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@lillymunster Monday, July 18, 2011
411 More Cows In Fukushima Found To Have Been Fed Cesium-Tainted Straw
FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo)--Seven more farms in Fukushima Prefecture fed their beef cattle rice straw contaminated with radioactive cesium, bringing a total of about 411 more cows suspected of having been exposed to the isotope into the nation's beef distribution chain, the Fukushima prefectural government said Monday. e.nikkei.com

@lillymunster I can't honestly believe the zone around Fuku will be declared safe to return to. Rather, all the bad news has to seep out slowly :(

Murakami, the No-Nuclear Principles, Nuclear Power and the Bomb: japanfocus.org

Speaking as an Unrealistic Dreamer - Speech by Murakami Haruki on the occasion of receiving the International Catalunya Prize: japanfocus.org

Typhoon Ma-on brushes Daito Island
A very large and powerful typhoon is moving east of Minami Daito Island in Okinawa Prefecture.
The Meteorological Agency says typhoon Ma-on was 270 kilometers northeast of Minami Daito Island and moving north at 20 kilometers per hour as of 10 AM on Monday.
The typhoon has a central atmospheric pressure of 945 hectopascals.
Winds of up to 162 kilometers per hour are blowing near its center, and more than 90 kilometers per hour within a radius of 170 kilometers.
The typhoon is expected to continue moving northward and may approach the Japanese main islands from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Strong winds of up to 126 kilometers per hour are expected in southern Kyushu, and up to 108 kilometers per hour in northern Kyushu and Shikoku.
Waves are forecast to reach a height of 10 to 12 meters in the Daito Islands, Amami Islands, southern Kyushu and Shikoku.
Heavy rainfall is expected from Kyushu through the Tokai region along the Pacific coast of the main islands, with some areas receiving rains of 50 to 70 millimeters per hour.
Up to 400 millimeters of rain is expected to fall in southern Kyushu and Shikoku, and 350 millimeters in the Tokai region by Tuesday morning.
Monday, July 18, 2011 10:23 +0900 (JST) www3.nhk.or.jp

Japan needs more than Kan's bravado to create truly new, viable energy policy
Last week, media coverage on statements that Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Yoshiaki Takaki made concerning the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor put him on edge, causing him to "redo" a press conference. The episode was symbolic of Japan's reticence in the face of myriad interests and the fact that it has lost sight of national politics' big picture.
Monju has been hailed as a "dream reactor" because it generates electricity using spent nuclear fuel. As it's still a prototype in the developmental stages, it remains under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and not the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which oversees the nuclear power industry. mdn.mainichi.jp

Will Fukushima Survivors Be Doubly Victimized With Radiation Sickness and Stigmatization? Watching ARS: Fukushima, the sequel to Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS): Hiroshima and Nagasaki, play out on the world stage spurred me to view an actual drama about radiation sickness. Black Rain, the 1988 film by Shohei Imamura, begins with, and occasionally flashes back to, the bombing of Hiroshima. It depicts the lives of a group of survivors five years later when they begin to succumb to ARS.

As you may be aware, radiation sickness was a stigma to many in post-war Japan. A primitive response, to be sure, but one which served as a coping mechanism. Film reviewer Roger Ebert provided some insight into how it works shortly after Black Rain was released in the United States www.ips-dc.org

gm, lilly, I can't believe that the government will be able to declare the crisis over and life back to normal any time soon. Whatever the government might call their roadmap, at minimum the recirculation of cooling water must be accomplished for all reactors and SFPs, the radioactive emissions into the air must be contained, that is Units 1 - 3 need gazebos installed, and the possibility of another hydrogen explosion must be quelled with nitrogen injections into the RPVs and primary containments. As I understand, unit 3's containment has not held any nitrogen to date. To me, these pronouncements must be posturing and pandering to appearances to impress the public with aggressive actions and exert pressure on tepco to keep up with the work expediently.

Japan to Review Power Supply After Kansai Shutdown, Sankei Says: Japan’s government will meet to discuss power demand and supply as early as tomorrow after Kansai Electric Power Co. shut a reactor at one of its nuclear stations, the Sankei newspaper reported, without citing anyone.
The meeting will be led by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, the Japanese-language newspaper said. Customers of Kansai Electric will be asked to save power, it said. Power shortages are expected to worsen after the shutdown, Trade Minister Banri Kaieda said, according to the report.
Kansai Electric, which supplies power to Osaka and surrounding areas, closed the No. 1 reactor at its Ohi nuclear plant on July 16 because of a malfunction. The reactor has been running without final approval from regulators since March after being shutdown for regular maintenance. www.bloomberg.com

Did you hear about the alert at Illinois' Dresden Nuclear Plant? July 18, 2011 On Friday, the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant located 60 miles southwest of Chicago declared an Alert at 10:16 a.m after a chemical leak restricted access to a vital area that houses plant cooling water pumps. The material leaked was sodium hypochlorite, a chemical similar to bleach which is routinely used in plants to treat water.
According to the few mentions of the incident, there was no known impact to the public health and safety and the environment.
Dresden Nuclear Power Plant in Morris, Illinios is owned and operated by Exelon Corp. located in Chicago.
www.examiner.com

tweet @EZ_Rider66: Sunset temple, Mr. Iwagami and 66 people out of 100,000 people 6 people are around Genkai-cho out of 100,000 leukaemia development rate national averages. What and, 11 times.
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There are so many cesium beef stories from Japan that it's hard to keep track of whether they have already been reported or if they are new.

Also no one talk of the radioactive SNOW , that has melting and recontaminating every thing

@Majj The radioactive snow is a problem in the US also, especially the Sierras and Cascades, where it finds its way into the water supply of much of the West.

@Bobby1 I was just comment on that. If America has water contaminate imagine Japan : While the levels in the rainwater exceed the applicable Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) of 3piC/L for drinking water, it is important to note that the corresponding MCL for iodine-131 was calculated based on long-term chronic exposures over the course of a lifetime 70 years. The levels seen in rainwater are expected to be relatively short in duration. Link to EPA: www.epa.gov

@Bobby1 That is why EPA love to talk on Iodine......

@lillymunster In los Alamos also : The air monitoring results for 137-Cesium, 239-Plutonium, and 241-Americium are below air effluent Concentrations as specified in Table II of 20.3.4.461 NMAC, and are in compliance with "Dose Limits for Individual Members of the Public" 20.3.4.413 and "Compliance with Dose Limits for Individual Members of the Public" as specified under 20.3.4.414 NMAC. www.nmenv.state.nm.us

@Bobby1 in my understand YES