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@Edano , that would only be possible if somebody froze samples away.

@dean, nice find! It says it "displays a forecast of total deposition to the surface over the next 10 days of either I-131 or Cs-137."

@lillymunster @ElaineKirk - to carry on a conversation from a week ago - food radiation testing: Tokyo Kids & Radiation reports through FB:
my next trip to the supermarket will be Survey meter in-hand. i am using an eberline RM-19 with eberline HP-360 pancake, RMT GX-1 NaI scintillation probe (1in aluminum shielded), and eberline GM 1 in end window probe (less sensitive but less bulky for walk-by hot-spot detection on streets- not appropriate for food) awaiting shipment of a 2in scint. (Next Post) [It is] used and calibrated. both the scintillator and pancake. as K-40 emits β too, the scintillator will be the first up. If it is under the reference level, there is little chance i will see a rise beyond margin of error, but coupled with a usb based scintillator and laptop in the event i pick up a heavy rise, i can pretty much tell you "i don't know the others are safe, but this one is definitely not" (Last Post) i got a rise on nira from tochigi and spinach from gunma with a radex over several minutes so I want to see. the veggie markets, I will talk with the tencho first and request permission to do it discretely together, but at the packaged food stores, business is business. if meat sauce is being served in my ku in public schools which has been found to be beyond the legal limit, what is in that box of children's curry? I have a right to give it a try. I expect that after going through data from the more than 10,000 samples checked with HPGe detectors for the government and seeing many ND marks before they found as high as 41KBq/kg in food products, i may get many NDs, but if I find one that is not ND, I have a food lab on the line waiting for it.

@lillymunster. Me too. I was very glad to read his post this morning. He has been working very hard to find a good meter and get a lab to support. He is keen to set up a network for this type of testing, as there is little trust in government testing of food. Off to work I go.

Teachers urged to study radiation [25 August, 2011]: www.yomiuri.co.jp
"The government has shifted the budget allocated for promoting its nuclear power policy to organizing seminars to educate schoolteachers about radiation in light of the growing demand for education on radioactivity due to the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

The government has started holding workshops on the issue, aiming to achieve participation of 1,400 teachers nationwide.

Such workshops have been organized as part of training seminars for teachers to renew their teaching certificates. The workshops have attracted many teachers who are eager to acquire accurate knowledge about radiation in response to worries and misinformation on the subject."

Live on NHK World just now is 'Green Style Japan - Recovering from the Disaster: cleaning up after the accidents', discussing cleaning up the radiation using plants (phytoremediation): www3.nhk.or.jp

@lillymunster , according to the article, tepco seems to be shoring up and increasing the breakwater walls, something that needs to be done in any case. They also must repair the residual heat removal equipment because it provides the heat sink for the spent fuel pools.