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Anybody see this report of a 11AM 2nd unit 3 explosion on March 15?
Time: 3/15-11:00AM Oct 27 report: enenews.com
Summary Report of RSMC Beijing on Fukushima Nuclear Accident Emergency Response, WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (United Nations), Oct. 27, 2011:At 11:00 (Japan Standard Time) JST on 15 March, Unit 3 explored [sic] again. At that time, due to the easterly winds and precipitation in and around Fukushima, the surrounding areas including Tokyo, Nagano, Sendai and other places detected high radiation, which matched well with the simulation results.
by artnuke 12/29/2011 11:45:30 PM

Animal lovers use duck tape to rescue ducklings | KTVB.COM Boise
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Jul 5, 2011 – BOISE -- A few animal lovers rescued a few ducklings that were trapped in a storm drain Tuesday night on Victory Road near Five Mile Road.
by artnuke 12/29/2011 11:45:32 PM

Wow. just wow. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 11:47:59 PM

Japan still hell bent on sending fish from Tohoku to developing countries.

Food purchases utilize ODA budget disaster area to aid quake reconstruction
23 hours 27 minutes 28 June 2011
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　Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government aid to developing countries products from earthquake affected areas of eastern Japan (ODA) budget for purchasing, embarked on a study aid for developing countries to apply. I also help plan the reconstruction of the ODA budget for overseas disaster area.

　According to the ODA budget for this year's allocation policy, you are considered for purchase, Iwate, Miyagi, processed marine products such as canned Fukushima prefectures. Also consider a priority to disaster areas to accept foreign trainees to learn and Agriculture and Fisheries, also hopes to eliminate the harmful rumor We hope.

　ODA to leverage technology to expand overseas and rail infrastructure. To sell overseas advanced seismic technology in Japan, to demonstrate that an emergency stop without the Tohoku Shinkansen derailed by this earthquake. Invest funds and human resources to the development of international legal systems. www.asahi.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 11:55:07 PM

fukushima-diary.com If i-131 is still showing up in the sewage after "cold shutdown" doesn't that mean that the plant is going to be producing I-131 pretty much until the cows come home? (American expression for forseeable future)
by artnuke 12/29/2011 11:55:14 PM

@artnuke there are some flaws in this logic. They are looking at sewage ash. If it was showing up in air filters and drinking water then I would panic. Look at the numbers in the source cited. One place with the highest i-131 has no cesium in their sewage. That is an indicator the source isn't Fukushima but is likely hospital discharge and patients in the area.
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 11:56:54 PM

Heard on Twitter. So please take them as jokes. I hope they are joking, but I have no reason to expect.
Someone who claims to have heard live in the radio broadcast on December 29 in Japan
Katsuya Okada was involved in a live radio show. A listener asked, "Why not you evacuates children from Fukushima?" Okada said, "Because it costs money ..." I heard the rumors but I do the I never expected myself.
Okada is a high-ranking official in the Democratic Party of Japan. The radio program in which Okada was supposed to utter those words here.
No money to evacuate the children, but a lot of money (2 billion yen) for TEPCO. Well at least Okada was, he said that, honest about it. No money. The Japanese government has no money (public debt to GDP ratio of over 200%), that people outside Japan may be familiar with the Japanese but not from within.
Another "heard of Twitter," the word alleged the mayor of Tomakomai City in Hokkaido, which is extremely willing to accept to burn debris in his city of Miyagi and Iwate disaster wins the cake for sheer rudeness and bad taste:
Someone who evacuated from Sendai, Miyagi in Tomakomai City:
The mayor of the city of Tomakomai is really ignorant and rude. When mothers who evacuated (to affected areas in Tomakomai) gave him a petition that does not burn the debris of the disaster, for the good health of children in the future, he had the nerve to say "I heard that the feces of evacuees spent more as you contaminate the environment with radiation." And he's the mayor.
Well, life is cheap, especially that of children in Japan. The country is finished as a nation.
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by MaryW 12/29/2011 11:58:02 PM

Chiba radiation map. Via twitter school kids are being instructed in gardening. Not a big deal unless your soil is full of this...
gunma.zamurai.jp
by lillymunster via Gunma.zamurai.jp 12/30/2011 12:20:06 AM

GoDaddy tries to backpeddle as customers leave news.cnet.com
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 12:37:27 AM

Nuclear Power Play: Ambition, Betrayal And The 'Ugly Underbelly' Of Energy Regulation www.huffingtonpost.com
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 12:49:37 AM

There are some familiar NRC names in the huffpo article that seem to have a long history of the things we have seen recently at the NRC..
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 1:04:12 AM

@lillymunster Don't you find the recent info on the web in a different tone than earlier. Meaning, I think a lot of this propaganda is being seen finally by the Japanese victims as just that. For months now they had hope of returning to their evacuated homes, but now maybe the trauma has subsided a little bit, and the radiation contamination is beginning to be realize. These people have been through a lot, not just the nuclear radiation fallout from the plant.
by MaryW 12/30/2011 1:09:13 AM

@MaryW also, if someone had to evacuate their home, they are less connected to news, the internet etc. They are dealing with having their life turned upside down. With time for the chaos to settle slightly they have been able to access what is going on and they are justifiably not happy. There were people in Japan calling thing for what they were all along but they were people who were very connected and informed. We always knew they couldn't keep up the lies forever and gradually time has run out on those early on lies. You can't fake reality, you can't hide an exploding nuclear reactor.
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 1:12:38 AM

Yamagata local government quit the daily fall-out measurement. December 29.2011. Yamagata is north to Fukushima ,where is one of the major rice harvesting area in Japan...Because they will have a lot of snow in this winter ,knowing the radiation level in snow must be very important...When they burn the radioactive debris ,the fall-out will be more radioactive. We needed to know the contamination level then. fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 12/30/2011 1:13:52 AM

@lillymunster Yes, your right. These people have been grieving lost loved ones, attempting to find shelter, food, just the basics of everyday living. And sitting around and listening to the news and getting the broad picture of the crisis, they did not have that luxury. They been trying to survive day by day, even with all these passing months.
by MaryW 12/30/2011 1:18:08 AM

Breaking news : 350,000 Bq/Kg from rice straw in Tochigi
Dec 29.2011. fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 12/30/2011 1:23:35 AM

This page has the text of the original NHK news story on the 350,000 bq rice straw. NHK has taken the story down but it shows up in google if you put the web address into a search.

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by lillymunster 12/30/2011 1:29:38 AM

Can web savvy moms change Japan? www.google.com
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 1:32:47 AM

Prosecutors drop case against actor Yamamoto, antinuclear protesters

SAGA, Japan, Dec. 28, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 12/30/2011 1:42:13 AM

Fukushima plant's backup generator failed in 1991

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant failed to take preventive measures after a backup generator was inundated by a leaking pipe 20 years ago.

Former employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Company told NHK that the problem occurred in October 1991.

They said water leaked from a pipe and entered the basement of the Number 1 reactor's turbine building. This caused the failure of one of the two backup generators.

A former engineer at the Fukushima plant said he told his superiors that tsunami could damage the emergency generators in the basement, as the turbine buildings are close to the sea.

TEPCO installed doors to block water leaks in the rooms hosting the backup generators, but did not move them above ground to avoid tsunami damage.

The plant's reactor cooling system failed when the emergency generators in the basement were inundated by the March 11th tsunami. All power sources were lost.

Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission says it will revise the safety guidelines for designing nuclear plants and require the installation of additional power sources.

Thursday, December 29, 2011 13:18 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 12/30/2011 1:44:02 AM

The type of anguish parents in Tohoku are going through en.rocketnews24.com
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 2:23:35 AM

NUCLEAR ACCIDENT INTERIM REPORT / Fears slowed SPEEDI info

The System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI)--the government computer system that projects the dispersal of radioactive substances--was designed to pinpoint which areas should be evacuated after a nuclear accident. "...(SPEEDI) it began projecting how much radioactive material would leak every hour, on the assumption that one becquerel was released per hour--a figure in line with Nuclear Safety Commission guidelines..." www.yomiuri.co.jp ------Gov’t projections assumed ONE becquerel per hour was leaking from Fukushima — Actual rate reached at least 10 Quadrillion times higher. Dec 29.2011. enenews.com 10,000,000,000,000,000 becquerels per hour vs. 1 becquerel per hour
by MaryW 12/30/2011 2:27:26 AM

This article on what Japan should do sounded good until he suggested the bust they cooperatives and move the US air base to Tohoku. news.businessweek.com
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 2:30:23 AM

'10,000,000,000,000,000 becquerels per hour vs. 1 becquerel per hour' docs.google.com
by MaryW 12/30/2011 2:31:40 AM

A lot of Japanese people have 'escaped' to the areas the US air base is projected to be built.
by MaryW 12/30/2011 2:33:45 AM

Yamagata Prefecture Government: Deposition (rain, snow, dust, etc.) The measurement of radioactive material contained in the research we conduct as the Ministry of Education. Reviewed for accuracy and measurement is made frequent measurements of drop every 24 hours is now taken up the minute ended at 9:00 am on December 27 2011. translate.google.com
by MaryW 12/30/2011 2:48:07 AM

Radiation Monitoring Information (Translated). Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology-Japan. translate.google.com
by MaryW 12/30/2011 2:58:37 AM

OK...this is the correct link for the Radiaiton Monitoring Information. Ministry of ECST-Japan www.pref.yamagata.jp
by MaryW 12/30/2011 3:01:08 AM

The letters submitted to the Japan Times are excellent :)
by Mid Valley 12/30/2011 3:03:09 AM

I can't get that link to work as it should. So just open the different links given in the Radiation Monitoring Information link. It really takes you to a variety of data information regarding all prefectures, on soil, water, air,etc.
by MaryW 12/30/2011 3:05:22 AM

Interesting comment on twitter. 90% of the nuclear reactors are shut off. Where are these supposed blackouts??
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 3:28:26 AM

TEPCO PRESS RELEASE UPDATES December 29.2011. UNIT #3: At 10:23 am on December 29, due to the declining tendency of the suction
pressure of the primary system circulating pump of the spent fuel pool
alternative cooling system of Unit 3, we stopped the pump and then
stopped cooling of the spent fuel pool temporarily to conduct flushing
of the intake side strainer of the pump (water temperature at the
stoppage: approx. 12.4°C). After that we conducted flushing and the
suction pressure of the pump recovered, therefore at 0:09 pm on the same
day, we restarted the pump and resumed cooling of the spent fuel pool
(water temperature at resuming: approx. 12.5°C). OTHERS: UNIT#1 - ... and 1 pm on December 29.
Other two temperature indicators were in gradual increases, but now the
two are stable.
The second: (Maximum) approx. 34.9°C at 9:00 pm on December 28 →
approx. 34.8°C at 1:00 pm on December 29.
The third: (Maximum) approx. 39.2°C at 1:00 am on December 29 →
approx. 39.2°C at 1:00 pm on December 29.
We are planning to identify cause with monitoring continuously. - At 10:12 am on December 29, TEPCO staff observed a water leakage from
the imperceptive leak in a hose around the concentrated water storage
area of water desalinations (reverse osmosis membrane) while on patrol.
We confirmed that filtrate water*, transferred with the hose from the
filtrate tank to the boiler tank of the evaporative concentration
apparatus, leaked from the water leakage. Just to be safe, we
investigated nuclide analysis for the water, and the nuclide was bellow
measurable limit. After that, we stopped transferring filtrate water,
and filled the hole with tape, and the leaked water is now an average of
a drop every two minutes. We are planning to replace the hose. The leaked
filtrate water will not expand around there because there are no street
gutters.
* filtrate water (freshwater): Water from Sakashita Dam www.tepco.co.jp

by MaryW 12/30/2011 3:29:19 AM

I like the, we are planning to replace the hose but taped it instead. Need a planning team to decide.
by MaryW 12/30/2011 3:34:31 AM

@MaryW EX-SKF explained why so many holes in these plastic hoses. Weeds. Weeds were growing up and poking holes in the hoses.
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 3:40:20 AM

@lillymunster I hope the problem is in all the manuals under 'weeds' in the index for all the nuclear power plants in the world. Or maybe 'weed control at nuke plants' :)
by MaryW 12/30/2011 3:42:51 AM

Seals with damaged flippers and hair loss 'are being killed by radiation from Fukushima plant', biologists warn

www.dailymail.co.uk This is bad journalism.
by MaryW 12/30/2011 3:45:22 AM

Editorial: Gov't should promote renewable energy as myth of nuclear power's cheapness shattered mdn.mainichi.jp
by lillymunster 12/30/2011 3:54:19 AM

FUKUSHIMA: Public health Fallout from Japanese Quake
“Culture of cover-up” and inadequate cleanup. Japanese people exposed to “unconscionable” health risks

by Canadian Medical Association Journal
This is a good article to read. www.globalresearch.ca
by MaryW 12/30/2011 3:59:59 AM

What To Do In Case Of A Nuclear Accident – Learning from Fukushima. -Most people really have little clue about what they can do in case of a nuclear accident. -I think such information should be widely distributed in all countries that use nuclear power or weapons, so that in the even of an emergency, the human damage may be as minimal as possible. -So here is what I have found out. Most of this information is from information shared by various people who went through these measures or official instructions. It you have something to add, please comment. aamjanata.com(Life+as+I+find+it)&utm_content=Google+Reader
by MaryW 12/30/2011 4:07:56 AM

New Arnie: vimeo.com
by Ian 12/30/2011 4:44:42 AM

Russia submerges nuclear submarine to douse blaze www.reuters.com
by Mid Valley 12/30/2011 4:54:25 AM

FYI sm_moss just tweeted this: Blizzards, high waves may hit northern Japan: weather agency. Don't have scrip, so I don't know how badly this might affect Fuku...
by M.I.A. 12/30/2011 4:56:42 AM