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Petition for release of info and transparency airborne radioactivity petitions.criirad.org . Don't know if this will amt to anything but the more this is publicized the better chance of making it happen.

@ia Hey, do you know if they are stored in piles outside, or is it more spread out?

@Bobby1 They roll it up in huge bales and stack them.

@ia Then you have to worry about the top layer, which will be soaked by rain. Contaminated air would get in, but not much, depending on the density of the bales.

@ia It might be prudent to move the bales into barns, or at least cover them with tarps.

@ia Sorry, power failure... the corn and beans currently on hand are probably ok, right?

@Bobby1 My guess is everything is in the elevators, they run huge fans thru those things, so that's a problem. Not all the trucks that transport the grains are covered.

Nothing is in the field around here yet, but we've been getting hit with plumes with torrents of rain the last few days.

Just checking, are we on the right board for this topic?

Iowa

@pj Maryland

@radioguy Oh yeah, I do wonder about the effects on foods grown for consumption, either by humans or by animals that are then consumed as well.

I've seen the grass numbers, which are more relevant than the spinach numbers to accumulation. I wouldn't trust anything I grew outside this year.

Interesting article. Sea salt and baking soda, best all natural remedy for curing radiation exposure and cancer. presscore.ca

Dr. Rima Laibow Recommends What to Do About Radiation www.infiniteunknown.net

@radioguy Grass Numbers... which continent are you talking about. Asia, North America?

@Debra Beckham Jumping in mid conversation. The rust on the blade in your tank. Photos I was working on yesterday and today. Noticing rust that seems to have been in between the inner and outer roof on the reactor buildings, in the wall/roof connections etc. I found an indoor shot of roof panels rusting over near the walls. One would think a building next to the sea with open water pools on the work deck would have ALL of the steel treated with rust inhibitors.

@Tenzing "As costs mount for the utility, TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu said the company would consider cutting executive salaries" . o O (OK, we considered it for a second... let's move along)

www.japanfocus.org has posted an updated paper: "Hubris Punished: Japan as Nuclear State" by Gavan McCormack: At Fukushima the reactor cores may have survived intact, but the management practice of leaving highly toxic and long-lived wastes in ponds beside the actual reactor, has proven a terrible mistake. According to atomic specialist Robert Alvarez, such pools contain radioactivity between five and ten times greater than that of one reactor core, with one pond holding “more cesium-137 than was deposited by all nuclear weapons tests in the Northern Hemisphere combined” and “a major release of cesium-137 from a pool fire could render an area uninhabitable greater than that created by the Chernobyl accident.”

Gavan McCormack: "For the country whose scientific and engineering skills are the envy of the world to have been guilty of the disastrous miscalculations and malpractices that have marked the past half-century - including data falsification and fabrication, the duping of safety inspectors, the belittling of risk and the failure to report criticality incidents and emergency shut-downs – and then to have been reduced to desperate attempts with fire hoses and buckets to prevent a catastrophic melt-down in 2011, raises large questions not just for Japan but for humanity. Could the rest of the world, for which the US government holds out the prospect of nuclear renaissance, do better?" www.japanfocus.org