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Interesting article - "U.S. Nuclear Regulator Lets Industry Write Rules" www.propublica.org QUOTE: "In the fall of 2001, inspectors with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were so concerned about possible corrosion at Ohio’s Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station [1] that they prepared an emergency order to shut it down for inspection. But, according to a report [2] from the NRC inspector general, senior officials at the agency held off – in part because they did not want to hurt the plant’s bottom line.

When workers finally checked the reactor in February of 2002, they made an astonishing finding: Corrosive fluid from overhead pipes had eaten a football-sized hole in the reactor vessel’s steel side. The only thing preventing a leak of radioactive coolant was a pencil-thin layer of stainless steel."

The "reactor" at the wall theory doesn't hold water. Look at all the #3 pics where the instrumentation pool is clearly visible. Reactor vessel and said pool must be on one level for this whole construction to work. That means the reactor vessel is nearer to the eastern wall of the building than to the middle, but by no means "near" to the wall. No one would build such a reactor because it would weaken the whole building structure.

Daily fluctuations of radioactive fallout particles in ground-level air onlinelibrary.wiley.com
"All these peaks have a direct correlation with the passage of the 500 mb trough. The dynamic explanation of this process is that to the immediate west of the upper-level trough, we usually find low-level divergence and upper-level convergence with descending motion. It is this descending motion that brings down upper air and thus tends to increase the particle concentration. Miyake et al. (1960) also reported that similar meteorological conditions play an important role in the transport of radioisotopes from the stratosphere to the troposphere. They noted that the Sr-90 concentration in the ground-level air showed an increase after the passage of a 500 mb trough." Chen, Beck & Kuroda (1970)

According to Chen, Beck & Kuroda, any Strontium-90 in the US would currently be at its highest concentrations in NE California, W Oregon, W Maryland, W Pennsylvania, W New York State.

TEPCO Press Conference just started: www.ustwrap.info

Radiation in Japan Seas: Risk of Animal Death, Mutation? "There will be a potential for a certain amount of lethality of living organisms, but that's less of a concern than the possible effects on the genetics of the animals that become exposed," Rachlin said.

"That's the main problem as I see it with radiation—altering the genetics of the animal and interfering with reproduction." news.nationalgeographic.com

WOW, that is one awsome APP... Nancy what did you find ?

@Rob in SF :" Alcohol: 8 oz" in coke ? no, that's a fake :(

@Edano That's the ORIGNAL Coca-Cola, notice the drams of Coca extract too? People have done gas chormatography on Coke, that should be pretty much the real thing minus the alcohol and cocaine.

for android www.androidzoom.com and googlemobile.blogspot.com

@ColorMeRed is there an english version link?

Commissioner calls for verifiable probe of Fukushima nuke crisis

By Masakatsu Ota
TOKYO, April 14, Kyodo

The vice chairman of the government's Japan Atomic Energy Commission emphasized this week that Japan should thoroughly investigate the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in an internationally verifiable manner, possibly by involving experts from other countries to help guarantee the openness and transparency of the probe.

An independent third-party panel, rather than the government's Nuclear Safety Commission, should study the accident's causes and the series of crisis management steps taken in order for Japan to regain the trust of the international community, Tatsujiro Suzuki said in an interview Wednesday with Kyodo News.

As Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has called for launching such a panel, with Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowing to inform the international community of the lessons and experiences of the crisis, the problem will likely be how it would engage foreign experts in establishing the facts about the accident, one of the worst in the world.

''It is desirable that we take an approach different from past accident investigations,'' said Suzuki, the No. 2 among the five commissioners appointed by the prime minister to take charge of Japan's basic nuclear policies, while noting that it is his personal view.

Calling for ''a transparent approach that can be verified later by the international community,'' he warned that Japan would otherwise lose fundamental trust from other countries, citing many negative views about its response to the ongoing crisis in comments he has received from abroad.

As options for how to involve foreign experts, he pointed out that the government may either engage the International Atomic Energy Agency in the probe by the envisaged panel, set up a ''wise-person committee'' of foreign experts to give advice to the panel or ask an internationally renowned academic institution such as the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to verify the results of the probe.

If Japan wants to continue promoting nuclear energy, it should first ''frankly reflect on the lack of measures against tsunami'' and secure the safety of and public confidence in nuclear power as ''the basic conditions,'' said Suzuki, former associate vice president at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry who has served on the government panel since January last year.

To deal with the prolonged crisis, Tokyo should ''vigorously gather international knowledge and wisdom and adopt the best of it,'' possibly through a framework to absorb the expertise of foreign experts, he said.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

@Edano wow. So is that just lots of lip service or are they actually going to fundamentally change?

@Nancy : no, they won't change. just another distraction maneuver.

@elainekirk Thats is like a teaser for sure.. Have you found the results of the survey?

@elainekirk Nice all sorts of promises but no results. I have not seen or found the results in my digging around.

Goodnight all, and take care.

@elainekirk "TEPCO will conduct boring surveys"... I bet. ;)

@radioguy Have you ever seen how they do soil tests? Boring indeed. :-) On both accounts

@radioguy There is that whole hidden bomb making theory. I'm leaning more towards something like them running mox is reactors without approval.