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@lillymunster I had a contact who was a professor of pharmacology, and he got this huge grant from some pharmaceuticorp to study the effects of Ginko because the extracts are such huge sellers, and with its benefits for the aging, its use can only grow. So of course, pharma wanted to make some synthetic analog of it so they could patent it and make a fortune.

SO he set about his work testing it... OK... lets go for simplest first, is the active ingredient soluble in water? Yes. Completely. Lets run it through a molecular screen and see how big. Wow... HUGE, highly soluble organics.... they're giant polysaccharides or something. They'll never synthesize this. Why would you, anyway? Ginko grows like weeds into giant, abuse-resistant trees. It's easier to just extract it.

Ah, but you can't patent an extract. His funding was cut the next day.

Some new FukuPhotos : cryptome.org

@lillymunster That's the way I read that translation too. They're going to send canned fish from the affected area to third world countries at no cost to dispel the damaging rumors about the areas's food safety.

@lillymunster, looks to me like a wall panel was cleanly knocked off the truck entry. That would give it the impression of not being connected. But note that there's a lot of under-wall infrastructure visible there. Perhaps a fallen-out column knocked that panal off. Notice how close a hanging column is to that missing wall-panal space. The hole I referred to shows sings of having been blown out in the explosion, note its irregular edge and the outward-bent thin rebar. This shows a similarity to the Unit 4 blast we've not been able to see previously.

@lillymunster, similar damage may have occurred on the north side to the lower building there.

Up to one-seventh of Fukushima may be contaminated
mdn.mainichi.jp
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- It is likely that more than 2,000 square kilometers of land in Fukushima Prefecture have been contaminated with radioactive substances released from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and need to be decontaminated, research indicated Thursday.

The area accounts for about one-seventh of the whole prefecture, according to the estimation by Yuichi Moriguchi, a professor at the University of Tokyo. The volume of contaminated top soil that would need to be removed totals 100 million cubic meters.

The atomic devil strikes again – IAEA General Conference 2011 Sept. 19th – 23rd
tekknorg.wordpress.com
This has so many links in it, I've barely started following them all, but one of the first is this:

The main way in which the "radiation protection industry" has succeeded in hugely underrating the ill-health caused by nuclear power is by insisting on a group of extremely restrictive definitions as to what qualifies as a radiation-caused illness statistic. For example, under IAEA's criteria:

If a radiation-caused cancer is not fatal, it is not counted in the IAEA's figures

If a cancer is initiated by another carcenogen, but accelerated or promoted by exposure to radiation, it is not counted.

If an auto-immune disease or any non-cancer is caused by radiation, it is not counted.

Radiation-damaged embryos or foetuses which result in miscarriage or stillbirth do not count

A congenitally blind, deaf or malformed child whose illnesses are are radiation-related are not included in the figures because this is not genetic damage, but rather is teratogenic, and will not be passed on later to the child's offspring.

Causing the genetic predisposition to breast cancer or heart disease does not count since it is not a "serious genetic disease" in the Mendelian sense.

Even if radiation causes a fatal cancer or serious genetic disease in a live born infant, it is discounted if the estimated radiation dose is below 100 mSv [mSv= millisievert, a measurement of radiation exposure. One hundred millsievert is the equivalent in radiation of about 100 X-Rays].

Even if radiation causes a lung cancer, it does not count if the person smokes -- in fact whenever there is a possibility of another cause, radiation cannot be blamed.

If all else fails, it is possible to claim that radiation below some designated dose does not cause cancer, and then average over the whole body the radiation dose which has actually been received by one part of the body or even organ, as for instance when radio-iodine concentrates in the thyroid. This arbitrary dilution of the dose will ensure that the 100 mSv cut-off point is nowhere near reached. It is a technique used to dismiss the sickness of Gulf War veterans who inhaled small particles of ceramic uranium which stayed in their lungs for more than two years, and in their bodies for more than eight years, irradiating and damaging cells in a particular part of the body.

If anyone were testing pet food.

@Edano Yep... that's about as safe as it can get... decommissioned.