Japan Earthquake

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"NRC: Nuclear technicians surfed web on the job" (Mike M. Ahlers) edition.cnn.com
by Pedro Jesus 1/10/2012 3:04:42 AM

@dean, it is Dutch Harbor, gross gamma. It might be the gross-beta counts that can be more erratic.
by Ian 1/10/2012 3:04:42 AM

The original station in question was Corvallis OR - they have higher readings now than around Fukushima fallout.
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 3:05:28 AM

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria From The Fukushima Nuclear Accident?

www.huffingtonpost.com
by Panserbjorne9 1/10/2012 3:07:42 AM

@lillymunster , thanks for the spreadsheets. Indeed, also Harrisonburg's gross beta airfilter data goes back only four years. But I found an interesting use for the graphing option. The graphs plot local and overall averages per annum. The discrepancies can be quite remarkable, particularly last year. i1214.photobucket.com
by Peter via I1214.photobucket 1/10/2012 3:09:40 AM

Actually the difference between overall and local was double last year, when the data for Virginia is plotted. Harrisonburg is somehow always on the high side.
by Peter 1/10/2012 3:11:55 AM

@lillymunster, one thing I've read in the radon-washout literature is that radon levels decrease during the winter. That Oregon graph www.scribblelive.com shows it leveling off low around now, but why there's that fall peak I don't know. Might be a warmer-than-normal fall. Seems cold reduces the rate of radon-gas emission from uranium in the soil.
by Ian 1/10/2012 3:14:50 AM

This was posted this morning - all radnet graphs on one page. But it only shows Sept=Jan blog.alexanderhiggins.com
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 3:20:58 AM

The overall average was not quite double that for Virginia. But you get the gist of such comparisons. i1214.photobucket.com
by Peter via I1214.photobucket 1/10/2012 3:22:52 AM

@Ian , you must play with them. I think there is value in comparing local and overall averages.
by Peter 1/10/2012 3:24:25 AM

www.volcano.si.edu Here's the inverse of what I said, but this is for radon in well water. Text for graph: Figure 12. Results of radon measurements from two water wells at Campi Flegrei: top, near Solfatara, 26 April 1983-2 March 1985 (Tortorelli); bottom, near Monte Nuovo, 26 April 1983-25 February 198 (Damiani). Courtesy of OV. Source: www.volcano.si.edu
by Ian via Volcano.si.edu 1/10/2012 3:25:28 AM

@Peter, is overall average the avg for the whole US? You'd expect that isolating western from eastern US cities, you might find a relative post-Fuku rise. I'm not sure anyone has demonstrated a post-Fuku rise of background radioactivity, at least from EPA data (which given the pre-Fuku data we've found should be possible if the signal is there). There are isotopic findings from Fuku in the US (as throughout Europe), ie, findings of specific isotopes. But to what extent those traces raised the background radioactivity is to my knowledge uncharted territory.
by Ian 1/10/2012 3:32:44 AM

Meji Milk 2 bq/kg cesium securitytokyo.com
7-11 Milk 1 bq/kg cesium securitytokyo.com
both bought in Tokyo
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 3:35:00 AM

Private food tests at SecurityTokyo. Rice from Ibaraki & Niigata had some contamination, All milk samples had low levels, securitytokyo.com
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 3:39:07 AM

@Ian I live in Southern Oregon. Yes, warmer fall than normal. High temps through October. We have had cold/fog inversion for the last few weeks. Could be what is keeping the counts low. Cold foggy air gets trapped and keeps new air from coming in. Just my 2 cents.
by Lurking 1/10/2012 3:46:02 AM

US saving more energy than expected. www.renewableenergyworld.com
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 3:53:28 AM

Hi Lilly, sorry to have been AWOL, had a lot to deal with in Chicago.
by bo 1/10/2012 4:29:12 AM

Yeah, more hard than busy, was tending to my ailing mom. But busy too I suppose as i had to complete some work at the same time. Ugh. Glad to be back in Hiroshima.
by bo 1/10/2012 4:35:16 AM

There is a conference about opposing nuclear power in Tokyo this month, have folks here heard about it? I can find the link.
by bo 1/10/2012 4:35:36 AM

@bo I heard about it, but lost the link over the weekend. I did manage to save the link for a refuge program. minnade-ganbaro.jp
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 4:37:19 AM

A reminder to go vote TEPCO for worst company in Greenpeace's award competition t.co
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 4:40:30 AM

UCOR, the Department of Energy's cleanup manager in Oak Ridge announced today that workers had excavated Tank W-1A -- an undergound waste tank responsible for radioactively polluting the groundwater in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's historic central campus. The 4,000-gallon stainless-steel tank was commissioned in 1951 and used for decades for collection and storage of liquid radioactive wastes from the lab's nuclear research and production.

The tank and the hot soils that surrounded it -- sometimes known as Corehole No. 8, a name acquired from a monitoring well that first discovered the problem -- were considered to be the biggest source of groundwater radioactivity in Bethel Valley.
blogs.knoxnews.com
by M.I.A. 1/10/2012 4:47:36 AM

@M.I.A. I looked at the 2009 EPA report. There were high tritium locations in the US, all of them just outside the various national labs (minus Idaho)
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 4:49:56 AM

Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World to be held in Yokohama in a week and a half: npfree.jp
by bo 1/10/2012 5:11:41 AM

Not sure if I will make it as I just got home and it is a four hour train ride this weekend to attend
by bo 1/10/2012 5:51:07 AM

Fukushima nuclear cleanup could create its own environmental disaster
www.guardian.co.uk
by bo 1/10/2012 6:02:56 AM

Plant worker in coma after being exposed to 52msv mdn.mainichi.jp
by elainekirk 1/10/2012 10:49:19 AM

Back after difficult travel, but happy to be home, however briefly!
by bo 1/10/2012 11:41:22 AM

They guy in the coma appears to be the one who had a heart attack the other day. Article says his dose that day was 52 microsieverts but they are not stating his total dose. This is just getting way too weird with the string of workers dropping dead (or critically ill).

Does anyone know if any of the workers who have died were actually TEPCO employees or are they all contractors?
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 1:01:38 PM

Quake disaster survivors see bleak future as unemployment benefits run out mdn.mainichi.jp
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 1:02:48 PM

@lillymunster yes I am home doing battle with the power company who have been milking my bank account I keep up to date on phone with you all it is nice to be back at the comp for awhile
by elainekirk 1/10/2012 1:08:43 PM