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The "Cerenkov" glow could also be due to cut filter operation. From jt's post yesterday: "Pink/blue transition in morning and blue/pink transition at night is an IR Cut Filter on the webcam. Not mysterious." Google "IR cut filter" and "blue cast" or "pink cast"

Thicket of differing views, explanations await nuclear accident investigators mdn.mainichi.jp

TEPCO fears leaks after level of contaminated water in disposal facility drops mdn.mainichi.jp "level of contaminated water kept in the basement of a building within the central waste disposal facility near the crippled nuclear reactors had dropped by about five centimeters in one day. The water was transported to the building from the No. 3 nuclear reactor. TEPCO said its analysis showed no change in ground water on the premises, and therefore it said, "The possibility is low of the water leaking out of the facility."" Do they think mysterious aliens are coming in and taking the water at night? Of course it is leaking.

@markfm - I've updated the flashwiki to read "The pink and blue effects have been explained as being caused by the camera switching between settings for day and night."

Greenpeace sent samples from Fukushima offshore to professional labs in France and Belgium. "The results of the details analysis are back – and we can say that the situation in the ocean along the Fukushima coast is worse than we originally thought." www.greenpeace.org

Morning all! The water storage facility is leaking......... TEPCO probes into possible leak at Fukushima
The operator of Japan's troubled nuclear plant is trying to determine where contaminated water from a waste disposal facility is leaking to, after finding that the water level inside the facility has dropped.

Tokyo Electric Power Company has been removing highly radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant's crippled reactors to the waste disposal facility within the compound.

The utility suspended the transfer from the No.3 reactor on Thursday and checked the water level in its section of the disposal facility.

Engineers learned that the water level had dropped by 4.8 centimeters over a 20-hour period, meaning some 57 tons of water has been lost.

The utility says it inspected inside the disposal facility and found contaminated water leaking to a passageway leading to another building.

TEPCO attributes the problem to a failure to stop the water leaking before the transfer began.
www3.nhk.or.jp

dog reunited with family 50 days after evacuating www.japanprobe.com

TEPCO started with the leaky hoses to pump fresh water. They then managed to leak water while doing the transfer out of one of the basements. Now the place they store water is leaking.

@Nancy New article today on Fuku beef cattle..forgive me if you've seen it already..... Fukushima farmers auction off their beef cattle
Livestock farmers who have been urged to evacuate from areas near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant sold off about 400 heads of cattle at an extraordinary auction on Thursday.

The farmers who took part in the auction in Motomiya City came from Iitate Village and Kawamata Town located about 30 to 40 kilometers northwest of the plant. The government is urging the residents to evacuate by the end of this month for safety reasons.

After the auction, market officials said the calves were sold for slightly below their going price but adult cattle fetched market prices.

One farmer from Iitate Village said he will sell 2 remaining heads of cattle, close his business and evacuate to Fukushima City, located west of the village.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 19:25 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

@Nancy, you'd think so. The article says GP wasn't able to find a lab in Japan willing to test! Amazing the dynamics of collective suicide.

Greenpeace's radiation testing database : www.greenpeace.org

Er - @LM you don't wish to rephrase that??

Fukushima No. 1 eyed as site for nuke fuel graveyard search.japantimes.co.jp "The Atomic Energy Society of Japan is discussing a plan to make the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station." Yeah, obviously a nice site to store things, good location, no likely weather or geological issues...

@LM That is really sad...of course, I can't say much, I dream of making videos that wake me up to check that the PC is recording and the screen does not freeze, lol

Cooling pipe breach now laid to temblor search.japantimes.co.jp "Tokyo Electric Power Co. admitted Wednesday that one of the critical cooling pipes at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's reactor unit 3 may have been damaged in the March 11 megaquake....But if the temblor had actually damaged the High-Pressure Core Flooder system — which is used to supply coolant water to a reactor core in emergencies to keep nuclear fuel from overheating — power suppliers across the country might be forced to reconsider the quake resistance designs for their reactors."

@hudebnik My unscientific view of the steam vs. weather is the "hot tub theory". If you have ever seen a hot tub outdoors in the winter, it puts of quite a bit of visible steam. I don't think this phenomenon fully explains the steam shows. What we know now, I think it is bits of melted rods hitting water somewhere in containment at 3.

@Nancy - with the excellent new graphs in preparation (ty Edano and others) we may be able to better correlate the steam shows with reactor events.

The new Greenpeace data is very disturbing:
"The new data shows that some seaweed contamination levels are not only 50 times higher than safety limits – far higher than our initial measurements showed – but also that the contamination is spreading over a wide area, and accumulating in sea life, rather than simply dispersing like the Japanese authorities originally claimed would happen.
Other samples showed lower than expected concentrations of caesium, but much higher levels of iodine than expected, which raises serious concerns that contaminated water is continually leaking from the nuclear plant."
Here are the original lab reports:
www.greenpeace.org
www.greenpeace.org

And a different angle on the same story: Greenpeace warns of radioactive sea life off Japan
By Yuka Ito, AFP
TOKYO (AFP) - Environmental group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation far above legal limits.

The anti-nuclear group, which conducted the coastal and offshore tests this month, criticised Japanese authorities for their "continued inadequate response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis" sparked by the March 11 quake and tsunami.

Greenpeace said it detected radiation levels in seaweed 50 times higher than official limits, which it charged raised "serious concerns about continued long-term risks to people and the environment from contaminated seawater".

It also said that tests, which it said were independently verified by French and Belgian laboratories, showed above-legal levels of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 in several species of fish and shellfish.

"Our data show that significant amounts of contamination continue to spread over great distances from the Fukushima nuclear plant," said Jan Vande Putte, a Greenpeace radiation expert, at a Tokyo news conference.

Japan's seafood safety limit for caesium-137 is 500 Becquerels per kilogram (227 per pound).

Greenpeace said it found levels of 740 Becquerels per kilogram in oysters, 857 in a fish species, 1,285 in sea cucumber and 1,640 in seaweed.

The maximum iodine-131 limit is 2,000 Becquerels per kilogram for seaweed, but Greenpeace said it found a level of 127,000 Becquerels per kilogram in the seaweed species Sargassum Horneri.

The group said that "eating one kilo of highly contaminated seaweed sampled by Greenpeace could increase the radiation dose by 2.8 millisievert -- almost three times the internationally recommended annual maximum".

"Despite what the authorities are claiming, radioactive hazards are not decreasing through dilution or dispersion of materials, but the radioactivity is instead accumulating in marine life," Vande Putte added.

"The concentration of radioactive iodine we found in seaweed is particularly concerning as it tells us how far contamination is spreading along the coast, and because several species of seaweed are widely eaten in Japan."

Vande Putte accused Japan of doing to little to measure and share data on marine life contamination and said "Japan's government is mistaken in assuming that an absence of data means there is no problem.

"This complacency must end now, and (the government must) instead mount a comprehensive and continuous monitoring programme of the marine environment along the Fukushima coast, along with full disclosure of all information about both past and ongoing releases of contaminated water."

The tests were conducted by Greenpeace monitoring teams on shore and from its Rainbow Warrior flagship, which was only allowed to test outside Japan’s 20-kilometre (12-mile) territorial waters.

Japan has said ocean currents and tides are rapidly diluting contaminants from the tsunami-hit atomic plant, and Fukushima prefecture told AFP on Thursday that no fishing is going on at the moment in its waters.

"We have exercised self-restraint as (prefectural) safety tests have not been conducted yet," said a Fukushima official. "We will make a decision after confirming the results of the tests, which will take place shortly."

The official added: "People do not bother fishing now. If you caught fish or other marine products in waters near the plant, they wouldn't sell."

Japan's fisheries agency, and neighbouring prefectures, have been checking marine products at different spots, and the government has prohibited fishermen from catching some species found to have elevated radiation levels.
en.news.maktoob.com

@dean Hello