anyone posting information. Special thanks to Dean for giving accurate and insightful info without panic mongering or playing the role of nuclear defender.

Hi Dean, good to see you. What's your take on where the the highly contaminated water in (all 4?) of the turbine rooms is coming from?

ty billy...

hudebnik... that's been the million dollar question,, how does it migrate from the reactor vessel core area to the turbine area. I look at it as .. what are the paths to get there and try to see which path seems likely... we know there have been earthquakes with after shocks, we have had violent zirc-water ignitions and hydrogen explosions... so.. any path.. via penetrations for instrument cabling, electrical cabling.. piping penetrations etc. are paths for steam under pressure to escape and get to that area.. and of course the steam probably have concentrations of radioactive material which would be reading very high...

I posted a couple of web sites that are good in explaning core melts and even show figures of the diagrams of core areas where some of the leaks can get out of the vessel

Do we know if the turbine area is open to outside air? Damaged walls, roof, etc..

I'm not certain on that question stormy.. unless I've missed it in some coverage of the accident I don't know

@Dean thanks Dean, that sounds very similar to the routine hubby goes through

what is it stormy

@Dean Have they taken any soil samples from between the reactor and turbine buildings?? No expert but I do know what happens to excess water runoff [from dumping on the reactors). With the hydrogen explosions there was also bound to be a bunch of radioactive debris that could have been leeched thru as the water returns to the water table underground. Which also would allow the basements to fill up (assuming that they have a normal way of keeping the basement dry, such as a sump or "french drain") as the ground exceeded saturation from the [already disclosed] thousands of tons of water injected on the site.

I saw a news report yesterday about the water in the turbine rooms and the seawater contamination levels, to confirm I have this right since I'm maintaining a thread on a forum for some friends... the highly radiated water from the turbine rooms has been draining through the north channel into the sea and they are now containing that water and figuring out how to deal with it?