Japan Earthquake

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The Slovenia plant is near the Austria border.
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:25:35 PM

Radioactive particle were first detected earlier this month...by the State Office for Nuclear Safety (SONS), of the Czech Republic. (I think here is where we should focus..Czech plant?) wireupdate.com
by MaryW 11/11/2011 3:28:55 PM

Hmm both the Czechs and Austria say south east source
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:31:53 PM

Are there any good jet stream maps out there that could confirm a NW wind movement?
by wrshpr 11/11/2011 3:32:39 PM

Look for air/wind or navigation maps. Majj or Thunder, maybe AudiTek might know good sources
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:33:36 PM

Jet stream shows currently weather pushing from the north and slightly to the east
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:38:13 PM

eastern winds prevailing in austria and czechia. :=
by Edano 11/11/2011 3:39:08 PM

@lillymunster Winds direction within the last 8 day to current
by MaryW 11/11/2011 3:39:33 PM

we mostly have eastern winds in central europe all year long. warm in summer, cold in winter.
by Edano 11/11/2011 3:44:01 PM

I can't find any ukraine geiger stations
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:44:22 PM

www.oe24.at

since thursday high levels measured in austria, but levels in denmark and sweden are even higher.
by Edano 11/11/2011 3:50:06 PM

Wasn;t it the Scandanavian radnet that first discovered Chernobyl?
by wrshpr 11/11/2011 3:51:34 PM

how could xray equipment create that big of a dispersal
?
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:53:17 PM

i think eastern europe must be the scource, chechia, ukraine or belarus.
by Edano 11/11/2011 3:55:58 PM

Are you hearing anything about higher levels in Germany? Looking at their network did
n't show increases
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:56:50 PM

"Wohl unabhängig davon, hatte es im umstrittenen Atomkraftwerk Temelin am Dienstag eine Panne gegeben. Die Leistung des ersten Blocks wurde automatisch zurückgefahren, weil es Probleme mit einer Umwälzpumpe gegeben hatte" www.heise.de
an incident in temelin, czechia, on tuesday.
by Edano 11/11/2011 3:57:10 PM

Temelin- a technical glitch at unit 1 of Czech utility CEZ's nuclear Temelin power plant on Tuesday limited the block's production to 50% of capacity. Nov 09-source, Reuters Africa. CEZ starts up Dukovany unit after 78-day refueling. Nov 10.2011. www.reuters.com
by MaryW 11/11/2011 3:57:19 PM

@lillymunster north east germany has higher levels. but i can't smell anything. ;)
by Edano 11/11/2011 3:57:53 PM

Added our new information and updated the main article, retweeted it.
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 3:58:56 PM

it is not top news here, so i think it is not really dangerous. you know we are very sensitive....
by Edano 11/11/2011 4:01:42 PM

@Edano It sounds like the levels are low but detectible but how widespread it is worries me. Something disbursed enough of this to show up over half of Europe so there was original quantity and a massive dispersal. Just good it isn't high levels.
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 4:07:15 PM

J-Village: The View from Inside blogs.wsj.com
by Panserbjorne9 11/11/2011 4:13:15 PM

Is Post-Fukushima Japan Safe for Tourists? www.time.com
by Panserbjorne9 11/11/2011 4:13:39 PM

I posted our gathered information as a link to the group website on the IAEA facebook page. Why are they not giving people more information. It is clearly out there, we are finding it in European news articles...
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 4:16:48 PM

So if this source is purely medical iodine 131, what source could spew that much all at once? I am not familiar with how they create I-131 for medical use. With the short half life, how is it created/captured and delivered?
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 4:41:39 PM

I am not expert, but I can't see how purely medical iodine would be in sufficient quantity to be in such high concerntrations in Scandanavia. Besides, it is one thing to cover up something such as at Temelin, but wouldn't a medical supply company or hospital really be under pressure to report such a release? (Unless it was a by-product of a hospital or factory in the Turkey quakes). You would have to think that they would know about it, because you would have to think that anywhere that much radioactive medical supplies are stored, there would have to be dectection equipment, etc.
by wrshpr 11/11/2011 4:53:05 PM

@lillymunster, what's the link to the gathered info? I'm trying to catch up, sounds like a suspected incident in Scandanavia.
by Ian 11/11/2011 4:56:43 PM

@Ian link to the info. The incident isn't in Scandanavia, suspected to be in Ukraine or Belarus www.simplyinfo.org
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 4:58:20 PM

@wrshpr I am doing some looking. I think the only way to have that much medical 1-131 to do this would be a factory that makes I-131 for medical and scientific use. So possibly a medical reactor facility like the one in Canada
by lillymunster 11/11/2011 4:59:17 PM

You need a reactor to make I-131. From this wiki en.wikipedia.org : "The low-cost availability of I-131, in turn, is due to the relative ease of creating I-131 by neutron bombardment of natural tellurium in a nuclear reactor, then separating I-131 out by various simple methods (i.e., heating to drive off the volatile iodine). "
by Peter 11/11/2011 5:00:50 PM