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How right you are @lillymunster the other problem is the social unrest in that part of the world and bunkerbuster bombs go thru everything www.youtube.com

Here's a short review of a 2011 study I posted a day or two ago : www.springer.com

ok :)
It's a bit longer 'cos there where some important infos following the blogging (links, adresses) so I added them to have it together. The main part is between the '***'-lines.

@elainekirk @lillymunster, here's one non-official map showing the evac extension : thecoloradocoalition.org I'd like to get it on a solid map.

@elainekirk, you're a miracle worker! Thanks, perfect!

Check out this chilling study of children who were neonates in Pripyat when Chernobyl exploded neuro.psychiatryonline.org (Loganovsky et al.) Pripyat was evacuated, and from what I can find, the Chernobyl evacuation was completed in just three days www.yourdiscovery.com whereas it took weeks to complete the Fukushima evacuation www.washingtonpost.com . So the findings of Loganovsky et al. may extrapolate to children who were neonates in evacuated (or even non-evacuated) regions of Fukushima.

Since we are talking about releases, here this from the goj update to IAEA, p II-391:
"The measurement results of the concentration of radioactive materials in the atmosphere near the west gate of the NPS (1 km west of the reactor buildings) are now approximately 2×10e-6 Bq/cm3 each for cesium 134 and cesium 137 (cf. Figure II-4-2, Average measurement results in late July and early August). Ignoring radioactive materials previously released that settled on the ground but have been borne aloft once more, and supposing that all of the measurements are of the amount currently being released from the NPS, the release rate (the total of Units 1 to 3), after being divided by the above concentration of 1 Bq/second, is estimated to be approximately 2.9×10e4 Bq/second (approximately 200 million Bq/hour in total) each for cesium 134 and cesium 137."

@elainekirk , yes I answered this morning (Friday Oct 7), unless there is a new question.

And on p II-393 we read:
"....the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) estimated the release amount to the atmosphere from Units 1 to 3 of Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS, by taking into consideration the amount of radioactive materials in the reactor core shortly after the accident initiation, and the total release amount to the atmosphere during approximately four days shortly after the accident initiation was estimated to be approximately 1.6×10e17 Bq for iodine 131, approximately 1.8×10e16Bq for cesium 134, and approximately 1.5×10e16Bq for cesium 137 [II-4-1]."

Seven months after the nuclear crisis began at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.S. government again warned its citizens Friday to avoid areas near the stricken reactors.
The U.S. State Department put out the travel alert -- which updates one issued about three months ago -- based on "additional data ... from Japanese authorities, allowing for a fuller assessment by U.S. government scientists."
U.S. urges citizens to avoid area around stricken Japanese reactors.
The alert recommends that U.S. citizens stay away from any place within 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the plant. They are also being told to stay away from territory northwest of the power facility in what Japan has described as the "Deliberate Evacuation Area" and includes Iitate-mura, the Yamagiya district of Kawamata-machi, Katsurao-mura, Namie-machi and parts of Minamisoma.
Moreover, it advised all to abide by Japanese government recommendations on other spots to evacuate and urged U.S. citizens now within any evacuation zone to get out immediately. edition.cnn.com

Elaine, it must have been around nine EST. Hey and then they upped their estimates a bit on p II-394: "Also, as for the release on March 15, by taking into consideration the contribution to the air dose rate of tellurium-132 and its progeny nuclide, iodine-132, which were previously ignored, the estimated release rate of iodine-131 and cesium-137 decreased in relative terms. In this way it was possible to derive the estimated provisional calculation of approximately 1.3×10e17 Bq for iodine-131 and approximately 1.1×10e16 Bq for cesium-137 for the total release amount of radioactive iodine and cesium to the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS reactors from March 12 to April 5."