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@Olivier Thank you for keeping us up to date with the Le Monde coverage.
by Reed 5/27/2011 10:12:09 PM

A letter from a mother in Fukushima is making the rounds. docs.google.com But looking for a primary-source link, all the leads I've found end up at faceless internet post www.zerohedge.com . The post attributes the letter's translation to New York Times reporter HIROKO TABUCHI, who did in fact write this article on Fukushima parents www.nytimes.com But there's noting in it about a letter or even it's cited author. I can't find a sidebar link to a letter. Does anyone know of a confirmation of this letter?
by Ian edited by elainekirk 5/27/2011 10:38:42 PM

@dean thought you might find this site of interest www.csb.gov look at the article about the explosion today. We get a lot of our training vedios from here
by fitter 5/27/2011 10:40:48 PM

@dean got your post thanks, my other computor has locked up again
by fitter 5/27/2011 10:41:18 PM

the letter is genuine Ian you can ask Steve Herman on twitter twitter.com!/W7VOA (copy paste link for it to work) he will tell you more
by elainekirk 5/27/2011 10:41:46 PM

@dean check out the chubu links I posted below see if you can spot it ;)
by elainekirk 5/27/2011 10:44:45 PM

@elainekirk, thanks! I see it's legit now. Seems that its coming out, and via a NY Times reporter, in every route except NY Times ink!
by Ian 5/27/2011 10:50:49 PM

going to try this twitter button
Letter from a Fukushima Mother tinyurl.com
by elainekirk 5/27/2011 11:02:59 PM

Cool sourced info page. Radiation levels japanstatus.org
by Panserbjorne9 5/27/2011 11:27:32 PM

If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits: Japan senior politician — “The government doesn’t tell the truth”
enenews.com
by Panserbjorne9 5/27/2011 11:30:15 PM

I might have got this from here, but don't see it and in case not, a study just published on Fukushima wildlife, here's a report in it www.nature.com and it : pubs.acs.org
by Ian 5/27/2011 11:33:15 PM

Someone animated the tsunami at Fuku. www.imagup.com
by Panserbjorne9 5/27/2011 11:36:24 PM

@Panserbjorne9 don't know if you were here when I posted this morning. I had someone forward me an email from someone in Tokyo claiming their water supplies are all at risk. Supposedly a couple of treatment plants are still offline. Tokyo supposedly gets much of their water in Gunma. If you see anything that might corroborate this please let me know.
by Nancy 5/27/2011 11:36:51 PM

Panserbjorne9.. the one thing interesting about that animation was the building in the background down were the water intakes would be.. totally submerged..
by dean 5/27/2011 11:39:24 PM

@Nancy Tokyo water supply information... www.waterprofessionals.metro.tokyo.jp
by Reed 5/27/2011 11:48:12 PM

www.city.kawasaki.jp

Waterworks reading for Kawasaki City right within Metro Tokyo indicating "not significant" levels of radioactive Iodine and Cesium
by alblee 5/28/2011 12:04:46 AM

Illustration for the post below on water readings for Kawasaki, Metro Tokyo
by alblee 5/28/2011 12:05:46 AM

@Nancy I've sent you a FB friend request and a message with half a dozen links for you; some esoteric stuff but you may be able to glean from it what you need. Will keep looking, too.
by Panserbjorne9 5/28/2011 12:07:38 AM

Hi, @elainekirk. Close to bedtime for you... I'm in and out my morning here.
Yes tis getting late will be venturing into the land of nod shortly
by ALBLEE edited by elainekirk 5/28/2011 12:09:22 AM

Data on the Radiation Level at Water Purification Plants of Tokyo Waterworks - Kanamachi, Asaka, Ozaku and Higashi-muratame Purification Plants (27 May, 2011): www.waterworks.metro.tokyo.jp
by es 5/28/2011 12:11:23 AM

Is it just me but does anyone else find it slightly ridiculous that we're detecting iodine and cesium all over the US and Tokyo's readings are ND?
by LM 5/28/2011 12:15:19 AM

@LM I'm wondering when they'll announce that their monitoring equipment may be faulty...
by es 5/28/2011 12:19:48 AM

@es Or perhaps they've raised the limit to something ridiculous without the people even knowing...worth a little investigation.
by LM 5/28/2011 12:21:09 AM

There were high readings of various things on Osaka. There has to be elevated levels of some kind in Tokyo
by Nancy 5/28/2011 12:25:36 AM

@Nancy "This past Friday, a water sanitation facility in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture detected radioactive Cesium at levels of 41,000 Bq/kg coming from incinerator ash that the water facility had collected earlier that week. Monitoring is ongoing." powerandcontrol.blogspot.com
by Panserbjorne9 5/28/2011 12:26:45 AM

@Nancy I agree. It's preposterous. I'm going to do some digging and see if they raised allowable limits because of the 'emergency'.
by LM 5/28/2011 12:27:59 AM

@LM, the authorities label these readings as non-significant. Perhaps they should have counted longer, because the standard error equals the square root of the counts. You want to get that error to be at least under five percent.
by Peter Melzer 5/28/2011 12:30:48 AM

Gunma Prefecture tap water sampling translate.google.com They say the same thing.
by Bobby1 5/28/2011 12:33:32 AM

@Peter They definitely should. Do we know who is doing the testing? Are they GoJ lackies? The tests should be done independently for sure.
by LM 5/28/2011 12:34:11 AM

In the town of Maebashi, 2.5 becquerels of iodine and 0.38 becquerel of cesium were seen Friday per kilogram of water, local authorities said. It was the first detection of the substances in the 20 years tap water has been tested.
www.democraticunderground.com
by Panserbjorne9 5/28/2011 12:34:19 AM

I've spent the past few days looking at the data from the prefectures, and there are all kinds of inconsistencies. Hard to make head or tail. Ibaraki is the worst, half of it is Fukushima-level bad, the other half you wouldn't know there a NPP blew up nearby.
by Bobby1 5/28/2011 12:38:01 AM

@LM, I have not a clue what procedures the authorities in Tokyo follow. But if you look at epa results, they will commonly show +/- 5% or less. I do agree on the independent tests.
by Peter Melzer 5/28/2011 12:38:54 AM