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@Ian Perfect tune for any fuku occasion.

@lillymunster OK, I haven't seen the map yet, looks good

Found this useless site. TEPCO
@TEPCO_English
This is the official English Twitter account of The Tokyo Electric Power Co, Inc. (TEPCO). Tweets in English will be delivered from this account.
twitter.com

@bo It was great to read the only 5 of 54 are on line and to know power is still available. One more falsehood losing strength in the light of truth.

It's great with the links translate as well:)

@Mid Valley Great thought you had there, doing a translation on graphs.

@bo Glad you are back on posting...was wondering what happened to you and your flight

@bo :)...but good to here you have your priorities straight

UPDATE 2-Japan 2011 nuclear plant usage rate falls to 38 pct. TOKYO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The average nuclear plant
utilisation rate at 10 Japanese power firms fell to 38.0 percent
last year, down from 68.3 percent in 2010, a Reuters calculation
based on monthly trade ministry data showed on Tuesday.
For the month of December, the rate dwindled to 15.2
percent, a record low, against 67.9 percent a year earlier.
Public fears about nuclear safety due to the radiation
crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi
plant, the world's worst atomic disaster in 25 years, have
prevented authorities from giving utilities the go-ahead to
restart reactors closed for regular maintenance. www.reuters.com

@MaryW, twas lilly's inspiration on sight of the sped-up Tomioka Cam.

"Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for January 6th – January 9th, 2012" (Justin McKeating) www.greenpeace.org

"the government will for the first time legally require power companies to create contingency plans in the case of nuclear disaster"

"Japan is considering placing nuclear plants under public control, and may separate power generation and distribution functions."

"Only five of the nation’s 54 reactors will remain in operation: Hokkaido Electric’s Tomari 3 (Hokkaido Prefecture); TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 5 and 6 (Niigata Prefecture); Kansai Electric’s Takahama 3 (Fukui Prefecture); and Chugoku Electric’s Shimane 2 (Shimane Prefecture)."

"Japanese government officials have admitted that John Roos, United States Ambassador to Japan, pressured then-Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto to pour water on the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on March 16, 2011, after the government temporarily halted spraying from helicopters because of high radiation levels."

"Scientists are studying how to use elementary muon particles from space in order to develop images of melted fuel in reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant"

"Although the government has said that residents may not be able to return for five years or more, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) estimates it will take more than five decades for radiation to return to safe levels."

"Researchers are raising concerns that massive decontamination efforts in Fukushima Prefecture could result in large-scale ecological destruction"

Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2012 Jan 6.

VERIFICATION OF SCREENING LEVEL FOR DECONTAMINATION IMPLEMENTED AFTER FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT.

The screening level for decontamination that has been applied for the surface of the human body and contaminated handled objects after the Fukushima nuclear accident was verified by assessing the doses that arise from external irradiation, ingestion, inhalation and skin contamination. The result shows that the annual effective dose that arises from handled objects contaminated with the screening level for decontamination (i.e. 100 000 counts per minute) is <1 mSv y(-1), which can be considered as the intervention exemption level in accordance with the International Commission on Radiological Protection recommendations. Furthermore, the screening level is also found to protect the skin from the incidence of a deterministic effect because the absorbed dose of the skin that arises from direct deposition on the surface of the human body is calculated to be lower than the threshold of the deterministic effect assuming a practical exposure duration.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Full: rpd.oxfordjournals.org

Deb, to know this was the life of your first grandchild has deepened my feeling of concern and sorrow. I agree - we may never know the health effects here. We are on the West Coast and we know that fukushima contamination is present. hugs to you Deb. One day we will meet. Spare room is always waiting.

@deb, sorry to hear that! It must feel awful to wonder who your grandchild would have been. I doubt there's a Fukushima connection, but we'd never really know. Even if there was some statistical signal, one couldn't be sure if a given case was part of it. But not to fret, you'll be a grandma yet. :)