Japan Earthquake

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@Edano , check the wiki out. If you stick to the brands listed, you will buy exclusively Chinese tea. This kind of tea is valued so highly among Chinese that cheating is pretty much excluded. Same goes for Vietnamese and Indian varieties. The natives would immediately taste the difference, if the tea was blended.
by Peter 10/17/2011 12:25:01 PM

Contaminated materials storage

The government has indicated that it will soon present a plan on how long contaminated materials from the Fukushima nuclear accident will need to be stored at temporary storage sites.

Senior government and regional officials met on Monday to discuss ways to handle problems caused by the nuclear contamination.

Fukushima officials said they cannot set up temporary storage sites for the contaminated materials, such as soil removed from polluted areas, unless they know how long the materials will be stored before being moved to mid-term storage facilities.

Nuclear crisis minister Goshi Hosono said the government will present a timetable this month.

Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato called for a change in procedures for those applying for compensation for losses related to the nuclear accident.

He said those affected must complete application forms prepared by Tokyo Electric Power Company, and that the procedure puts the sufferer at a disadvantage.

Reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano replied that the procedure may not be neutral.

Monday, October 17, 2011 19:41 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 10/17/2011 12:28:02 PM

@Edano , 0.2 mSv/year outside the plants! That does not sound credible, because the exclusion zone was defined by >20 microSv/h or 175 mSv/y.
by Peter 10/17/2011 12:44:40 PM

@Peter The article says additional 0.2 mSv/year. Question is, additional to what? Background radiation? Official exposure limit? It's ambiguous.
by Pedro Jesus 10/17/2011 12:50:47 PM

@Peter @Pedro Jesus There are some non-Japanese sources for Sushi rice but they are rather limited.

Is the tea list in our Fukushima FAQ Wiki or something else?
by lillymunster 10/17/2011 12:55:06 PM

@Pedro Jesus , also with a source spewing about 100 million becquerels per hour into the air, in no other country would they let you go near, not even in France!
by Peter 10/17/2011 12:56:29 PM

... this rate of release may be much less than during the first weeks of the crisis, but still is a lot!
by Peter 10/17/2011 12:58:34 PM

On buying green tea, I bought old tea produced before March. For this year's crop I was going to buy Kagoshima tea, as it is furthest removed from Fukushima. However, with questions of blending tea and outright mislabelling concerns, I bought tea produced locally (in Shikoku) which I could trust was from the source stated.
by Will 10/17/2011 1:06:53 PM

@Peter True. In Portugal, we keep a close look at rad emissions... whenever any Spanish nuke plant screws up our Government issues an official statement to the press with recommendations to the public. Luckily, no fallout attributed to Fukushima-Daiichi emissions within our boundaries has been reported so far. We have a no nuclear policy, although it had been discussed back in the late eighties and nineties. The public is generally against nuclear power around here. We're miles away from nuclear power now since a huge investment effort either from the Government and public/private companies has been thrown into renewable energy sources in the last 20 or so years.
by Pedro Jesus 10/17/2011 1:06:58 PM

@Will , I was wondering, do Japanese use the same varieties for their kind of tea that other Southeast Asian countries do?
by Peter 10/17/2011 1:09:44 PM

good morning to every one
by dean 10/17/2011 1:22:45 PM

good morning
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 1:28:34 PM

nuclearhistory.wordpress.com I was searching for the DOE report,, ran into this
by dean 10/17/2011 1:31:33 PM

@dean just reading
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 1:31:52 PM

@elaine. .is the kettle on
by dean 10/17/2011 1:31:55 PM

@dean it is giving me page not found can you repost link
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 1:32:25 PM

energy.gov another one
by dean 10/17/2011 1:32:55 PM

ok elaine
by dean 10/17/2011 1:33:00 PM

nuclearhistory.wordpress.com
by dean 10/17/2011 1:34:53 PM

@dean Hi!
by lillymunster 10/17/2011 1:34:58 PM

the nuclearhistory one was a projection for first year exposure
by dean 10/17/2011 1:35:21 PM

hi @lilly.. maybe that energy.gov is paydirt.. check it out
by dean 10/17/2011 1:35:34 PM

enformable.com @all.. comanche peak nuclear power plant evacuation maps
by dean 10/17/2011 1:38:30 PM

@dean It is all Japan data but a good one to keep - they did a rad survey on the bullet train that is interesting
by lillymunster 10/17/2011 1:38:40 PM

@Peter Japanese (and Chinese?) tea is grown, I believe, from a different variety of tea plant and from a range of different strains of that variety. Then picking and processing styles define the tea type as well. I'm no expert...just love green (non-nuclear) tea!
by Will 10/17/2011 1:40:02 PM

Elaine posted this yesterday. TEPCO seems to be trying to claim any of the uranium in the sea soil outside the intakes is naturally occuring. What kind of drugs are they on??? www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 10/17/2011 1:55:15 PM

@lilly.. whaky backy .... they could have blamed it on FRANCE
by dean 10/17/2011 1:57:41 PM

yeah the steam/smoke is wacky backy
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 2:04:21 PM

@dean It has to be something for them to think people would buy that after all the reports of what has been leaking out of those intakes for half a year.
by lillymunster 10/17/2011 2:06:13 PM

@Will , I had tea the Japanese way on several occasions. It involved mixing a fine green powder with a bamboo brush into a cup of hot water. I imagine you need a special kind of tea for that.
by Peter 10/17/2011 2:07:05 PM

@elaine and lilly.. a new research.."has" japan dumped nuclear wastes in the sea...and/all forms.... I keep hearing they don't have burial sites etc and makes me wonder... we've heard about the sludge being used and shipped to a processing plant,, ,but, how about low level waste and high level waste or transuranics etc. what about the wastes from the processing plants etc.
by dean 10/17/2011 2:12:01 PM

@dean they are dumping they are using 'cleaned' rad water to spray constantly the areas where the trees are being cut down at daiichi and nobody turns a hair can they not see how it is just an excuse to dump the water which will run off into the ocean
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 2:14:38 PM

true on that @elaine, all the dumping after fukushima... I wonder about before fukushima tho..
by dean 10/17/2011 2:15:58 PM

@dean plus there is the pipeline that broke that was carrying waste out to sea that wasnt tepco
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 2:16:38 PM

yes @ elaine, and tons of mixed hazardous waste, solid waste, liquid waste etc. For an industry that has been around so long I have heard they don't have a very robust system for handling waste, long term storage or disposal methods as well as transporation regulations for the waste
by dean 10/17/2011 2:18:13 PM

@dean www2.jnes.go.jp
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 2:18:57 PM

@dean , some of the urania may stem from processing plants like that where they had the criticality accident.
by Peter 10/17/2011 2:19:30 PM

I think their main research facility is the one that had a waste pipe where they were running low level rad waste out to sea.
by lillymunster 10/17/2011 2:20:20 PM

@lillymunster this one? www2.jnes.go.jp
by elainekirk 10/17/2011 2:21:49 PM

@Peter thats what I was thinking...
by dean 10/17/2011 2:25:18 PM

Some of the reactor operators at Pilgrim NPP have to retake their NRC written exams (per NRC email)
by lillymunster 10/17/2011 2:26:13 PM

I think we'd be shocked to see the way waste has been handled in Japan throughout the nuclear industry complexes
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by dean 10/17/2011 2:26:14 PM

@lilly or @elaine google up the exam so we can take a crack at it
by dean 10/17/2011 2:31:59 PM

www.nrc.gov FUNDAMENTALS EXAM from Dec 2010
by dean 10/17/2011 2:35:26 PM

@Peter Yes, matcha (quality green tea, finely ground into a powder) is used. Matcha is also used to flavour food, such as Japanese confectionary and ice-cream.
by Will 10/17/2011 2:36:41 PM