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@lillymunster I have been away from Japan for all but two weeks since mid-August, so I haven't heard much here. But one of the conferences that I will attend later this month is primarily of epidemiologist, so I will pose that question. I have mostly just read what you all have read. I can also pose the question to my friend who is an expert from Kazakhstan, although he is often slow to respond. Surely if there is a related population it is in Semipalatinsk, more so than Chernobyl.

@bo Thanks, I keep going back to info on Semipalatinsk it really does seem to fit more than Chernobyl and the data from Semipaltinsk is so different and seems less prone to manipulation.

I see more and more people worrying about these illness stories and having members of the emperor's family being sick with them also is starting to really worry people. Meanwhile the govt seems to be playing the denial card again.

Atomic spiders in Iitate, cue the b-movie references! 1000x concentration of radioactive silver. ex-skf.blogspot.com

Significant rise in cancer risk within 5 years after exposure to ‘low-dose’ radiation — 12% increase after 40 millisieverts: enenews.com

Minamata disease exhibit offers lessons to radiation-hit Fukushima

TOKYO, Nov. 8, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

Well folks, to beat this jet lag, gots to get me
to bed so I can reset to Japanese rhythms. Will see you all in the morning.

Yet another problem - radioactive cedar pollen fukushima-diary.com

Plant status 10am on the 8th Nov (Daiichi)
unit 3
(water temperature of spent fuel
pool as of suspension: approx. 24.8°C). After finishing the reverse
cleaning of the primary strainer, then, at 7:17 pm on the same day we
restarted the alternative cooling (water temperature of spent fuel pool
as of restart: approx. 22.5°C *It is supposed that water temperature as
of restart became lower than that as of suspension because water in
skimmer surge tank was cooled down by outside air.
Unit 4
At 12:25 am on November 8, RO membrane unit of desalting facility in
spent fuel pool, Unit 4 automatically stopped due to the alarm
indicating leakage. Responding to the alarm, we confirmed that all the
isolation valves of each unit were closed by the interlocks. Also,
considering that all the spots at leakage risk were equipped with
receiving pans which would be able to store all of the liquid in the
unit, we judged that further deterioration of leakage or leakage to
outside of the unit was unlikely. We will check the site and situation
in the future. The operation of circulating cooling system has been
continued.
Other info
At 2:55 pm on November 7, we started another boiler by using a spare
water transfer pump for boiler. Then, we started evaporative
concentration apparatus 3B at 5:24 pm and 3C at 6 pm. Causes of the
trouble of the water transfer pump for boiler are still under
investigation. At 2:24 am on November 8, we manually stopped the boiler
of evaporative concentration apparatus in the water desalinations since
alarm worked and indicated decrease of water level in boiler water
supply tank at 2:20 am. Then, we stopped evaporative concentration
apparatus 3B at 2:28 am ad 3C at 2:31 am. Although all the evaporative
concentration apparatus stopped, water treatment by the water
desalinations (RO membrane system) and water injection to the reactors
have been continued. Causes will be investigated in the future.
www.tepco.co.jp

Plant Status 3.30pm on the 8th Nov (Daiichi)
Unit 4
Afterwards, as the result of confirmation at the site of this
facility, we confirmed that the leakage have stopped, all of the leaked
liquid is in the receiving pans (approx. 5 liter), and there exists a
trail of leakage from the pump casing of RO membrane unit. At 2:00 pm on
the same day, we wiped out the leaked liquid and reset the alarm. We
will investigate in detail.
Other notes
From 10:11 am on November 2 to 3:05 pm on November 8, we transferred the
accumulated water from the basement of the Unit 3 turbine building to
the High Temperature Incinerator Building of the Centralized Radiation
Waste Treatment Facility in order to stop power supply of Unit 3
accumulated water transfer pump as the preparation of the power source
reinforcement work.
- From 9:38 am on November 4 to 3:00 pm on November 8, we transferred the
accumulated water from the basement of the Unit 2 turbine building to
the High Temperature Incinerator Building of the Centralized Radiation
Waste Treatment Facility in order to stop power supply of Unit 2
accumulated water transfer pump as the preparation of the power source
reinforcement work.
www.tepco.co.jp

1 in 4 residents of towns around Fukushima plant don't want to return

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, Nov. 9, Kyodo

About one-fourth of residents of eight municipalities around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, site of an ongoing nuclear crisis, have no intention of returning to live in the area, Fukushima University said Tuesday.

According to preliminary results of a survey conducted by the university in September on about 13,460 households in the towns and villages of Futaba district in Fukushima Prefecture, the most common reason for not wanting to go back -- cited by 83 percent of respondents -- was decontaminating the area was difficult.

Other reasons included they cannot trust the central government's safety declaration level, cited by 66 percent, and they cannot expect the nuclear crisis to be resolved, expressed by 61 percent, showing many residents were not satisfied with the state's countermeasures. english.kyodonews.jp

Mary - did you get a working link posted? Is the version on that blog the one we should look at? I got that one to work. If it is another version let me know, I can have you email it to me to cut and paste it?