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Evacuees leave the Tokyo hotel due to closure
Evacuees from the March 11th disaster are leaving their temporary quarters in a Tokyo luxury hotel that was slated for demolition.
The Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka which had closed for business at the end of March accommodated more than 300 families from Fukushima Prefecture and other surrounding areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami disaster.
On Thursday, evacuees carried out their baggage and completed procedures to leave the hotel.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 80 percent or more will move to other hotels, and inns, as well as municipal housing and private dwellings rented by municipal governments. Some will return to Fukushima and other areas outside Tokyo.
Akemi Ohno who was evacuated from Fukushima Prefecture said she finds it hard to pay her expenses because she is not working at the moment. She wants to know whether she can eventually return to Fukushima.
Tokyo government official Yoshito Yashima said he wants to continue to keep evacuees informed by coordinating with the local municipalities where the people will be staying.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 15:14 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 6/30/2011 11:32:25 AM
@Edano :( It's always gonna leak. And that's always as in forever.by es 6/30/2011 11:33:20 AM
This is specially for @Elaine when she returns:
Jellyfish force Torness nuclear reactor shutdown
Both reactors at the Torness nuclear power station have been shut down after huge numbers of jellyfish were found in the sea water entering the plant.
The jellyfish were found obstructing cooling water filters on Tuesday.
The East Lothian plant's operator, EDF Energy, said the shutdown was a precautionary measure and there was never any danger to the public.
A clean-up operation is under way, but it is understood it could be next week before Torness is operational again.
www.bbc.co.ukby hudebnik 6/30/2011 11:34:05 AM- @es : FukuLeaksby Edano 6/30/2011 11:34:11 AM
- @Edano Precisely!by es 6/30/2011 11:34:50 AM
- @hudebnik : the power of jellyfish !by Edano 6/30/2011 11:35:04 AM
- Fukushima evacuees given health questionnaires
Local residents who were forced to evacuate their homes because of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been given questionnaires as part of a prefecture-wide health checkup.
The entire population of Fukushima Prefecture -- about 2 million people -- is to be checked for the effects of radiation.
On Thursday, prefectural officials visited an evacuation shelter and handed out questionnaires to 13 residents of Namie town, who are being checked first.
The questionnaires ask them to record the times of day they have spent indoors and outdoors since the nuclear accident.
The responses will be compared with daily radiation levels to estimate the residents' exposure.
A 28-year-old woman said it's been more than 3 months since the disaster, so it's hard for her to recall her whereabouts during all that time. She says she wishes the survey had been conducted sooner.
The prefecture will begin mailing the questionnaires to about 28,000 residents who have been given priority for the check-ups.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:59 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 6/30/2011 11:37:02 AM - @Edano - I wonder if they are any use for stopping leaks??by hudebnik 6/30/2011 11:39:34 AM
- Nagano quake damages cultural assets
A strong earthquake hit a part of Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on Thursday, injuring 12, three of them seriously.
The quake struck at around 8:16 AM. It registered 5-plus on the Japanese seismic scale of zero to 7 in Matsumoto City.
Japan's Meteorological Agency says the quake had a magnitude of 5.4, and that the epicenter was 4 kilometers below ground.
Aftershocks have been recorded in the region and the Meteorological Agency is calling for caution.
The temblor caused cracks to the walls of a small castle tower near the main tower of centuries-old Matsumoto Castle. Both structures are designated national treasures.
The former Kaichi School, which is one of Japan's oldest elementary school buildings and a nationally-designated important property, also sustained cracks to its walls.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 16:11 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 6/30/2011 11:40:53 AM 
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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima mayors
The new president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company has visited municipalities near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and apologized to their leaders.
Toshio Nishizawa had two separate meetings with Iwaki City Mayor Takao Watanabe and Hirono Town Mayor Motohoshi Yamada on Thursday.
Nishizawa apologized to them saying that the company has caused a lot of trouble and worry for people.
He also said that he will do all he can to bring the situation under control as soon as possible.
At the meetings, the municipalities demanded that the company take care of people's concerns over the radioactive contamination as its top priority. They called for active disclosure of information.
They also said the company must compensate not only those who were forced to leave their homes but also those who are facing huge economic losses because of the contamination.
Nishizawa said the company will carry out the compensation process in a fair and quick way with government support.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:59 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 6/30/2011 11:42:12 AM- now kick him !by Edano 6/30/2011 11:42:30 AM
- the power of turtles !
Flights delayed as turtles invade New York airport
A horde of turtles has invaded a runway at New York's Kennedy airport, delaying flights for about 30 minutes.
The incident began on early Wednesday, when a 20-centimeter-long diamondback terrapin turtle popped up in front of an airplane waiting to be cleared for takeoff.
The turtle was caught by airport staff, but more than 150 others turned up during the next 3 hours.
Airport authorities say the turtles were searching for a beach to lay their eggs when they entered the airport, which adjoins a beach.
One runway was closed and dozens of flights were delayed while airport staff and Agriculture Department officials scooped up the turtles from the runway.
A news website posted an audio recording of pilots stifling chuckles and reporting locations of turtles to air traffic controllers.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 16:11 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 6/30/2011 11:44:38 AM - Germany's lower house passes bills to shut all nuclear plants
BERLIN, June 30, Kyodo (20:32) english.kyodonews.jpby Edano edited by Edano 6/30/2011 11:48:04 AM - not sure what they mean with "lower house". in fact, the Bundestag passed the bill, has still to be acknowledged by the Bundesrat afterwards (on july 8).by Edano 6/30/2011 11:53:41 AM
@Edano do you have any ideas about the cesium in the urine of the students? Would that necessarily have come from the plants?by bo 6/30/2011 12:12:49 PM- @bo : definitely yes. cesium has a biological half life of 100 days.by Edano 6/30/2011 12:16:30 PM
@bo Ex-SKF is quoting the lab that did the testing and they claimed it should have been zero and that the levels would have been from the plant.by lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:16:31 PM- @Edano so its biological half life is much shorter than its radioactive half life?by bo 6/30/2011 12:17:22 PM
- Ex-SKF has been really busy. Tons of info in the last day. One is this 100+ page TEPCO document with radiation data that was released yesterday. www.tepco.co.jp
There was mention of finding really short half life tellerium - trying to sort out the exact date they found it.by lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:18:13 PM - @bo : the biological half life is the time span until 50% of an ingested substance is egested again.by Edano edited by Edano 6/30/2011 12:18:33 PM
- June 12 samples had tellerium - WTF? ex-skf.blogspot.comby lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:19:18 PM
- @Edano tyby bo 6/30/2011 12:19:37 PM
- cesium has a bioavailability of 100%, that means all of the inhaled / ingested dose will enter the blood circulation.by Edano edited by Edano 6/30/2011 12:21:24 PM
- @lillymunster Corium-concrete interactions will produce Tellurium: en.wikipedia.orgby es 6/30/2011 12:29:29 PM
@lillymunster According to the CTBTO, the plant has been emitting tellurium-129m all along with a half-life of 33 days. It decays to tellurium-129 which has a very short half-life.by Bobby1 6/30/2011 12:29:58 PM- @lillymunster : it means that tellurium is directly flowing into the sea (half life 70 minutes).by Edano edited by Edano 6/30/2011 12:30:25 PM
- So if a half life 33 days isotope is there either it had a massive amount initially for any to still be showing up or is this evidence of ongoing reaction?by lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:33:03 PM
- either tepco releases rad water purposely, or it goes via corium and groundwater.by Edano 6/30/2011 12:33:32 PM
- Thanks ES, wasn't aware of that.by lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:33:39 PM
good morning to allby dean 6/30/2011 12:35:46 PM- Hi deanby bo 6/30/2011 12:35:58 PM
- @lillymunster I think some of it is new, hard to tell. It's a fission product. Te-129m is worse than I-131 from a health standpoint.by Bobby1 6/30/2011 12:38:17 PM
by M.I.A. via I1207.photobucket 6/30/2011 12:38:29 PM- @Bobby1 It can come from the concrete according to what ES posted. What are the health effects of Te?by lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:39:07 PM
- Tepco said they had sealed all service ducts and tunnels to #5 and #6 (for what that's worth with these Keystone Kops), so whence does the water come?by M.I.A. 6/30/2011 12:45:20 PM
- @lilly.. remember when I said.. TEPCO created a new isotope.. "NOTELLIUM".. there is no 1/2 life with it... just goes on and onby dean 6/30/2011 12:45:23 PM
- @lillymunster It causes lung cancer and leukemia. Here is an EPA document that compares the effects per becquerel of different isotopes, I don't know if this huge URL will work here: nepis.epa.gov^%22402R97014%22&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=pubnumber&IntQFieldOp=1&ExtQFieldOp=1&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C95THRU99%5CTXT%5C00000007%5C00000BZD.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h|-&MaximumDocuments=10&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=p|f&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=35by Bobby1 6/30/2011 12:45:46 PM
- TEPCO to give daily energy reports. In light of all the people in Japan debunking the cooked numbers and actual electricity capacity this ought to be quite the farce:by lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:46:33 PM
- From TEPCO's twitter: News tomorrow (7 / 1), Home (PC, mobile), "Electricity Forecast" will begin. Expected maximum power, peak power supplies, etc. I will guide you through the day of actual power usage, please take advantage of us. Also announced on Twitter. twme.jpby lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:46:56 PM
Isn't biological half-life "the time it takes for the blood plasma concentration of a substance to halve ("plasma half-life") its steady-state"? And not all of the body is blood.by Ian 6/30/2011 12:47:42 PM- I just discovered something really cool. If you view Twitter in Google chrome it will translate all the Japanese posts to English!by lillymunster 6/30/2011 12:52:48 PM
@Ian , you mean clearance.by Peter Melzer 6/30/2011 12:53:19 PM- Two nuclear weapons reactors that have been shut down for over 40 years have been sealed - Savannah River Site: www.srs.govby Diane_NJ 6/30/2011 12:56:14 PM
- @dean , gm, that is one of the peculiarities of radioactive decay. The isotopes with infinite half life are the STABLE ones. There is a whole science in predicting the stability of atomic nuclei.by Peter Melzer 6/30/2011 12:56:30 PM
- @you , I still like Unobtainium!by Peter Melzer 6/30/2011 12:57:17 PM
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