Japan Earthquake

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I didn't know UPI was owned by them. Now some odd news wire stories make sense :-)
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 3:27:34 PM

@lillymunster Sheesh, that's scary. Yeah, and the article is being picked up by lots of newspapers/blogs
by M.I.A. 12/31/2011 3:27:41 PM

Happy New Year, scribblers!
by M.I.A. 12/31/2011 3:28:52 PM

Govt says they will start buying tainted rice this month. mdn.mainichi.jp

I hope so, people are out of cash
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 3:30:19 PM

There's starting to be a subset of environmentalists who call themselves (or are called?) fission environmentalists. They see no option but to use nukes to forstall global warming
by M.I.A. 12/31/2011 3:30:22 PM

@M.I.A. There was some thought among environmentalists that nukes played a role. The nuclear industry has started to greenwash things under the guise of environmentalism. Now it is hard to tell what is honest opinion and what is greenwashed industry junk. It makes it so hard to sort anything out.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 3:32:04 PM

I'd like to believe we humans can come up with better solutions. Global warming vs. nuke catastrophe/contamination is no choice
by M.I.A. 12/31/2011 3:34:27 PM

Mitsui may loan to TEPCO but only if they make drastic changes www.bloomberg.com
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 3:34:51 PM

@M.I.A. indeed.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 3:35:02 PM

quake in Niigita
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 3:47:21 PM

Several concerns over Seabrook Station license. Dec 31.2011 ".... Faculty( nuke plant) feedback disclosed that their initial concern would be their family... We found it shocking to learn that faculty members at our boy's boarding school were required to evacuate the 300 students. In what? The school had two, 12-passenger vans." www.seacoastonline.com
by MaryW 12/31/2011 3:48:13 PM

Twitter is light on news today, lots of new years wishes though.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 3:52:02 PM

LOW RADIATION becomes HIGH RADIATION when ingested with food:

BELARUS: Most Chernobyl irradiated country in the World.

Rosa Goncharova’s geneticist. In the Belarusian capital Minsk, she directs the laboratory of the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences. For decades, the research professor and her team investigated the effects of long-lasting radioactive low-level radiation. Rosa Gonchrova summarizes the results of their studies (in german):

www.hr-online.de
by MaryW 12/31/2011 4:00:44 PM

putting together images for end of the year article and I had not seen this one before. You see the white wave hitting the city. Look to the left. OMG! I can't even imagine what that was like to see in person.

griffyclan007.files.wordpress.com
by lillymunster via Griffyclan007.files.wordpress 12/31/2011 4:12:28 PM

@lillymunster that looks like a drawing not a photo
by Cryptococcus 12/31/2011 4:21:12 PM

@lillymunster , this pic can't be true.
by Peter 12/31/2011 4:22:02 PM

I can't find duplicates of it. Online on one sight. I would think the newswires would have grabbed this one. Maybe it is altered?
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 4:30:44 PM

End of the year post. Let me know if there is something I should add to it www.simplyinfo.org
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 4:33:31 PM

@lillymunster , I believe crypto is right in that the picture represents a mixed-methods artist's impression. On arrival the giant wave further out would be as high as the twenty-story skyscraper on the coast. The waves were high, but not that high.
by Peter 12/31/2011 4:48:26 PM

@lillymunster , real photographs like the one of the tsunami you picked for the sum-up often strike me much more profoundly than an artist's impression, because they reflect the mundane element in such disaster. You uncovered so many important details about this disaster, showing people how they globally relate. Simplyinfo has helped people understand that we do not live in a vacuum. I wish everyone the best for the New Year, :)
by Peter 12/31/2011 5:00:10 PM

Check out these images of SFP4 that I've never seen before enenews.com They were released as videos by Tepco on Nov 11 www.tepco.co.jp but appear to have been retracted www.tepco.co.jp or at least I can't see them. Of note is the lone assembly that appears to have a bent handle.
by Ian 12/31/2011 5:02:58 PM

lol the tsunami in that pic must have >50m, not just 15 .... i guess the big second wave is photoshopped :)
by Edano 12/31/2011 5:26:43 PM

@Ian The lone fuel assembly looks to be there on purpose and looks to be in a boron sleeve. Why it is isolated I don't know. Dean might have an idea what would cause them to put an assembly away from the others.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 5:34:56 PM

Looking back on the last nine months, tepco only accomplished to improvise a semi-closed cooling loop for the reactors and the sfps. If only one of the sfps loses its coolant, tepco shall have to deal with melting fuel rods again, if I am not mistaken. The plant may be off the news, but the situation is far from resolved.
by Peter 12/31/2011 6:02:06 PM

@Peter @Peter some report estimated they would have 15 hours to restore cooling before problems
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 6:07:30 PM

Giant solar farms approved for California www.forbes.com
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 6:18:38 PM

@lillymunster , I wonder whether it would really take fifteen hours for the rods to heat up enough to melt after a sudden loss of all water. At least four reactor buildings were compromised by the first quake and the ensuing hydrogen explosions. Another severe quake could break a pool open and drain its water in a jiffy.
by Peter 12/31/2011 6:37:04 PM

@Peter I think that was based only on losing the ability to pump in coolant. Loss of current water would of course speed things up.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 6:49:24 PM

@lillymunster , yesterday Ira Flatow raised the Fukushima question during Talk of the Nation, Science Friday, and none of the science journalist guests could add much other than cooling has been stabilized and that the issue had left the media.
by Peter 12/31/2011 6:56:32 PM

Here is the link to Science Friday's Year in Review: Science Stories of 2011 www.sciencefriday.com
by Peter 12/31/2011 7:12:00 PM

54% of N-zone evacuees have yet to return www.yomiuri.co.jp
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 7:47:40 PM

@Peter maybe we need to send Sci Fri some emails. :-)
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 7:48:05 PM

Breaking news : Radioactive Debris Map
Posted by Mochizuki on December 31st, 2011 · A citizen’s group made a radioactive debris map. (link) one-world.happy-net.jp

Hosono minister of environment stated he is negotiating with local governments without public announcement not to cause a “panic”.

Whether they announce it or not ,they may secretly accept radioactive debris for money and ignorantly incinerate them.

None of the Japanese incineration facility has proper filter for radiation ,but rare gas radionuclide such as xenon can not be filtered whatever they use. The conclusion therefore is ,”evacuate ” right now.

fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 12/31/2011 8:19:51 PM

Fukushima CESIUM BEEF! Western Japanese meat distributer buys bunch of cheap Fukushima cattle
Posted by Mochizuki on December 31st, 2011
A meat distributer in Nishinomiya Hyogo bought 192 cesium beef from Fukushima. ... The area distribution center in Nishinomiya accepted 219 Fukushima cattle from 311 to July in total.
Most of them are assumed to be for this cesium distributer. fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 12/31/2011 8:24:02 PM

Radiation tainted milk for sale! 20 Bq/kg from Iwate Milk. December 31.2011. Iwate local government measures radiation in the milk constantly.

From their research on 12/26 they measured 20 Bq/Kg from the milk of Tono.

Cs-134: 8.6 Bq/Kg
Cs-137: 12.9 Bq/Kg

Total: 21.5 Bq/Kg

Because it’s under the safety limit they are going to sell it in the market. fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 12/31/2011 8:36:54 PM

No health risk related to airborne traces of iodine-131 from Hungary
12/12/2011 In an information notice published in French on November 15 2011, IRSN reported that it had detected traces of iodine-131 in the form of airborne particles. The traces were detected in a number of samples taken by aerosol monitoring stations in the IRSN OPERA-Air network. The results of sampling measurements taken over the first ten days of November were around a few microbecquerels per cubic meter of air (µBq/m3). These values are close to the detection limits of the most effective measuring methods. Although iodine-131 is not normally found in the air throughout the country, its presence did not give any cause for concern for the population's health or the environment.

It was detected in France following similar detection reports in various countries in central and northern Europe. As the reasons for this radioactive pollution were unknown, IRSN performed trajectory calculations to try to locate the origin of the air masses transporting the iodine-131. www.irsn.fr
by MaryW edited by lillymunster 12/31/2011 8:41:46 PM

Guy uses new technology to bring the world together... in 1909 www.dailymail.co.uk
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 8:42:01 PM

@lillymunster Did you see my last post? Europe STILL detecting iodine-131!!
by MaryW 12/31/2011 8:42:52 PM

@MaryW "The results of sampling measurements taken over the first ten days of November" That was during the leak at the isotope lab.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 8:44:18 PM

I have not looked at the EU rad networks to see where levels are today but the article doesn't seem to say it is still going?
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 8:46:11 PM

According to the HAEA, the release is thought to have begun on September 8, 2011, with a period of increased intensity on Iodine-131: October 12-14. The authority stated, however, that the quantity of iodine-131 released over the period was below the institute's authorized annual radioactive release limit. The cause of the release has yet to be determined and is still under investigation.

The information notice of November 30 2011 provides an update of measurement results in France, together with IRSN's trajectory analysis of the air masses that explain the iodine-131 traces observed in Europe. Based on currently available technical data, IRSN also estimated the radiological impact of this radioactive release in the near field, in other words in the Budapest region. www.irsn.fr
by MaryW 12/31/2011 8:46:29 PM

@MaryW Budapest is where the isotope reactor is.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 8:49:47 PM

Do you know offhand what date the shut off the reactor in Budapest?
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 8:55:12 PM

Weird. Our old Post says Nov 17 was the shut off. The EUDEP station shows two points after Nov 20 with no data/radiation. Then it continues on at 120-160 as it did from Sept to Nov.
by lillymunster 12/31/2011 8:57:19 PM