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Nagasaki staffers exposed to Fukushima radiation

Nagasaki University Hospital says that at least 40 percent of local people sent to Fukushima Prefecture, host to the crippled nuclear plant, suffered internal radiation exposure.

The hospital checked staffers and medical experts sent to Fukushima by Nagasaki's prefectural government. They spent around a week helping local government offices and medical institutions in Fukushima after the nuclear plant accident in March.

The hospital says radioactive iodine was detected in the bodies of 34, or about 40 percent, of 87 examinees. Some were also detected for radioactive cesium. Neither substance occurs naturally in human bodies.

Officials at the hospital insist, however, that the level of radioactive contamination is very low and poses no health concerns.

Nagasaki University Professor Naoki Matsuda, who joined the survey, says Fukushima residents should also be checked for levels of internal exposure.

The survey results will be reported at a conference in Hiroshima City on Sunday.

Thursday, June 02, 2011 21:20 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/2/2011 6:55:06 PM

What, not "no immediate health concerns?" It must be a mistranslation.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 6:57:38 PM

this may be 2 months too late, but whatever....

Fukushima to check internal radiation exposure

Fukushima Prefecture has decided to check the internal radiation exposure of residents near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and adjacent areas with high radiation levels.

In Fukushima, there are mounting concerns among locals over the health effects of radiation after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The prefecture had already decided to conduct health checks on all citizens, but will now assess residents' internal exposure to radiation from breathing and eating.

The targets will be residents near the plant and people who live in adjacent areas with high radiation levels.

A device called a "whole-body counter" will be used to precisely measure radiation.

But the prefecture currently has only one device and can screen just 10 people per day. It is urging research institutes and others with the device outside the prefecture to help them.

Fukushima is also studying whether it can fetch 2 devices from Okuma Town, which lies inside the no-go zone.

Thursday, June 02, 2011 16:28 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/2/2011 6:57:54 PM

two months later they still have only one "whole-body counter" for the entire prefecture.
by Edano 6/2/2011 6:59:34 PM

what the hell have they done during the 2 months ? playing with their balls ?
by Edano 6/2/2011 7:00:49 PM

US nuke authority tries to calm public concerns

The US nuclear regulatory authority is trying to calm public concerns about the safety of a nuclear power plant after a tornado shut it down.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission briefed residents near the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in the southern state of Alabama, on Tuesday.

A tornado in the area cut off external electric power and forced the plant to shut down. Alabama is prone to the storms, which killed more than 200 people in April.

The residents said they are worried that a direct hit to the plant reactors, the same type as Japan's Fukushima Daiichi, may cause a disaster.

The commission said the emergency shutdown was safely performed and that the power company will be supervised for further safety measures.

It said the plant is designed to withstand a direct hit from tornados.

Commission officials say many people in the United States are increasingly concerned about the safety of nuclear power after the accident in Japan.

They say they will continue trying to assure people that the country's nuclear plants are safe.

Thursday, June 02, 2011 06:39 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/2/2011 7:02:59 PM

"They say they will continue trying to assure people that the country's nuclear plants are safe." honest words, eh ?
by Edano 6/2/2011 7:04:06 PM

True statement. I bet they will.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 7:05:12 PM

berlusconi, europe's shame ....

Italy to hold referendum on nuclear energy policy

Italy will hold a referendum on June 12th and 13th, to decide whether or not the country should accept nuclear power.

On Wednesday, Italy's top court ruled that the country's citizens can vote in the referendum as scheduled.

Italy decided to abandon nuclear power, following the Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union in 1986.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had pledged to revive nuclear power in order to reduce dependence on foreign oil and natural gas. Opposition forces called for a national referendum on the issue.

However, in the wake of the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Berlusconi froze his initial plan, apparently to avoid holding the referendum in view of growing anti-nuclear public sentiment.

The court ruling went against the Prime Minister's wishes. The referendum is expected to influence the nuclear energy policies of other European nations as well.

Thursday, June 02, 2011 05:51 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/2/2011 7:06:58 PM

IAEA wants latest information on nuclear accident [me,too]

The International Atomic Energy Agency has called on Japan to report the latest, most detailed information on the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The IAEA explained to its member nations the current status of the accident at a meeting at its headquarters in Vienna on Thursday. The agency plans to hold an international, ministerial-level meeting to discuss the accident later this month.

Deputy Director General Denis Flory told reporters after the meeting that the agency has so far received adequate information on the accident from Japan.

He added that Japan should report the latest information, including the status of the nuclear reactors and why highly contaminated water leaked into the sea, at the coming meeting.

Flory also said countries must follow common safety standards to rebuild confidence in nuclear energy and that the IAEA standards should be their basis.

Friday, June 03, 2011 01:25 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/2/2011 7:08:16 PM

@Edano Man, don't we all.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 7:09:01 PM

I feel a one-page report coming on.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 7:09:23 PM

Michio Ishikawa: "Astronomical" 10 million curies of radioactivity in cooling water translate.google.com
by Bobby1 6/2/2011 7:10:40 PM

Just popping in to say hello - very appreciate that you are all keeping up with the work. Clearly things are still concerning. Take care, all!
by kaykodh 6/2/2011 7:56:36 PM

@kaykodh how are you? wow it is really good to see you
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 7:58:41 PM

@elainekirk : i checked the data sheets. there is no data missing, but tepco now uses a wrong data format. does not matter, i can adjust it.
by Edano 6/2/2011 8:12:26 PM

@edano thank goodness does it look better than that this morning did?
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 8:18:55 PM

@elainekirk : yes, just additional work. from now on i will archive the data every day.
by Edano 6/2/2011 8:21:12 PM

@edano they sure find some crazy things to waste their time on at tepco
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 8:22:35 PM

@elainekirk : in fact, i think they just wanted to add the year to the date and accidentally ruined the sheets. but it is interesting that they find it suddenly necessary to have the year in the data. maybe they just realized that they will need to extend data recording to more than just this year. or the iaea made them do that.
by Edano 6/2/2011 8:26:36 PM

old date was 6/2 11:00 now is 2011/6/2 11:00
by Edano 6/2/2011 8:27:46 PM

@edano the unit 4 drain !! www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 8:28:15 PM

@elainekirk : what do you mean ?
by Edano 6/2/2011 8:30:06 PM

@edano how was your day with the children?
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 8:48:12 PM

@Edano The CSVs I draw my googlesheet data from have always had years on the date. Maybe they just decided to make them match?
by radioguy 6/2/2011 8:52:24 PM

@radioguy possible ...
by Edano 6/2/2011 9:05:34 PM

@elainekirk : my children are my life.
Oh yes mine too they are the reason and my grandsons
by Edano edited by elainekirk 6/2/2011 9:06:31 PM

This NUREG study with the title "Safety Evaluation Report Mark I Containment, Long-Term Program, Resolution of Generic Technical Activity, A-7" (NUREG-0661) www.google.com explains the sequence of events in the primary containment of Mark I type in a Loss of Cooling Accident and discusses some pitfalls and remedies. It explains chugging, swelling, and frothing in detail.
by Peter Melzer 6/2/2011 9:07:18 PM

@Peter Melzer do you have a minute to meet me on the other board, i have a ? for you about mushrooms and radioactive isotopes.
by Tenzing 6/2/2011 9:08:30 PM

@all This site that Bobby1 referenced in a post down the page is doing some good analysis of the statistical mishmash that is being used to hide this event. With Fukushima their biggest cloud word I assume there's more. The BRAWN analysis is interesting as well, so I'll link you in there.
pissinontheroses.blogspot.com
by radioguy 6/2/2011 9:11:25 PM

4.bp.blogspot.com
I'll drop this image in here so the thumbnail is in Scribble.
by radioguy via 4.bp.blogspot 6/2/2011 9:18:46 PM

That is great they would make good tweets too I could see people running with them, will simplyinfo be tweeting what gets picked up by the site? ty @radioguy @bobbly1
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 9:21:03 PM

Also, there was a Bloomberg article linked earlier about water overflowing the trenches, which also held this tidbit: "Tepco shares fell 4 percent to 287 yen at 11 a.m. in Tokyo, the lowest since at least September 1974. The stock has fallen 87 percent since March 10, the day before an earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and cooling at Fukushima, wiping out 3 trillion yen ($37 billion) of the company’s market value."
by radioguy 6/2/2011 9:21:38 PM

Sounds like they need a GoJ bailout.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 9:22:50 PM

@Tenzing , I am on the other board now, :)
by Peter Melzer 6/2/2011 9:23:03 PM

@radioguy that is so wrong morally really because tepco is essentially a group of companies e'g; nhk could be hived off etc and they are not devalued so only on paper are tepco yuk -people will simply invest in their other interests which means essentially that they will still be investing in tepco in the grand scheme of things tepcoo will not be compromised by their negligence in the long term, their victims however may never recover
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 9:26:07 PM

apologies for the initial wording I wasnt rubbishing anything/body except tepco
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 9:27:33 PM

@elainekirk I am still trying to tweak this thing.takes hours to see what get's filtered..i had to delete numerous "personal posts from Twitter now about "children" you and edano for example...I just put a filter in, to only capture post's with links.....let's see if that works, won't know for another cple hours.....i got to streams capturing right now to see wich one works right.
by Veenie 6/2/2011 9:30:13 PM

So let's see how it works. Here comes another linked article.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 9:32:23 PM

This deserves repeating: "When a fact-finding mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency landed in the tsunami-battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex last Friday, they thought they knew about the situation there. What they discovered was devastation beyond their imagination.

“All of us, when we stood there and looked across at the plant, the pictures do not give justice to the utter devastation that we saw there,”
blogs.wsj.com
by radioguy 6/2/2011 9:33:08 PM

@veenie you are a champion thank you for all your work
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 9:35:37 PM

@radioguy I do believe, the correct way would be to ALWAYS have the link first. The problem here with Scribble is that they automatically trunk the link.....oh well, let's wait and see
by Veenie 6/2/2011 9:35:59 PM

@elainekirk It's all trial and error darlin )
by Veenie 6/2/2011 9:37:01 PM

@radioguy I would love to know if they intend to do anything! I noted yesterday that they hadnt signed up to any agreements but I think they are signed up to the international waters one which covers pollution
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 9:37:24 PM