Japan Earthquake

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@Peter Melzer Yes it does.
by RadioGuy 8/23/2011 2:07:20 AM

But then, it even makes BP's mess look manageable by comparison.
by RadioGuy 8/23/2011 2:08:13 AM

@RadioGuy Well, but BP's mess clearing has had a big help from Mother Nature. I'm not sure if we will be that lucky with TEPCO's mess.
by Pedro Jesus 8/23/2011 2:10:50 AM

@RadioGuy , too true. Though I see quite a few similarities when it comes to the handling of the crisis. Unfortunately, there is no such creature as radiation-eating bacteria.
by Peter Melzer 8/23/2011 2:11:55 AM

back
by dean 8/23/2011 2:16:48 AM

Cesium detected in nurseries and kindergartens in Niigata Tokamachi: Niigata Tokamachi April 22, a result of the radioactive material and soil survey of childcare facilities by the City, 8900 10,000 becquerels per kilogram of sludge accumulated in the tank to collect rainwater in a white plum nurseries, kindergartens and private Atago announced that the 7000 detected radioactive cesium from the sediment as 20,000 becquerels of Csaba. translate.google.com
by Majj 8/23/2011 2:25:34 AM

ikrockhopper Itsumi Kakefuda
If covering 1/5 of the Fukushima 20km area with solar energy panels, it will generate as much electricity as TEPCO does. @kujirakun
2 minutes ago
by Majj 8/23/2011 2:29:01 AM

@Pedro Jesus Yes, there just don't seem to be that many radiation-eating bacteria I guess.
by RadioGuy 8/23/2011 2:29:29 AM

@Majj Now wouldn't that be a fitting use of all that uninhabitable land.
by RadioGuy 8/23/2011 2:30:00 AM

@RadioGuy I love the idea
by Majj 8/23/2011 2:30:33 AM

I noticed that in Arnie Gunderson's latest, he's talking about the fact that the trash burning is now re-aerosolizing the cesium from the debris, which is now being redeposited on the already cleaned schools and municipalities, as well as down into other areas via rivers when it rains out.
by RadioGuy 8/23/2011 2:32:39 AM

@RadioGuy Unfortunately not. =/
by Pedro Jesus 8/23/2011 2:39:40 AM

Protests at Bart station in SF are getting ugly. Protesters shooting fireworks at police.
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 3:05:18 AM

restarted
by Edano 8/23/2011 7:14:10 AM

Japan lowers Fukushima contamination estimate

Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission has revised downward the estimated amount of radioactive substances released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The commission now judges that 570-thousand terabecquerels of radioactive iodine 131 and cesium 137, about 10 percent less than its earlier estimate, leaked from the plant between March 12th and April 5th.

The commission put the total at 630-thousand terabecquerels in April.

The new figure was obtained by analyzing freshly released data on radiation levels measured at monitoring posts and amounts of radioactive materials in the air.

The commission also believes that leakage of radioactive substances peaked from 1 PM to 5 PM in the afternoon of March 15th when explosions occurred at reactors No. 2 and No. 4.

The timing is not much different than the commission's initial estimate, but the new figures revise downward the amount of radioactive substances released during the period by 60 percent.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency is expressing confidence in its new estimates, saying they are not largely different from earlier ones and are nearly consistent with changes in radiation measurements.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:25 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 8/23/2011 7:16:51 AM

i don't understand it. not a single word about sarry's failure...
by Edano 8/23/2011 7:17:55 AM

@Edano it is a secret they no longer wish to discuss the matter , this is Tepco they have their shareholders to consider
by elainekirk 8/23/2011 8:11:50 AM

Back soon :)
by elainekirk 8/23/2011 9:27:41 AM

Aerial radiation survey planned in 22 prefectures

Japan's science ministry is conducting an extensive aerial survey to see how radiation has spread from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The ministry plans to measure gamma ray radiation at altitudes of 150 to 300 meters and recalibrate the readings to estimate levels of radioactive substances closer to the ground.

The survey will start by October in 22 prefectures ranging from Aomori in the northeast to Aichi in central Japan.

Among the 22, Fukushima and 3 other prefectures have already finished the survey. Three others have begun or are due to begin the operation in August. The remaining 15, including Tokyo, will follow suit in September.
The science ministry has acquired additional equipment to enable it to work quickly, as winter snow could hamper accurate monitoring. All the prefectures are due to complete the survey by the end of the year.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:10 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 8/23/2011 9:29:21 AM

New case of cattle fed radioactive hay confirmed

Fukushima in northern Japan says cattle shipped from a farm in the prefecture were highly likely to have been fed hay contaminated with radioactive cesium.

The prefecture reported the results of its investigation to the national government on Monday in connection with new reports of contaminated beef found at a food processor.

It launched its investigation on Friday, just after beef from 12 head of cattle shipped from a farmer in April was found to contain radioactive cesium at twice the government safety standard.

In response, the national government immediately put off lifting a ban on shipments of beef and cattle from the prefecture.

Fukushima says the farmer told it that he had kept imported hay in his cattle barn with no side walls before he evacuated in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

It says the farmer fed his cattle the hay a week later when a very high level of atmospheric radiation was still detected. The prefecture concluded that the hay had been contaminated with atmospheric radioactive cesium.

Fukushima plans to ask the government to lift the shipment ban as soon as possible, saying the government did so for cattle fed contaminated rice straw from other prefectures last week.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:10 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 8/23/2011 9:30:27 AM

Radiation concern prompts review of school routes

Fukushima City says it will ask 80 percent of the city's elementary and junior high schools to review students' commuting routes due to higher than benchmark radiation levels.

The city is located about 60 kilometers from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In July, all its 72 elementary and junior high schools measured radiation levels 50 centimeters above the surface of roads used daily by their students.

City authorities say 59 of the schools, or 80 percent, detected one microsievert of radiation per hour or higher. 9 school routes measured 3 microsieverts per hour or more, with the highest reading topping 8 microsieverts.

One microsievert is the benchmark the government uses to determine whether top soil at school playgrounds should be removed with state subsidies.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:25 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 8/23/2011 9:33:06 AM

City in Fukushima declares August Decontamination Month [22 August, 2011]: www.japantoday.com
"It is a daunting task. Contamination from the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl has spread far and wide, across fields and farms, rivers and forests. Tens of thousands of residents have been forced to flee their homes.

But, shovelful by shovelful, one half-empty city on the edge of the evacuation zone is fighting to bring its future back.

Feeling forgotten and left largely to fend for themselves by the central government, officials in Minami-Soma, about 20 kilometers away from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, have designated August as “Decontamination Month” in a campaign to woo spooked residents home.

“We decided that we could not sit by and wait until Tokyo figured out what to do,” said town official Yoshiaki Yokota. “It’s an enormous task, but we have to start somewhere.”"
by es 8/23/2011 9:54:20 AM

@Eda no 3 SIEVERTS/HR at SARRY in #Fukushima I Nuke Plant
SARRY, a cesium absorption system in the contaminated water treatment complex at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant was stopped when the extremely high radiation of 3 sieverts/hour was detected during the operation to exchange the cesium towers. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by Majj 8/23/2011 10:32:56 AM

the translation says 3mSv/h translate.google.de and there is no second source, very strange.
by Edano 8/23/2011 10:40:12 AM

can't find it on tepco's website either.
by Edano 8/23/2011 10:47:52 AM

Japanese scientists attempt to breed radiation resistant rice
Scientists here are testing more than 100 varieties of rice in an effort to breed a strain of Japan's most important crop that is resistant to radioactive caesium. With the harvesting season approaching, vast tracts of rice crops across northeast Japan will have to be destroyed after being contaminated with radioactivity that has leaked from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, crippled by the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that it triggered.
Thousands of acres that are within the 18-mile no-go zone around the plant will not even be harvested as radioactivity levels are too high for the farmers to return to their paddies. www.telegraph.co.uk
by Majj 8/23/2011 10:58:40 AM

"Rice resistant to radioactive caesium' This is a new scam or they are serious ???
by Majj 8/23/2011 10:59:47 AM

Katz's Weekly Disaster Update is Live on Yokosonews for the next couple of hours - not all about Fuku, but he usually touches on many aspects of life in Japan: yokosonews.com
by es 8/23/2011 11:11:16 AM

@Majj what I read yesterday said it was some university researchers that planted a bunch of different kinds of rice to see what ones absorbed less cesium. I think the idea is then to switch growers to other strains or create a cross breed.
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 11:41:23 AM

"We might be able to develop new (cesium-resistant) rice strains if we find rice varieties that absorb less cesium through this project and cross them with Japanese rice," said Keisuke Nemoto, professor at the University of Tokyo's graduate school and a member of the team "
by Majj 8/23/2011 11:46:13 AM

@lillymunster that's about the same as what they do with the people ...
by Edano 8/23/2011 11:46:18 AM

The story Edano posted about the output of the plant. If they are using detectors around the plant it could miss releases that went up and out in the wind or up and out during the explosions.
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 11:46:44 AM

@Edano create radioactive resistant cross breeds?
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 11:47:16 AM

This mins , if we have a less cesium contaminate rice o get a weaker type of cancer ..... mdn.mainichi.jp
by Majj 8/23/2011 11:49:10 AM

I'm at lost. Is cesium the only radiative element out From Fukushima???? Cesium Cesium and Cesium , and the rest? what about the rest of it?? Cesium water treatment ? And every thin else that is there in this water ????
by Majj 8/23/2011 11:54:00 AM

@Majj Not sure why the hyper focus. Do plants absorb the others? I can't remember. I know the bio-remediation at Chernobyl talked about cesium frequently. I can't remember if the plants they used there absorbed other isotopes or not. Stronium and plutonium are being found but little is said. These other isotopes have been found a few places but they are more dangerous. Someone said it is harder to test for the others. I don't know if that has something to do with it?
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 11:59:47 AM

greetings and good morning
by dean 8/23/2011 12:00:19 PM

Morning Dean!

@Majj, it could at least lower the cesium in the rice but no cesium in the rice should be the goal. I wonder if growing sunflowers in paddies with minimal contamination combined with resistant rice could make rice with no radiation?
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 12:02:15 PM

@lillymunster Before was only talking on Iodine , now only cesium.... I don't know the half-life's, but is every thin contaminate with every thing. The amount I believe is indifferent as accumulation resolve this part. Little plutonium or much Plutonium We are being fooled in this cesium history to forget every thin else. as they do all the time :-(((( The Sarry system is to take cesium after the desalination take salt and the pre filter the oil. Ok and the rest ? Dos not meter?
by Majj 8/23/2011 12:07:33 PM

@lillymunster My cousin that is a Nuclear Physicist sad nothing of this plants really work for take radiation from soil. They try Chernobyl but they fail. She was studding it in German 5 years after the accident...
by Majj 8/23/2011 12:10:43 PM

@Majj I know, they never mention if or how they are clearing everything else in the water. They do have a reverse osmosis unit. I don't know if that is part of the desalination process and removes everything else? I do think part of the situation with soil and water testing outside the plant is govt. not wanting to tell people bad news. If people start thinking their garden or house dust has plutonium in it they will be even more mad for good reason.
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 12:11:01 PM

@Majj Hmm. I should go back and look at those I read and see if they actually gave a success rate.
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 12:11:49 PM

@lillymunster Mad they get better. Only then they will react , I'm sorry to say :-((((
by Majj 8/23/2011 12:13:38 PM

off to work... @ lilly I will try to get with my friend today and see if he has more detail on the location of the radiation instruments etc.
by dean 8/23/2011 12:14:47 PM

@dean sounds good. I am working on cataloging all the radiation exposure articles that everyone found. Started a spreadsheet to put them in along with the conclusion and and quantifiable data from each. I hope that proves useful for getting a clear picture of what all the studies say when put together and also basis for an article on what we find.
by lillymunster 8/23/2011 12:17:26 PM