Japan Earthquake

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@Luisa generally so. Sometimes the JP version will elaborate more but on subtle or tangent information.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 11:50:29 AM

@lillymunster Yes, I saw that, didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Both. It's unbelievable.
by Luisa 9/13/2011 11:50:31 AM

@Luisa Glad to hear NISA has the legal ability to compel them. What really seemed silly is that they are claiming corporate secrets, that there is proprietary knowledge they don't want their competitors to get. I doubt anyone would use those manuals as anything other than a what not to do. :-) I think it is a legal dodge hoping to not incriminate themselves.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 11:52:13 AM

Support from Germany for Japan to pursue a non-nuclear future. Schroeder: Japan can form energy policy without nuclear power mdn.mainichi.jp
by Luisa 9/13/2011 11:55:15 AM

Nikkan SPA Magazine: Researcher Says Large Amount of Neptunium-239 Also in Date City, Fukushima

It's the same researcher who said several thousand becquerels/kg of neptunium-239 was found in the soil in Iitate-mura, about 35 km northwest of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It seems it's not just Iitate-mura that got doused with neptunium, which decays into plutonium. Date City, about 25 km northwest from Iitate-mura and 60 km from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, also got a large amount of neptunium.

To recap, uranium-239, whose half life is about 24 minutes, decays into neptunium-239 with a half life of about 2.5 days, which then decays into plutonium-239 whose half life is 24,200 years. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by Majj 9/13/2011 11:56:23 AM

@Majj I saw that but hadn't read the article yet, 60km from the plant! They have got to do a comprehensive soil study for plutonium over the whole region.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 11:57:57 AM

@lillymunster If the neptunium-239 have a half life of about 2.5 days, How it cam bi find now there ?????
by Majj 9/13/2011 11:59:33 AM

test
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 12:28:00 PM

help!
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 12:29:54 PM

Elaine did you just get epic weirdness
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 12:30:09 PM

@lillymunster yes and deb and angie
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 12:31:22 PM

I had to clear everything and reboot my computer.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 12:32:52 PM

@lillymunster ang says it is showing again for her but deb is still absent I hope it hasnt swallowed her
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 12:33:35 PM

I sent in a trouble ticket because I was getting an errored out page on top of not being able to post
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 12:35:03 PM

@lillymunster I got the error page and couldnt get back then I spotted ang and deb on fbook and did the clear out
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 12:36:06 PM

@Majj if your still here, The articles are not clear when the testing was done but say the researcher's paper comes out this month. If there is still neptunium something is very bad and TEPCO is lying.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 12:36:13 PM

@lillymunster iaea issued a statement today saying everything honky doory
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 12:37:11 PM

@lillymunster I think " EVERYTHING is very bad and TEPCO is lying."
by Majj 9/13/2011 12:45:15 PM

@elainekirk IAEA's statement is not helpful. It gives the international community the idea everything is over and solved. The ABC story this morning on TV showed someone spraying down a swing set and said people are cleaning up from the Fukushima reactors that are now in a stable situation.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 12:47:28 PM

.....The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has achieved a stable condition now, says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The current plan of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the plant, to bring it fully under control by lowering the reactors' temperatures by January is realistic, IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano said in Vienna on Monday.
"The agency's assessment now is that the reactors are essentially stable and the expectation is that the cold shutdown of all the reactors will be achieved as planned," he told a regular board meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.......
by Majj 9/13/2011 12:54:12 PM

@lillymunster they are just gonna dump in the ocean they feel invincible and nobody is going to get proper (if any) compensation
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 12:55:19 PM

They are talking on the reactors stability , not in the Corium that scape the reactors and is coming to the south Atlantic.....
by Majj 9/13/2011 12:57:10 PM

China and Russia have a vested interest in not having the Pacific become a nuclear waste dump. So them and Greenpeace seem to be our best hope for doing something. It just seems insane that the US govt. seems to be cooperating in downplaying the problems that are becoming US problems, soil contamination, contaminated fishing.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 1:00:20 PM

Maybe we need to push back more on this IAEA report. I need to go find the news report from the university that said the corium was out of the buildings and post something on the website.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 1:01:33 PM

I got a reply from my trouble ticket. They said they would look into it and then one a bit later that it was fixed. Someone needed to go kick a server. :-)
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 1:07:39 PM

@Luisa hahaha, Schröder is now working in Russia for Gazprom ! LOL
by Edano 9/13/2011 2:04:10 PM

english.kyodonews.jp

Edano apologizes to Fukushima
Japan's new industry minister Yukio Edano (right) bows to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (left) at the Fukushima prefectural government hall in the city of Fukushima on Sept. 13, 2011. Edano apologized for his predecessor's abrupt resignation over gaffes related to a nuclear crisis in the prefecture and vowed to exert efforts to contain the crisis soon. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 9/13/2011 2:07:40 PM

@Edano hey your back in a suit!
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 2:18:17 PM

High activity concentrations of several man-made radionuclides (such as 131I, 132I, 132Te, 134Cs and 137Cs) have been detected along the Iberian Peninsula from March 28th to April 7th 2011. The analysis of back-trajectories of air masses allowed us to demonstrate that the levels of manmade radionuclide activity concentrations in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula come from the accident produced in the nuclear power plant of Fukushima. The pathway followed by the radioactive plume from Fukushima into Huelva (southwest of the Iberian Peninsula) was deduced through back-trajectories analysis, and this fact was also verified by the activity concentrations measured of those radionuclides reported in places crossed by this radioactive cloud. In fact, activity concentrations reported by E.P.A., and by IAEA, in several places of Japan, Pacific Ocean and United States of America are according to the expected ones from the air mass trajectory arriving at Huelva province. Lozano2011_Fukushima.pdf
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 2:56:18 PM

Fukushima fallout in Northwest German environmental media. Abstract

Traces of short- and long-lived fallout isotopes ((131)I, (134)Cs and (137)Cs) were found in environmental samples collected in Northwest Germany (rain water, river sediment, soil, grass and cow milk) from March to May 2011, following the radioactivity releases after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan. The measured concentrations are consistent with reported concentrations in air, amount of rainfall and expected values applying simple radioecological models. The [(134)Cs]/[(137)Cs] ratio reported for air (about 1) allows for discrimination between "recent" and "old"(137)Cs. Expected (136)Cs values fell below the detection limits of the instrumentation, despite large sample masses and long counting times. J Environ Radioact. 2011 Sep;102(9):877-80.
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:04:18 PM

www.tepco.co.jp
I am gobsmacked - and they say everything is under control
by elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 9/13/2011 3:04:35 PM

At some point, they may have to do some trimming of the hedges. Is plant material buildup a fire hazard in Japan ecosystems?
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:06:44 PM

@elainekirk It is just wonderful, um yea.
@Cryptococcus, I wonder if brush gets dried out in the winter like California or if they have enough snow to prevent fires.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 3:08:14 PM

@Cryptococcus I would say that growing around where the webcam is sited is very much needing trimmed as the men in wet weater or if moving in a hurry are going to find it a real hazard
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 3:08:39 PM

@all At the very least, they will trip over the stems and branches. Yes, I've been watching those bushes and grasses growing. ^^ A minor irritation perhaps, but little things sometimes add up to a big one.
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:09:55 PM

@Cryptococcus I worry about safety, like that walkway. It is frequently used and if someone is in a hurry if something goes bad they could trip over the vines. I know they had someone mowing somewhere on site, they had an injury due to a lawnmower blade.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 3:15:04 PM

"In the wake of Fukushima, it is clear that the INES scale and manual need to be 100 per
cent rewritten." In a Letter to the Editor, in response to Wakeford R 2011 And now, Fukushima J. Radiol. Prot. 31 167–76. William Cullerne Bown, Research Fortnight, London, UK.
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:15:40 PM

Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) 14th Report. Further consideration of the incidence of childhood leukemia around nuclear power plants in Great Britain. www.comare.org.uk
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:19:53 PM

link to the COMARE website with other reports: www.comare.org.uk
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:21:30 PM

OK maybe it is something in the translation but..............erm translate.googleusercontent.com
by elainekirk 9/13/2011 3:24:03 PM

Important to this report is an editorial response to the COMARE 2011 Report, published in the Journal of Radiological Protection. Free here iopscience.iop.org
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:24:18 PM

@elaine haha...ahem. Well it IS a scary visit! lol
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:25:28 PM

[The 14th COMARE Report (2011)] "...shows that there is no evidence of a significant increase of CL in the vicinity of NPPs in Britain." A German storm affecting Britain: childhood leukemia and nuclear power plants (invited editorial) iopscience.iop.org
by Cryptococcus 9/13/2011 3:31:35 PM

@elainekirk LOL. I just love some of the things Google Translate comes up with.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 3:32:33 PM

@Cryptococcus do they have one conclusion on the study? I jumped to the conclusion statement and it went on for pages.
by lillymunster 9/13/2011 3:36:26 PM