Japan Earthquake

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@ All, Off to work, Take care
by Shadow 1/9/2012 3:09:51 PM

@lillymunster It does, and the question arises...is this from the Jan quake or has this been ongoing since 3/11? I remember the JNN camera swinging over to Fuku II showing smoke coming from one of the buildings months ago. Think I got that posted to youtube too. As I recall, there were several fires there.
by Deb 1/9/2012 3:10:14 PM

@Shadow have a good day!
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 3:13:25 PM

@Deb Ex-SKF remembered a working also tweeting that, that Daini has smoke rolling out. Now I wonder what went on at Daini we didn't hear about
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 3:14:13 PM

From March 30th articles.cnn.com Power company says Smoke spotted at another nuclear plant
by Deb 1/9/2012 3:20:12 PM

This says smoke from turbine buildings Daini March 30
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 3:21:18 PM

Tokyo Electric sees rise in radiation at Fukushima Daini plant, March 14th www.reuters.com
by Deb 1/9/2012 3:21:47 PM

web article about the urine finding and Daini finding. Thanks for everyone digging these up! www.simplyinfo.org
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 3:27:23 PM

@lilly, ready for the push of that article?
by Mid Valley 1/9/2012 3:28:57 PM

@Mid Valley yes
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 3:30:01 PM

back in a bit, have to take the pup to the doc.
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 3:32:54 PM

My head just cannot wrap around the possibility of a 4th reactor meltdown that could be "hidden" from the world. TEPCO could claim the radiation is from Daichii, and with the obvious damage there, no one would question or doubt them. But...could they control the people working at that plant to keep this secret? Seriously, IMO they would have to "bury the bodies" to keep this from going public. This is all very overwhelming :(
by Deb 1/9/2012 3:44:48 PM

LIVE meeting on Fukushima lessons from Chernobyl NOW www.ustream.tv
by Deb 1/9/2012 3:59:25 PM

As Fukushima Cleanup Begins, Long-term Impacts are Weighed
e360.yale.edu
by Panserbjorne9 1/9/2012 4:32:32 PM

@Deb I don't think they could have silenced everyone to not tell if something really drastic happened like a melt down at Daini. There are enough workers and friends of workers willing to say something. Going back through Daini reports from TEPCO might give some hints what happened. I know there were a few odd reports from Daini but they were things like damaged equipment and water still stuck in buildings. Maybe they found the containment damage when they were doing inspections later last summer? They did have silly fantasies about restarting Daini for a while.

I probably should add that who knows what else TEPCO has been lying about so there could be other scary things we don't know yet.
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 4:52:03 PM

On March 12 all 4 units at Daini were vented after their suppression chambers lost function when temps went over 100c in each one. The units were all successfully vented releasing radiation into the air and continued on to cold shutdown temperatures. www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 5:07:45 PM

Unit 1 Daini on March 12. This is the only unit listed as having high containment pressure:

At 6:08pm, we announced the increase in reactor containment vessel
pressure, assumed to be due to leakage of reactor coolant. However, we
do not believe there is leakage of reactor coolant in the containment
vessel at this moment. www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 5:11:22 PM

There was a small fire at Daini on March 11.

-At the service facility(not nuclear facilities) of the Fukushima
Daini Nuclear Power Station, a small fire temporarily occurred but
was extinguished at 4:07 pm. www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 5:16:28 PM

Renewal after nuclear disaster impossible without sound foundations mdn.mainichi.jp
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 6:12:42 PM

N-zones may keep 25,000 from home www.yomiuri.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 6:17:31 PM

Nuclear nomads: A look at the subcontracted heroes.

The Fukushima 50. Or -- perhaps more accurately -- the Fukushima 18,000.

www.thebulletin.org
by VesaVA 1/9/2012 6:24:24 PM

I just finally got around to reading this article. CRMS has set up whole body counter machines so people can test themselves in Fukushima City. nuclearfreeplanet.org
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 6:30:56 PM

Fukushima nuclear cleanup could create its own environmental disaster www.guardian.co.uk
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 8:06:31 PM

Jake Adelstein has an interesting take on the Yakuza crackdown www.guardian.co.uk
by lillymunster 1/9/2012 8:13:04 PM

TEPCO did some landscaping and pruned all the overgrown shrubs away from the broken walkway www.tsunamioftears.com
by deb via Tsunamioftears 1/9/2012 10:32:54 PM

Interesting comparison between right after 3/11 and now. Is this the radiation from Japan finally working its way around the globe or another problem. (USA testing or broken nuke)
www.tsunamioftears.com
www.tsunamioftears.com
by deb via Tsunamioftears 1/9/2012 10:42:04 PM

Interesting comparison between right after 3/11 and now. Is this the radiation from Japan finally working its way around the globe or another problem. (USA testing or broken nuke)
www.tsunamioftears.com
www.tsunamioftears.com
by deb via Tsunamioftears 1/9/2012 10:42:05 PM

Monju reactor operator paid 109 mil. yen in fees to related bodies

TOKYO, Jan. 10, Kyodo

The state-run operator of Japan's Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor paid a total of 109 million yen in 2009 to bodies linked to it as ''membership fees,'' raising concern about the use of taxpayers' money for the entity, a ruling party panel found Monday.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, provided the money between April and September in 2009 to the bodies, at some of which former ministry and agency officials had landed cozy postretirement jobs.

In fiscal 2009, the operator of the Monju reactor received around 185 billion yen in state subsidies, part of which was financed by a tax to promote the development of power resources that is charged on top of utility charges paid by households. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 1/9/2012 11:35:01 PM

@deb That is really weird. Either Corvallis had some problems with their monitor or something is higher now than the spring. That flatline in the earlier chart seems odd. What would be the next closest station to Corvallis north or south?
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 12:16:12 AM

@deb, what about now to this time last year? Fukushima wouldn't be having an effect now, but was measured in the US in March / April.
by Ian 1/10/2012 12:22:27 AM

Both Gamma and Beta meters for Corvallis were flat lined from May 16 to June 10. The gamma for Spring and the Gamma now for Corvallis look about the same with the exception of the flatline period. The beta for Corvallis over the spring was between 0-100 cpm. Corvallis now is 0-300.

Either Corvallis is having more radiation now than in spring or the beta meter was malfunctioning. Between these two pages July & August for Corvallis is missing. Those two months could hold clues for the difference in readings.

Radnet spring 2011 www.epa.gov
Corvallis Sept to now blog.alexanderhiggins.com
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 12:29:11 AM

I don't know how to display it but looking at EPA raw numbers the highest CPM in July-Sept was 53 cpm

For Sept 2011 to today the CPM are in the 50's to 300 CPM.

Corvallis for Mar 01, 2011 to July 2011 had zero records using this EPA data page: cdxnode64.epa.gov

Also shows O records for Mar-July 2010
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 12:38:28 AM

EPA's new radnet interface to pull data is an abomination. :-(
I can't get any quarterly testing to pull up at all on regular radnet.
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 12:46:38 AM

@lillymunster, that epa link get's me a dead page saying: "The connection was interrupted" Probably a temporary en-route server error.
by Ian 1/10/2012 12:53:25 AM

@Ian it could be missing a piece of the request.
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 12:54:03 AM

@lillymunster, the epa's homepage is also dead for me. What we need is pre-Fuku EPA graphs. I always see much being made of how surprisingly high some spikes are on an epa-city graph, but no context is given as to what's the pre-Fuku norm. Most people don't appreciate the radioactivity of normal radon rain washout. Rains in some places can be surprisingly hot on a regular basis due to atmospheric washout of radon and it progeny.
by Ian 1/10/2012 1:03:26 AM

@Ian that is what I was originally after and no joy, can't get things to work.
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 1:04:18 AM

Japan govt pushing for national emergency law in case of influenza that would suspend the right to assemble, force people to stay home. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 1:21:37 AM

@lillymunster, is it true that RadNet was shut down? Was it temporary? Given I've seen several EPA RadNet graphs for cities dated after the shut-down claim, like the current ones just posted here, any idea in what sense is or was RadNet ever 'shut down'?
by Ian 1/10/2012 1:23:33 AM

Villagers united as first waste arrives. Jan 09.2012. Banner-carrying villagers opposed to a new low level nuclear waste site have demonstrated against the arrival of the first consignments in the north of the county.

More than 100 residents marched through King’s Cliffe on Saturday to voice their concern at the action being taken by waste firm Augean.

It followed the company’s announcement on Thursday that it had started receiving low level radioactive waste at its site close to the village.

Permission was given for the waste to be disposed of at the site following a public inquiry.

A legal challenge by protesters is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on January 17.
www.northantset.co.uk
by MaryW 1/10/2012 1:34:12 AM

@Ian It appears to still be operating, the live stations though many of them have the beta shut off. They have completely ceased doing bi-weekly and quarterly substance testing like they claim they are supposed to or if they are, they are not publishing the data.
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 1:39:19 AM

Labor Dept.'s Jan. 18 session to explain expanded 'Special Exposure Cohort' for Y-12 workers, help file compensation claims
I've written a couple of times about the recently expanded "Special Exposure Cohort" for Y-12 workers, which makes it easier for sick nuclear workers or their survivors to collect claims from a federal compensation program. The U.S. Labor Department will host a day-long session (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Jan. 18 at the Doubletree Hotel on Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge. The purpose will be to discuss the new designation, which includes Y-12 employees from 1948-1957, and help people file claims or schedule appointments.
If workers are declared part of an SEC and have one of the 22 specified cancers under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness and Compensation Program... blogs.knoxnews.com
by MaryW 1/10/2012 1:40:06 AM

@lillymunster. and it's the food testing that's the most relevant. However low but non-zero the rain fallout is, could ultimately bio-accumulate, for example in California-grown produce or dairy products. But I wonder if they always have tested food non-stop for years. You might/hope think so.
by Ian 1/10/2012 1:48:08 AM

@Ian , lilly, i have also been struggling with the radnet data. The best I found is here: iaspub.epa.gov . I have not found out how to extract the results in a useful way. But it's a start, ;)
by Peter 1/10/2012 1:59:27 AM