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Japan launches PR drive for nuclear power www.telegraph.co.uk

"The new campaign is targeting local government leaders who are currently blocking nuclear power generation in their communities following the atomic crisis in Fukushima."
by bo 6/27/2011 3:09:42 PM

@Bo @ Edano seriously lol
by Panserbjorne9 6/27/2011 3:13:35 PM

@bo : the atomic industry is the cancer of the earth.
by Edano 6/27/2011 3:14:32 PM

@Edano and it's feeling a bit hungry again. Hmmm.....
by bo 6/27/2011 3:15:03 PM

Ah, yes, that should do, for a bit...
www.google.com
by bo 6/27/2011 3:16:24 PM

we should dedicate a website just to our grim humor.
by Edano 6/27/2011 3:17:42 PM

I say let's do it!
by bo 6/27/2011 3:19:49 PM

Return our dogs, TEPCO demands
A MAN who snatched two dogs to safety from the grounds of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has revealed the plant's disgraced operator TEPCO later rang him to assert ownership over them. www.theaustralian.com.au
by Panserbjorne9 6/27/2011 3:19:52 PM

Obama administration with new push for plutonium-238 production www.spacepolitics.com
by Bobby1 6/27/2011 3:21:40 PM

@Panserbjorne9 it's like TEPCO is trying to be Mr. Burns
by bo 6/27/2011 3:25:01 PM

The SNAP-9A accident in 1964 dispersed 2.1 pounds of plutonium-238 over the earth www.21stcenturyradio.com One-tenth of a microgram of this stuff gives 100% chance of death by lung cancer.
by Bobby1 6/27/2011 3:26:47 PM

SimplyInfo1 Simply-Info
Wildfire forces evacuation at government lab "Nuclear Weapons Lab??" ping.fm
39 minutes ago
by Veenie 6/27/2011 3:58:01 PM

@Edano @Bo Did the TEPCO officials in that meeting then seize the narrative completely by drinking the water?
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 4:35:06 PM

@Edano Prehaps you should "dedicate a website just to {Y}our grim humor". Please make it a different website. ""Key water circulation cooling system for troubled reactors hits snag LOL"". Is that funny? ""huhuuu"" "TEPCO halts water circulation due to leaks" Or is that Funny?
by RBeaner 6/27/2011 4:36:10 PM

Another excellent bit from that truthout article:
"Despite its meager eight-day half-life, iodine 121 somehow became the rock star of radiation reporting... Cesium levels are usually reported second, if at all, even though they pose far greater risks for children, farm communities and the public at large.

Spawned profusely in fission reactions, cesium 137 decays slowly, bioaccumulates rapidly, spews intense gamma rays and hitchhikes easily in water, air and food. Imbibed, inhaled or eaten, even a few atoms can stir up mutagenic havoc in the organs where they land. The US National Academy of Sciences apparently had cesium in mind when it announced in 2005 that the only safe radiation level for young people is absolutely none at all."
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 4:40:36 PM

@RadioGuy : that's why the urine detection is so dangerous and i don't understand why they do not evacuate properly.
by Edano 6/27/2011 4:42:27 PM

@Edano There are SO many deeply disturbing questions lurking in that article.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 4:44:01 PM

@RadioGuy : i mean, you cannot tell a citizen: "hey, you have cesium in your urine, better move away. buy new land, construct a new house and begin a new life with your family." this is cinical. it is the darn fault of the government that the people pee radioactivity now.
by Edano 6/27/2011 4:49:54 PM

@Edano Even that urine detection is really odd. Referring back to that test that found 4.9-14.9 mSv/hr in all 15 Fukushima urine tests, there was a response questioning the numbers because of I-131's 8 day half life. Did that test specifically break it out as radiodine? Because if it did, it indicates either new fission, or that that 14.9 level is decayed down over 2 months from 3814.4uSv/hr.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 4:50:36 PM

WHich is obviously unrealistic ;)
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 4:51:12 PM

Or, of course, that it's other stuff with nastier half-lives and as you say, they intentionally fail to break it down because they are still clinging to the myth that people will someday in our lifetimes move back into those areas.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 4:53:08 PM

cesium has a biological half life of 110 days, which means 50% of the ingested mass is egested in 110 days.
by Edano edited by Edano 6/27/2011 5:03:19 PM

Japanese parents fume over Fukushima radiation
Angry parents of children in Japan's Fukushima city marched along with hundreds of people on Sunday to demand protection for their children from radiation more than three months after a massive quake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. www.reuters.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/27/2011 5:06:28 PM

the oral bioavailability of cesium is nearly 100%, which means all of the inhaled/ingested cesium will enter the blood circulation without being egested in feces immediately. these are the pharmakokinetics.
by Edano edited by Edano 6/27/2011 5:06:59 PM

Pinnacle Oncology LLC Acquires Rights to Unique Radioprotector From the University of Chicago
Pinnacle Oncology LLC, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Biologics Inc. announced a wide ranging agreement with the University of Chicago for the acquisition of its technology and intellectual property rights for the development of a compound, amifostine, to prevent genomic instability caused by a variety of sources of ionizing radiation exposure including common Computer Tomography (CT) scans.

Amifostine was initially developed by the United States Army to protect military personnel from the toxic effects of radiation exposure in the event of a nuclear war. Animal studies revealed that amifostine is very effective in protecting against genomic instability and associated long term genomic damages resulting from radiation exposure, such as from CT scans and other diagnostic radiology and radiation oncology procedures that lead to DNA damages, chromosomal aberrations and gene mutations, all of which are associated with the cancer development processes.
More: www.prnewswire.com
by joniver 6/27/2011 5:10:58 PM

Keeping a good water flow through your body can help that turnaround time, which is really the only blessing of being so readily soluble, but that bioavailability means that unless you are already saturated with potassium (virtually impossible to maintain because of its solubility and ionic reactivity) it will enter and chemically interact inside cells for long enough to do damage. Whether it lands where that damage is potentially lethal over time is a crap shoot.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 5:15:08 PM

@joniver I guess they saw the writing on the wall, eh?
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 5:15:48 PM

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Fukushima starts health checks search.japantimes.co.jp
by Panserbjorne9 6/27/2011 5:18:05 PM

Beyond Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone, shuttered shops speak to radiation doubts
www.csmonitor.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/27/2011 5:19:15 PM

"Experiments with dogs showed that a single dose of 3800 μCi (4.1 μg of caesium-137) per kilogram is lethal within three weeks; smaller amounts may cause infertility and cancer." en.wikipedia.org
by Edano 6/27/2011 5:19:32 PM

The patent sharks are on top of it, once again gobbling up life-saving remedies that should be in the public domain by their very nature. They're lining up three deep to lie their pockets by extorting ridiculous sums from otherwise terminal patients.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 5:20:00 PM

@RadioGuy Yeah and business will boom.
by joniver 6/27/2011 5:21:20 PM

They'd have tried to patent potassium iodide if they could.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 5:21:43 PM

But patenting Prussian Blue? Are you kidding me? So, if someone set up a simple chem lab to take the $3000/ton raw ingredients and started doing the simple extraction and purification process for their community, would XE or someone come after them?
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 5:25:11 PM

@RadioGuy The FDA might be on their backs.
by joniver 6/27/2011 5:27:31 PM

Environment Ministry to approve incineration of rubble contaminated with radiation

The Environment Ministry has decided to approve the proposed incineration of rubble contaminated with radiation from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant at existing incineration facilities equipped with exhaust gas filters and absorption devices, officials said.

It made the decision after discussing how to safely dispose of rubble contaminated with radiation from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

The policy is based on the assumption that residents near disposal sites will be exposed to less than 10 microsieverts of radiation a year.

The ministry will allow local governments to bury burned rubble containing less than 8,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram of rubble at waterproof final disposal sites for ordinary waste. However, the ministry will ban such disposal sites from being converted to residential areas in the future.

Authorities will also require local bodies to temporarily store ash caught by exhaust gas filters and ash from burned rubble containing more than 8,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium in special drums that can block radiation and ash containing over 100,000 becquerels of radiation at facilities shielded by concrete walls.
More: mdn.mainichi.jp
by joniver 6/27/2011 5:27:50 PM

I assume Prussian Blue dye could not be made a restricted substance.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 5:36:35 PM

@RadioGuy no, it cannot.
by Edano 6/27/2011 5:37:26 PM

i.huffpost.com
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant: Flood Seeps Into Turbine Building At Nebraska Nuke Station - www.huffingtonpost.com

OMAHA -- Missouri River floodwater seeped into the turbine building at a nuclear power plant near Omaha on Monday, but plant officials said the seepage was expected and posed no safety risk because the building contains no nuclear material.

An 8-foot-tall, water-filled temporary berm protecting the plant collapsed early Sunday.

Reportedly punctured by plant workers.
by RadioGuy via I.huffpost 6/27/2011 5:40:14 PM

They are, however, definitely now on backup generators because of that flooding.
by RadioGuy 6/27/2011 5:41:42 PM

"The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai, a famous artwork which makes extensive use of Prussian blue.

Interesting parallel...
by joniver via I1235.photobucket 6/27/2011 5:45:40 PM