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Japan Fukushima Daini Npp 26.83 kmby Edano 11/23/2011 7:52:06 PM
Is it a 5.9 or a 4?by lillymunster 11/23/2011 7:53:36 PM- 5.9 magnitude, 4 japanese intensity scale (JMA Seismic Intensity) www.jma.go.jpby Edano 11/23/2011 7:54:13 PM
greetings to all... therapy going good..by dean 11/23/2011 8:56:17 PM- Hi Dean!by lillymunster 11/23/2011 9:13:56 PM
- Chinese blogger invited to promote tours to Japan
A popular blogger from China is visiting a city in central Japan to help promote the area and attract Chinese tourists.
Song Jun arrived in Japan on Monday. Officials from the prefectures of Yamanashi, Kanagawa and Shizuoka invited him. Song runs a blog that boasts about 10-million visitors annually. The prefectures want him to write about their top spots because the number of Chinese tourists fell sharply after Japan's March 11th disaster.
Local people guided Song as he visited Koshu in Yamanashi Prefecture. The destinations included a disused railway tunnel that was built more than 100 years ago. Song took pictures and asked questions about the brick walls, which are tainted with soot from locomotives.
Koshu is known for its vineyards. So, Song also visited another old tunnel that is used to store more than 600,000 bottles of locally produced wine. The tunnel provides stable temperatures and humidity. Song was given a bottle of wine before he left.
Song said he will write articles about the region on his blog and tell Chinese people Japan is a safe and wonderful tourist destination.
Song will visit a hot spring resort in Hakone, Kanagawa on Thursday.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 22:42 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 11/23/2011 9:39:17 PM - Symposium on radiation exposure held in Hiroshima
International nuclear experts are discussing ways to promote medical research and treatment for radiation exposure.
They opened a two-day symposium on Wednesday in Hiroshima. It is the first meeting of its kind jointly sponsored by Hiroshima Prefecture, medical organizations, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
One of the speakers was Fukushima Medical University Professor Seiji Yasumura. He is in charge of conducting a survey on the health of residents in Fukushima Prefecture following the nuclear disaster there.
Professor Yasumura said the current budget for his study is not sufficient because of the time needed to do the work and the fact that few people fill out the surveys that help him estimate levels of radiation exposure.
IAEA Deputy Director General Daud Mohamad said the agency will provide all possible support to Fukushima Prefecture if requested.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 22:18 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 11/23/2011 9:41:45 PM - @Edano most people seem to consider the survey and study to be of no benefit to them personally and a type of lab experiment. They are surprised nobody wants to willingly play along?by lillymunster 11/23/2011 9:43:23 PM
- @lillymunster i guess the few filled out papers are manipulated.by Edano 11/23/2011 9:48:03 PM
- @Edano Or thought they were helping, or felt obligatedby lillymunster 11/23/2011 9:48:42 PM
- More on Busby www.guardian.co.ukby lillymunster 11/23/2011 10:16:06 PM
@Edano They don't have to be manipulated. The data cannot be of scientific significance if only a few people complete the surveys. That's the biggest problem with radiation exposure studies. None of them has significant scientific data. It is hard to draw conclusions without sufficient reliable data. That's why radiation exposure at low doses is a grey area; and that's why scientific support to any of the models out there, be it the LNT model, the threshold model, the hormetic principle, etc. is limited, particularly for low doses over a long period of time. We would need a wealth of serious nuclear accidents around the world to be able to collect enough data. Hopefully, we won't.by Pedro Jesus 11/23/2011 10:17:15 PM- From the Busby article:
When I phoned Busby to ask him some questions about these issues, his responses were less than enlightening. He began as follows: "You can f**k off frankly."by lillymunster 11/23/2011 10:23:11 PM 
73.20 what?!!! (5.9 earthquake story today) www.cbsnews.comby Cryptococcus 11/23/2011 10:46:06 PM- @Cryptococcus IIRC the media recorded in the microsieverts outside the plant. So that is probably a microsievert reading.by lillymunster 11/23/2011 10:55:05 PM
- @lillymunster thanks! So: 50 mSv = annual allowed dose (excluding natural background radiation) permitted for U.S. workers; and 100 mSv = lowest one year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk. Seems high to me. reference exposure levels: houseoffoust.comby Cryptococcus 11/23/2011 11:01:31 PM
- mSv = millisieverts uSv=microsievertsby lillymunster 11/23/2011 11:07:11 PM
- ah. Thx is so confusing..argh.by Cryptococcus 11/23/2011 11:12:41 PM
- @Cryptococcus it was rather out of contextby lillymunster 11/23/2011 11:18:59 PM
@Edano If it was a study about any medicine, the number of "subjects" would exceed the prescriptions. When a study of low level radiation exposure occurs, no one wants to participate. The study would result in Early Diagnoses of any adverse effect (if found) and add to our general knowledge of rad effects.by RBeaner 11/23/2011 11:23:05 PM
Just thought I'd throw in some old news from March 11th which includes a couple videos of the smoking Fuka plant hours after the quake and tsunami hit the plant. www.ctv.ca hope link works!by MaryW 11/23/2011 11:41:57 PM- Veenie tweeted that the Japan quake today was upgraded to a 6.1by lillymunster 11/24/2011 12:15:22 AM
- @RBeaner Low dose, long term radiation exposure studies have been conducted around the world but the conclusions are usually subject to controversy. I'm sure you're aware of the Ramsar paradox, for example.by Pedro Jesus 11/24/2011 12:17:57 AM
- bumpby lillymunster 11/24/2011 2:45:30 AM
- Since there isn't any news today, here is Matt Alt's Tokyo's really really ninja hideouts. www.cnngo.comby lillymunster 11/24/2011 2:49:31 AM
- Japan to make stricter food standards for baby food, maybe in a year www.sankeibiz.jpby lillymunster 11/24/2011 4:01:03 AM
- nite all please give the page a bump when you stop byby lillymunster 11/24/2011 4:05:45 AM
- @All Happy Thanksgiving, all ye who celebrate it and all who don't! An expose of Busby: junksciencewatch.wordpress.comby M.I.A. 11/24/2011 4:19:45 AM
Keeping' the home fires burnin'.by Panserbjorne9 11/24/2011 5:34:55 AM- Bumpitybumpby Panserbjorne9 11/24/2011 6:54:02 AM
bumpqmudby Mid Valley 11/24/2011 7:43:29 AM- bump itby donnerta 11/24/2011 7:48:40 AM
- a lump of
bumpby M.I.A. 11/24/2011 9:06:00 AM - UNIT 6:: On November 23, we finished all of this clean up work. At around 5:00 pm
on the same day, when we restarted pump of auxiliary cooling sea water
system (A) which was stopped due to the work, it was shut down
automatically right after it was restarted. Currently the cause is under
investigation. Reactor water and Spent Fuel Pool are planned to be cooled
alternatively by pump of residual heat removal system (A) until the pump
is recovered. The rise of increase in temperature of reactor water is
about 1.2°C/h and spent fuel pool is about 0.3°C/h and we think there are
no problems on these values.
www.tepco.co.jpby M.I.A. 11/24/2011 9:48:48 AM - Absolutely butt-nothing works at that plant> Tepco needs to condemn unit 5 and 6, too.by M.I.A. 11/24/2011 9:50:52 AM
- ooops. news.by Edano 11/24/2011 10:15:51 AM
- Gov't to mull free medical care for young people in Fukushima
TOKYO, Nov. 24, Kyodo
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Thursday he is considering making medical care free for people aged 18 and younger in Fukushima Prefecture, which has been badly affected by a nuclear disaster.
''There are many concerns to address (over the Fukushima nuclear crisis) but taking care of (people's) health takes top priority,'' Noda told Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato during their meeting, the outset of which was open to the press.
Noda, who met Sato at his office in Tokyo, made the remark in response to a list of requests submitted by Sato. english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 11/24/2011 10:16:12 AM - Japan plans to set special radiation limit for infant food
TOKYO, Nov. 24, Kyodo
Japan's health ministry on Thursday proposed categorizing food and drink products in four groups, including one for infant foods, in setting tougher radiation standard levels.
While the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has been working to lower the upper limit on radioactive cesium exposure to 1 millisievert per year from the current provisional level of 5 millisieverts, it has decided to give special consideration to infants who are more vulnerable to radiation than older people.
The other three categories are ordinary food, milk and drinking water. Most foods will be categorized as ordinary food and be put under unified supervision, while milk, drinking water and infant foods, including powdered milk and baby foods, will be examined separately. english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 11/24/2011 10:17:10 AM - by Edano 11/24/2011 10:17:43 AM
english.kyodonews.jp
Special chairs to be presented to babies born on disaster day in Tohoku
SAPPORO, Nov. 24, Kyodo
A project is under way to give a ''one-and-only chair in the world'' to each baby born on March 11 in Iwate, Miyagi or Fukushima prefectures, severely hit that day by the quake and tsunami disasters.
A group led by Kenichi Isoda, the former vice governor of Hokkaido and now guest professor of Asahikawa University, unveiled the plan earlier this week to give the chairs marked with the baby's name, birth date ''March 11, 2011'' and the message ''Be tough toward the future.''
''We want people in local communities to support babies to grow tough, seeing that they received many lives on the day when numerous lives were lost,'' Isoda said.
The chair, 40 centimeters high and 25 centimeters wide, was designed by Noriyuki Nakao, associate professor of Tokai University, and made with Hokkaido-grown oak by a furniture studio in the northernmost Japanese main island.
The team, which has presented chairs to 360 babies in Hokkaido since 2006, plans to give chairs to another 104 babies by the end of the year.
==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jpby Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 11/24/2011 10:19:43 AM- what ???? ehmmm,okay.... why not ?by Edano 11/24/2011 10:20:42 AM
- a tattoo on the shoulder would be better, no ?by Edano 11/24/2011 10:21:57 AM
english.kyodonews.jp
Radiation decontamination efforts in Fukushima
An employee of a local agricultural association in nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima strips bark of an apple tree in an attempt to remove radioactive materials on fruit trees in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 23, 2011. Radiation levels in the tree trunks were lowered by as much as more than 80 percent through experimental efforts to recover the sale of fruit produce from the prefecture. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jpby Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 11/24/2011 10:24:04 AM- China eases restrictions on Japanese food imports
BEIJING, Nov. 24, Kyodo
China will partially ease restrictions on Japanese food imports that were imposed in the wake of the nuclear accident in northeastern Japan that followed the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing said Thursday.
The easing covers most products including processed foods, seasonings and sake. Restrictions will stay in place on perishables and other items, which, however, are only in small quantities.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine told the embassy China will resume imports of Japanese farm and food products from 37 of Japan's 47 prefectures provided the Japanese government attaches documents noting the place of origin of the products. english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 11/24/2011 10:25:22 AM www.livestream.com library and widgets
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