
@ikrockhopper if manufacturers leave :(
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 12:54:33 PM

@ikrockhopper and they will be trapped and not rich and be held to ransom by tepco's ever increasing electric bills
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 12:55:40 PM

@ikrockhopper the government should have set up call centres and given companies subsidies to use data provcessing and call centre services based in fuku
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 12:57:21 PM

@ikrockhopper the government has been really not doing anything to protect the economy there
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 12:58:29 PM

@ikrockhopper they should put him under house arrest make sure he cannot live out of the area
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 12:59:23 PM

@all - we found a few maybe leads on the Setagaya radium bottles thing. There is a Radiation Sciences lab at one of the universities, A (now) 3M plant that makes filters that filter out radium specifically and other filters dealing with absorbing other types or radioactive substances and a children's research hospital. No direct connections but any of these could possess radium bromide to use in their work. The newspapers reported the grocery store was the site of an agricultural college at one time but only the offices where there, not any of the labs or classrooms etc. So there is some potential for illegally thrown away bottles to make it into landfill or an empty lot. My personal take it that until there is some concrete proof these hot spots in Setagaya are caused by radium bottles the claim is suspect.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 1:01:01 PM

@ikrockhopper that is something global governments should be hanging for they are complicit in the deciet
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:01:30 PM

@ikrockhopper Hmm. US politics if a governor was living outside the state I think he could be recalled?
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 1:02:29 PM

@lillymunster I cannot believe all these radium bottles
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:02:53 PM

@elainekirk I find it suspect and wonder if the radium paint incident gave them a convenient excuse. I would want lots of documentation and photographic evidence of the work being done before I would believe it completely.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 1:03:47 PM

@lillymunster we have mp's who don't live in their constituencies or they just buy a house there to keep local quiet it is farcical
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:04:12 PM

@ikrockhopper I am glad people are not believing it
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:04:41 PM

@elainekirk We had a big dust up with state Senators having nicer homes in Washington DC than in South Dakota and being accused of not truely living here anymore.
@ikrockhopper - glad there is suspicion about the bottle claims. I think the best course of action is more and more of the citizen monitoring that has been going on where people take a radiation detector with them and test as they go places. Lots of people doing that could eventually build a very comprehensive map.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 1:06:52 PM

@ikrockhopper US media has been horrible lately. Following the occupy activities through sources that are there then seeing what the major TV media tells people is so manipulated. There are no media standards anymore and most people don't understand where to get better information. Those who are comfortable online can find it, others don't know where to do so.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 1:08:45 PM

terrible isn't it that anything from official sources globally is instantly distrusted, I always try to find what is really going on when ours start fantasising
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:09:12 PM

@ikrockhopper good night rockhopper sleep well
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:14:12 PM

@ikrockhopper oh wow ty
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:19:27 PM

@ikrockhopper that is really good info
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:19:57 PM

Hrm - that is interesting if the workers think it is sketchy
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 1:23:06 PM

@ikrockhopper goodnight sleep well
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 1:23:46 PM


pic of the supposed radium bottle in Setagaya dwqovw6qi0vie.cloudfront.net
article ajw.asahi.com

from the article: The ministry remeasured levels in and around the supermarket on Nov. 2, and detected 0.2 to 12 microsieverts of radiation at 15 locations, including the ground's surface and the supermarket floor.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 1:36:18 PM

Tokyo company owned by TEPCO to take rad waste debris from Iwate, burn it and bury it in Tokyo bay landfill. There is an interesting discrepancy in the official report of no radiation, yet a citizen and a reporter found considerable radiation in the container of debris.
ex-skf.blogspot.com by lillymunster 11/3/2011 2:17:47 PM

What does the 100 fold increase in krypton 85 have to do with the criticality issues?
ex-skf.blogspot.comby lillymunster 11/3/2011 2:23:53 PM

@lillymunster the japanese government are begining to cross the line that they had already stretched to it's limits
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 2:30:52 PM

coating bottles with radium so maybe they are not bottles containing radium maybe they are just finding bottles that have a radium coating and the source of the readings is not the bottle
www.alibaba.comby elainekirk 11/3/2011 2:34:57 PM

@elainekirk looking at the stunt pulled in Tokyo with the debris processing it is hard to fully trust what is being said about things in Setagaya. Until I see a video of someone putting a geiger counter up to the discovered bottle, removing it and re scanning the area I am going to be skeptical. Even then it makes me wonder. Old bottles are buried everywhere, as part of landfill waste and people used to bury them in their yards as they wouldn't burn in a trash barrel.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 2:41:21 PM

@lillymunster yup it is a con and any scientist worth his salt would be shouting from the rooftops the new bottle discovered I can find no radium bottle pics that size or colour
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 2:45:15 PM

@elainekirk I have seen amber ones.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 2:49:13 PM

Another thing they need to be asking themselves in Japan is that if these GLASS radium bottles are a source and are being found oh so far buried or physically distant, as in the cellar ones, it means
A- that turning soil in playgrounds etc is a useless method
B- that glass does not prevent radiation leakage as they would have us believe globally when the encase rad waste in it
by elainekirk 11/3/2011 2:50:15 PM

Amber and green glass here -
www.orau.org cobalt blue glass is common around the 1800's but I have not seen one specifically as a radium bottle
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 2:50:49 PM

@elainekirk I think the industrial vitrification uses a specific type of glass/ceramic - it isn't intended to shield the radiation but to make extraction of the uranium/plutonium impossible if someone got their hands on it.
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 2:52:07 PM

" find of the broken 500-milliliter bottle containing a mass of dark red-brown material believed to be radium-226."
mdn.mainichi.jpIt is possible that the radium in the bottle was from one of those solid radium sources that you just put in a bottle to make radium water either for consumption or possible lab use?
by lillymunster 11/3/2011 2:55:58 PM