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Radioactive materials found off Miyagi and Ibaraki
Japan's science ministry has detected extraordinarily high levels of radioactive cesium in seafloor samples collected off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures.
Experts say monitoring should be stepped up over a larger area to determine how fish and shell fish are being affected.
The ministry collected samples from 12 locations along a 300-kilometer stretch off Fukushima prefecture's Pacific coast between May 9th and 14th. It hoped to get an idea about the spread of nuclear contamination caused by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Radioactive substances were found in all locations, including those off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures, which had not been previously investigated.
Radioactive cesium 134, measuring 110 becquerels per kilogram or about 100 times the normal level, was found in samples collected from the seabed 30 kilometers off Sendai City and 45 meters beneath the surface.
Samples collected from the seabed 10 kilometers off Mito City and 49 meters beneath the surface measured 50 becquerels or about 50 times the normal level.
Professor Takashi Ishimaru of the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology says plankton most probably absorbed the radioactive substances carried by the current near the sea surface, and then sank to the seabed.
He said monitoring must be stepped up over a larger area, as radioactive materials in the seabed do not dissolve quickly, and can accumulate in the bodies of larger fish that eat shrimp and crabs that live on the seafloor.
Saturday, May 28, 2011 22:21 +0900 (JST)
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@hudebnik dam them for the ocean

@Elaine no worries! Hi btw!:-) @dean hi! How have you been? and yes futile shining....will no doubt be off to a contamination graveyard somewhere most likely! @Deb I agree and on that post by @Hudebnik does that actually come as a surprise to anyone? I would have thought the readings would have been higher!

@dean good to hear! I have been ok, ty! But I am nearing my wits end with TEPCO and the reporting of this situation!

Remember this ??? FOIA Request Shows EPA Prepares To Dramatically Increase Permissible Radioactive Releases In Drinking Water, Food And Soil After ‘Radiological Incidents’
Posted On Apr 01 The EPA is preparing to dramatically increase permissible radioactive releases in drinking water, food and soil after “radiological incidents,” according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. What is termed a guidance that EPA is considering – as opposed to a regulation – does not require public airing before it’s decided upon.

EPA officials contacted today in the Atlanta and D.C. offices had no response on the issue as of 6 p.m.

The radiation guides called Protective Action Guides or PAGs are protocols for responding to radiological events ranging from nuclear power-plant accidents to dirty bombs.

Drinking water, for example, would have a huge increase in allowable public exposure to radioactivity, the group says, that would include:

A nearly 1000-fold increase in strontium-90

A 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for iodine-131

An almost 25,000 rise for nickel-63

The new radiation guidance would also allow long-term cleanup standards thousands of times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted, permitting doses to the public that EPA itself estimates would cause a cancer in as much as every fourth person exposed, the group says.

These relaxed standards are opposed by public health professionals inside EPA, according to documents PEER said it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

PEER is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals

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THE PEOPLE'S NEWS NETWORK Bringing You The Latest Fukushima Daiichi Updates US Gov. Requested Dumping of Japan’s Radioactive Water MAY 18 Posted by leakspinner
Tokyo, May 18 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese special cabinet adviser has said in public that low-level radioactive water was dumped into the sea from the crippled nuclear power plant at the request of the U.S. government, informed sources said Wednesday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. began the dumping of low-level radioactive water from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant on April 4 in order to secure space to store highly radioactive liquid found at the plant. The Japanese government failed to issue prior notices on the action to the international community properly, drawing criticism from neighbouring nations such as South Korea and Russia. The video below was broadcast on 05.04.11 leakspinner.wordpress.com

@Tenzing Going back to the cave days to protect us from the waste of the nuclear industry. If it wasn't so sad it would be laughable.

Perhaps Tepco need the Cat in the Hat ...'The crisis involves a pink bathtub ring and other pink residue left by the Cat after he snacks on a cake in the bathtub with the water running. Preliminary attempts to clean it up fail as they only transfer the mess elsewhere, including a dress, the wall, a pair of ten dollar shoes, a rug, the bed, and then eventually outside. A "spot killing" war then takes place between the mess and Little Cats A through V, who use an arsenal of primitive weapons including pop guns, bats, and a lawnmower. Unfortunately, the initial battle to rid the mess only makes it into an entire yard-covering spot. Little Cats V, W, X, and Y then take off their hats to uncover microscopic Little Cat Z. Z takes his hat off and unleashes a "Voom" which cleans up the back yard and puts all of the other Little Cats back into the big Cat in the Hat's hat.' . source: wikipedia

@UKVal I always thought the ending was a cop out in that book ...

@UKVal I don't really remember the plots of the other books but the pink stuff that got away and couldn't be contained was an interesting concept.

@UKVal Maybe that's why Kurosawa made the radioactive fog pink in his movie

Australian advice on exposure to radiation arising from the nuclear accident in Japan www.arpansa.gov.au

Residents mourn loved ones on brief return to homes near Fukushima plant


Residents wearing protective clothing and holding items they recovered from their homes walk back to a bus in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 26. (Mainichi)
NAMIE, Fukushima -- Residents of areas located in the 20 kilometer no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant were taken to their homes to retrieve items and mourn lost loved ones on May 26. mdn.mainichi.jp

New role for robots in Japan
Japan has long been a leader in developing industrial and therapeutic robots, with Sony's AIBO dog first sold in 1999 and the therapeutic robot seal Paro in use in hospitals and nursing homes in Japan and abroad.
More recently a robotic "power-assist" suit is being developed for Japan's elderly farmers, to aid in the physical labor involved in tending and harvesting their crops.
Why then did Tokyo Electric Power Co. turn to American Talon and PackBot robots to first go into high radiation areas of its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant? search.japantimes.co.jp

@radioguy lol I was just sitting here doing that trying to see the diff.