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Brochure telling people fukushima milk is safe for school lunches (complete with creepy looking cow) ex-skf.blogspot.comby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:07:32 AM- @Ian This was a known thing at least to all of us that the RPV was giving off heat. What was weird is it would give off heat some days, not on others. I have most of the unit 4 heat images on my image site.by lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:10:47 AM
After Fukushima, fish tales: www.montrealgazette.com
"In November, 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material created by nuclear reactors), according to a Gazette analysis of data on the fisheries agency’s website. Cesium is a long-lived radionuclide that persists in the environment and increases the risk of cancer, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which says the most common form of radioactive cesium has a half-life of 30 years.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which monitors food safety, says it is aware of the numbers but says the amounts of cesium detected are small.
“Approximately 60 per cent of fish have shown to have detectable levels of radionuclides,” it said in an emailed statement."
"Cesium was especially prevalent in certain of the species:
73 per cent of mackerel tested
91 per cent of the halibut
92 per cent of the sardines
93 per cent of the tuna and eel
94 per cent of the cod and anchovies
100 per cent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
Some of the fish were caught in Japanese coastal waters. Other catches were made hundreds of kilometres away in the open ocean."by bo 1/14/2012 2:11:26 AM- Louvre 'courting disaster' over plans to send works to Fukushima: www.telegraph.co.ukby bo 1/14/2012 2:15:23 AM
- @bo the details in that article on Canadian seafood safety are um, disturbing.by lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:25:42 AM
Sorry if this has already been posted.
by M.I.A. 1/14/2012 2:26:37 AM- @lilly and as you know, people in Japan tend to eat fish for at least two, and often three meals a day.by bo 1/14/2012 2:40:02 AM
- @bo The percentage of contamination is scary. Canada and the US are just acting like there is zero risk and justifying it by not testing.by lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:42:51 AM
- While searching info on shroud replacement, I came across Prof. Kobayashi's evaluation from 2002. He maps out the following scenario leading to a major incident: "Poor Value Perception, Difference in Culture, Difference of principle, Organizational Problems, Inflexible Management Structure, Information communication insufficiency, Misjudgment, Narrow Outlook, Standard defectiveness, Usage, Operation/Use, Core shroud, Usage, Maintenance/Repair, Inspection, Failure, Fracture/Damage, Stress corrosion crack, Loss to Organization, Social Loss, Confidence losing, Damage to Society, Change in Perception, Atomic energy infidelity". He predicted: "if the big damage is not experienced, every thing does not change, like the Japanese constitution in all fields you can think."
The big damage has eventually happened last year, only precipitated by a different cause. His evaluation of shroud damage risks under the case name "Trouble hiding of Atomic Power Plant" provides an interesting read: www.sozogaku.comby Peter 1/14/2012 2:58:14 AM - Here is an essay explaining the shroud crack scandal that Kobayashi evaluated in more eloquent English: Revelation of Endless N-damage Cover-ups cnic.jpby Peter 1/14/2012 3:08:41 AM
- Plutonium From Fukushima Made It Around The Planet
www.greenmedinfo.comby bo 1/14/2012 3:14:14 AM - I quote from the CNIC report cnic.jp : "The NISA and the TEPCO published interim reports on September 13 and 17 respectively, which addressed the 29 suspected cases in more detail. Regarding the cracks detected in the core shroud, according to the report, they had been already found at Fukushima I Unit-1 and Unit-4 in 1993, where the cracks in the middle part of the shroud at Fukushima I Unit-2 in 1994 were reported officially as the first case. The magnitude of the cracks in Fukushima I Unit-2 turned out to be far greater and more serious than the ones announced by the official report. It has also become clear that reactors in Fukushima I Unit 1, 3, and 5 have cracks in each shroud, so the claim that no cracks were found in the core shrouds and that they were replaced as a “preventive measure” is completely false." and "...replacements of the core shroud were carried out as a “preventive measure,” which means to ensure the “healthiness” of the shroud, at Fukushima I-1, I-3, and I-5. However, TEPCO never reported to the agency that there were cracks in these shrouds. "by Peter 1/14/2012 3:20:20 AM
- This is how things used to work in Japan: No Immediate Repairs Needed for Reactor Shroud at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant. www.highbeam.comby Peter 1/14/2012 3:24:04 AM
- I found the inspection agenda for Unit 4 again: bit.lyby Peter 1/14/2012 3:33:34 AM
For Japan Locust Eaters, A Plague of Cesium? blogs.wsj.comby Mid Valley 1/14/2012 4:28:49 AM- Co-op checking meals for cesium www.japantimes.co.jpby Mid Valley 1/14/2012 4:32:58 AM
- @Peter 'No immediate need for repairs' and 'No immediate harm to health'.Ah, the word 'immediate'. Useful for any occasion...
by M.I.A. 1/14/2012 4:34:26 AM - TABLE-Japan nuclear plant ops (Ikata No.2 enters turnaround) af.reuters.comby Mid Valley 1/14/2012 4:46:22 AM
- Radiation cloud 'not harmful' www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au The reading was taken at 6.30pm and measured 0.80 microsieverts, which is eight times over the average level of radiation in the atmosphere.
Mr Daley said he was concerned the cloud could have formed from a radioactive fall out from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Have we seen something like this to date??by Mid Valley 1/14/2012 5:22:02 AM - brumpby bo 1/14/2012 6:28:03 AM
- babumpby bo 1/14/2012 8:35:43 AM
bumpby Pedro Jesus 1/14/2012 10:19:41 AM- @Bo japanfocus.orgby eyes 1/14/2012 11:13:22 AM
- @Bo, Asia-Pacific Journal had an article and link to the lecture Hirose Takashi gave in September that you might be interested in watching.by eyes 1/14/2012 11:13:32 AM
- @eyes thanks a lot! I'll go check it out.by bo 1/14/2012 11:22:15 AM
- DARPA Helps Develop Radiation Sickness Treatment: medgadget.com
DARPA, always looking for ways to help the world.by bo 1/14/2012 12:12:52 PM - WOW. Scientist immediately sought details from U.S. on 1954 Bikini H-bomb test
www.japantimes.co.jpby bo 1/14/2012 12:14:16 PM - Courts find black rain from A-bomb was more far-reaching than gov't acknowledged: mdn.mainichi.jpby bo 1/14/2012 12:15:19 PM
greetings to allby dean 1/14/2012 12:34:59 PM- fukushima-diary.com news : Hydrogen explosion of reactor 4 may have happened on 1/9/2012. Now I heard that the city mayor of Minamisoma got the phone call from a former city councilor to tell, on 1/9/2012, at Fukushima plant, (Probably at reactor 4) some kind of explosion happened, and the government is concealing it.
I’m not quite sure if it’s true or not, but it probably is not a nuclear explosion but a hydrogen explosion. (Even by a hydrogen explosion, radiation is scattered in a huge scale. I wondered why the person can stay that cool in such a situation. Probably he has already seen hell, he might be used to dealing with the fear and the stress by living in the 50km area.)by dean 1/14/2012 12:37:10 PM - Hydrogen explosion may have happened at reactor 4 and been concealed by the government ,said on the blog of Katayama Satsuki, a member of the House of Councilors of Liberal Democratic Party.by dean 1/14/2012 12:37:41 PM
- @dean good morningby bo 1/14/2012 12:50:19 PM
- What statistical information would indicate the hydrogen explosion at 4? On Jan 9thby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:13:34 PM
- Homes in Koriyama to Have Free Radiation Check as Job-Creation Measure en.rocketnews24.comby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:16:20 PM
- @All Good morning, afternooon,etc. A tidbit: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is urging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to put forward a detailed plan for dealing with an influx of millions of tons of possibly radioactive debris from the March tsunami in Japan, which is expected to hit the U.S. West Coast in 2013. thehill.comby M.I.A. 1/14/2012 2:17:51 PM
- @lilly and @M.I.A. good morning. Regarding the flotsam, it has already turned up in Canada, a year earlier than they predicted, so I imagine that Oregon is not far behindby bo 1/14/2012 2:18:53 PM
- One-third of Namie evacuees expect to never return home ajw.asahi.comby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:23:01 PM
- Well, tatami time for me folks. I'll see you all in the Japanese morn.by bo 1/14/2012 2:24:54 PM
- @bo 'Night, Boby M.I.A. 1/14/2012 2:25:33 PM
- nite boby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:30:29 PM
- NRC Staff to Lay Out Next Steps on Plant Safety, Official Says www.businessweek.comby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:36:39 PM
- 5000 in attendance at the Yokohama conference today per Ryuichi Kinoby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:43:21 PM
- Contaminated soil disposal dump created in Minamisoma - with pictures of the process www.asahi.comby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:46:24 PM
- Radiation detector for your house. It tells you radiation level in the air www.amazon.co.jpby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:53:23 PM
- 9686 bq of cesium (also stronium etc) in the sea bed of Osaka bay. This is the west side of Honshu why is it so contaminated? dub314.blog.fc2.comby lillymunster 1/14/2012 2:57:35 PM
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