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Components of the jury-rigged Geiger counters.
They did so by crafting their own Geiger counters and handing them out to volunteers in the disaster area to measure the fallout. Months later, they have assembled thousands of radiation readings plotted on maps that they hope will one day be an invaluable resource for researchers studying the impact of the meltdown at the crippled nuclear complex.
More: worldblog.msnbc.msn.comby joniver via I1235.photobucket 7/12/2011 6:05:16 PM- Birds may show Japan nuclear disaster's global effects
Lessons from Chernobyl could help define the effect of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on global bird populations, according to a Savannah River Ecology Lab scientist.
Radiation from Chernobyl was found in many parts of the world in birds that traveled through the site's exclusion zone, he said, and birds flying along Japan's coastline could be similarly affected.
More: chronicle.augusta.comby joniver 7/12/2011 6:06:33 PM - Sunflowers are cheerful and pretty, and apparently take up radioactive substances from the soil....BUT....how are they going to prevent pollinating insects from drinking the nectar and birds from eating the contaminated seeds?by joniver 7/12/2011 6:13:47 PM
@joniver exactly the whole food cycle has to be considered after all sunflowers dont actually change the cesium do they so it still existsby elainekirk 7/12/2011 6:17:33 PM- lots of tweeting re Japan happening maybe the world is waking upby elainekirk 7/12/2011 6:34:17 PM
- @elainekirk As I understand it, the roots take up cesium into the plant which leaves all of the plant contaminated. The only way I can see to prevent insects and birds from eating radiated food is to bag all the flowerheads. Unless they intend to destroy the plant before it flowers.by joniver 7/12/2011 6:37:20 PM
- @elainekirk That's good news!by joniver 7/12/2011 6:38:08 PM
- @joniver so they have multiple mountains of contaminated sludge and ash in many prefectures and the will then have multiple .... I know it gathers it up so they have it all in one place but all these piles of contaminated stuff are going to leech into groundwater surely?by elainekirk 7/12/2011 6:40:34 PM
- @elainekirk I would put money on it being in groundwater already.by joniver 7/12/2011 6:44:02 PM
Form the EPA people: "Since Iodine 131 has a very short half-life of approximately eight days, the levels seen in rainwater were expected to be relatively short in duration." They forget that is there is IODINE 131 in the drink water there are probably many other things that have a bit of longer life....... today.msnbc.msn.comby Majj 7/12/2011 6:44:47 PM- Radioactive ash found in waste plants near Tokyo
Japanese waste incineration plants near Tokyo have found high levels of radiation in ash, and officials said Tuesday it may be from garden waste contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The radioactive caesium was detected in plants in Kashiwa city in Chiba prefecture, northeast of Tokyo and about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the plant that has leaked radiation since the March 11 quake and tsunami.
Officials stressed that the radioactive ash collected in late June and early July, at concentrations of up to 70,800 becquerels per kilogramme, was safely contained within the plant and posed no health risk to the community.
More: www.google.comby joniver 7/12/2011 6:45:21 PM - Garden waste?by joniver 7/12/2011 6:46:19 PM
- @joniver Every one cut the grass on his on garden and then threw the cut grass in the domestic rubbish. This apply for all the falling lives also.by Majj 7/12/2011 6:49:33 PM
- @joniver @Majj I think they are totally forgetting the groundwater factor when they pile it up in yards.
Majj you are quite right this is just stupid of course there will be other stuff in itby elainekirk 7/12/2011 6:50:48 PM - No problem ;-(((((( "was safely contained within the plant and posed no health risk to the community."by Majj 7/12/2011 6:50:48 PM
- That's an awful lot of cut grass, somehow my BS detector isn't buying it.by joniver 7/12/2011 6:53:59 PM
- Widening scandal at Japan's Kyushu nuclear firm
A whistleblower last week revealed that some 50 workers had sent e-mails to a televised debate backing a plan to restart Kyushu's Genkai plant.
But the firm's internal inquiry has found more than 100 employees may have been involved.
More: www.bbc.co.uk
Tepco's cheesy little PR stunt is getting bigger and stinkier.by joniver 7/12/2011 6:56:04 PM - @joniver it is all getting stinkier thats for sureby elainekirk 7/12/2011 6:57:06 PM
- Govt to survey cesium absorption / Study will seek to determine how much cesium cows take in through feed.The farm ministry plans to study how much radioactive cesium contained in grass is absorbed by domestically raised beef cattle and milk cows, ministry sources said.
The numerical value to be determined through the planned survey, known as the transfer factor, will help determine whether radioactive cesium in cow milk and beef exceeds the ministry-set limit.
The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry will conduct the survey in response to widespread concerns about radiation contamination caused by the series of accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Since the nuclear crisis was triggered by the March 11 disaster, high levels of radioactive matter exceeding the government-set limit have been detected in grass in the Tohoku and Kanto regions, fueling worries about the safety of milk and beef.
The government established the current limits based on transfer factor data released by the International Atomic Energy Agency. However, as cows differ in terms of species and the amount of feed they eat, the ministry decided to collect transfer factor data on domestic cattle, the sources said. www.yomiuri.co.jpby Majj 7/12/2011 7:07:40 PM - cattle are all different the best the could do would be an average meaning 50% would be higher than the figure 50% is not an acceptable riskby elainekirk 7/12/2011 7:13:27 PM
- Tepco bulldozed hill that could have prevented Fukushima disaster: Katsumi Naganuma, 70, a former worker at Tokyo Electric Power Co., feels particular guilt because he knows that a 35-meter-high, tsunami-safe, bluff overlooking the sea was shaved down to build the Fukushima plant closer to sea level more than 40 years ago.
Tepco, assuming tsunami 3.1 meters or higher would never hit the coast, cut down the bluff by some 25 meters and erected the plant on artificially prepared ground only 10 meters above sea level.
"When I see the situation now, I feel it was wrong to clear that much of the hill away," said Naganuma, who worked at Tepco's local office preparing for the construction in the late 1960s. search.japantimes.co.jpby Majj 7/12/2011 7:16:47 PM - I fell that in all this articles we see daily , they are hammering the idea that the tsunami did the trouble. They are assuming that they was not prepare for the tsunami and bla bla bla ... . But we NOW that the earthquake have be enough for start the disaster . They are brain washing the media and the population. But the true will come out any way. Sooner than later I hope .by Majj 7/12/2011 7:26:12 PM
- @Majj I hope so too the US wont like the quake being blamed because that proves theirs are vulnerable tooby elainekirk 7/12/2011 7:33:22 PM
- @elainekirk this is a very interest point. thanks. I
n this game any thing is better than True :-(by Majj 7/12/2011 7:39:36 PM 
back for a bit...by dean 7/12/2011 7:42:03 PM- @dean hi deanby elainekirk 7/12/2011 7:44:47 PM
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#Radioactive meet: #Hokkaido said one cow's worth of meat was consumed in a restaurant in Chitose. #Fukushima search.japantimes.co.jp #Tepcoby elainekirk 7/12/2011 7:53:46 PM - During April, the people in Seattle could have just as easily been in Tokyo for the amount of hot particles that were there.
Of course, radiation monitoring in Seattle may be kept secret. As that Washington Department of Health notes:
A helicopter flying over some urban areas of King and Pierce counties will gather radiological readings July 11-28, 2011. [Seattle is in King County.] The U.S. Department of Energy’s Remote Sensing Laboratory Aerial Measurement System will collect baseline levels of radioactive materials. Some of the data may be withheld for national security purposes.
Indeed, the EPA has drastically reduced its radiation reporting to the public (which was never great), and has tried to raise acceptable radiation standards.
But isn't the amount of radiation Seattle residents are being exposed to safe? No, say many top experts.
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by Majj 7/12/2011 7:58:34 PM - @Majj I just came to post the same article lolby elainekirk 7/12/2011 7:59:05 PM
- @elainekirk coolby Majj 7/12/2011 7:59:21 PM
Hi everyone.by Jo 7/12/2011 8:03:29 PM- Hi@JOby elainekirk 7/12/2011 8:05:03 PM
- Off the remains of the central Fukushima, radioactive elements brought to the ocean by leaks and discharges of water cooling contaminate marine organisms. To whales! Radioactive cesium was indeed found in two individuals killed near Hokkaido. translation www.futura-sciences.comby elainekirk 7/12/2011 8:05:30 PM
- Understanding Nuclear Power In Singapore: A Necessity, Not A Choice – Analysis. Technical feasibility, regulatory structures, implementation and governance are important issues for a country to consider should it decide that nuclear energy should form part of its energy mix. However, the biggest and most immediate concern of Singapore’s policy-makers lies in the choices and actions of its neighbours which will ultimately have an impact on Singapore. Fukushima reminded us of one important fact – a nuclear disaster affects not only the citizens of one country, because the transnational effects of a radioactive material leaked into the oceans and the radioactive plumes snaking into the skies will be felt thousands of miles away. Indeed, Singaporeans and Malaysians will be able to vividly replay how their cities experience a yearly haze inundation from the fires blazing in Indonesia’s forests. One needs only to imagine the panic and hysteria that would arise if the haze was replaced by more nefarious substances like radioactive particles emanating from a power plant accident. www.eurasiareview.comby Majj 7/12/2011 8:21:48 PM
- @Majj I like that it is the first time I have seen consideration for the global communityby elainekirk 7/12/2011 8:33:14 PM
Hi all, anything new?by lillymunster 7/12/2011 8:35:57 PM- @elainekirk Singaporeans will play hard bow on Malaysians . They have the money around there.by Majj 7/12/2011 8:37:28 PM
- @lillymunster @Majj just discussing the fact that there seems more global awarenessby elainekirk 7/12/2011 8:40:07 PM
- @elainekirk things have been brewing for about 2 weeks. Good to see things growing. I saw more and more parents groups all the sudden. I think the beef story blew a huge hole in the central govt. trying to live in denial. They had to tell people the truth and were too late the food was eaten. That and it is becoming well known Tokyo got a good dose of radiation. Initially people saying so were attacked as rumor mongers or paranoids. Now it is everywhere and nobody is calling people names anymore.by lillymunster 7/12/2011 8:42:24 PM
- Hi Lilly, I have been reading more stuff on Dr Sternglass. The more I learn the more I go OMG...I did not know about operation Ketch or Plowshares....In the 1960's they were considering using the atomic bomb to make a channel through Panama....Like Eak...by Jo 7/12/2011 8:56:24 PM
- @Jo Yikes! Yea some of the things thought up for atomic technology are pretty scary now because we know better.by lillymunster 7/12/2011 8:59:15 PM
- Does anyone know details on the old style geiger counters? They are running anywhere from $20-$50 on ebay.by lillymunster 7/12/2011 9:00:01 PM
- Yep...Thank god they didn't go through with it. We have a big enough mess as it is.by Jo 7/12/2011 9:00:46 PM
- @Jo there were big efforts after WWII to come up with civilian uses for atomic energy. There was an atomic cruise ship.by lillymunster 7/12/2011 9:06:54 PM
- @lillymunster, Oh no, really..by Jo 7/12/2011 9:08:54 PM
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