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@lilly I can get them translated in the morning Japan time.by bo 1/24/2012 11:28:40 AM- Interesting site about post 3/11 art: radioactivists.orgby bo 1/24/2012 11:33:07 AM
another independent politician gets a mayors job. www.insidejapantours.com
Youngest mayor ever in Japan and femaleby lillymunster 1/24/2012 11:39:53 AM- Good to hear.by bo 1/24/2012 11:55:06 AM
- @lilly do you know who does the enenews site?by bo 1/24/2012 11:57:00 AM
- @bo No and some people were trying to figure it out at one point. The domain was registered to some lawyers office in the US SE. Whomever runs it doesn't want to be known but some of the other bloggers have talked to whomever it is.by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:06:39 PM
@bo The charts don't seem to mention what type of radiation is being measured. If it is gamma ray, there is a good chance the spikes coincide with the increased solar activity.by Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 12:11:02 PM- @lilly somehow I remember that. Interesting. Tyby bo 1/24/2012 12:12:47 PM
- @Pedro Jesus wouldn't the key and the colors indicate the type?by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:13:20 PM
- @lillymunster Possibly, but I can't read any Kanji. I didn't find any reference to radiation type that I could recognize.
Besides that, can we trust Enenews, given all the mystery surrounding its ownership and sources?by Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 12:18:57 PM - @Pedro Jesus the original source of the graph I posted is from a Japan civil source if I am reading the web address correctly. What it actually means I don't know since we can't read the key.by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:20:59 PM
- "Update 06/25/11: A reader pointed out eight days after my article, on April 11, that the author of enenews.com is also the one behind floridaoilspilllaw.com, and that can be found in the earlier comments.
On April 18, the author finally got around to creating an About page, wherein he claimed he is not a lawyer trying to sue. On June 24, after enenews.com had gone down for hours as it has several times in the past few months, someone pointed out that the author has since revealed he is a lawyer.
To those who say this information is now evident, it wasn’t when I published this article on April 3, and the scary headlines with an anti-nuclear editorial bent, the lack of other energy news coverage, and no positive solutions haven’t stopped either."
fauxcapitalist.comby bo 1/24/2012 12:26:52 PM - A nice read: "Tokyo sees high quake probability, scientists warn" (Elizabeth Yuan) edition.cnn.comby Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 12:27:40 PM
- @bo Interesting article. So, we don't know who owns, Enenews, we don't know who are its publishers or contributors and we don't know what his/their agenda is. I think we should be very wary of the information they provide.by Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 12:38:39 PM
- @Pedro Jesus I take everything from enenews with a grain of salt and go look at whatever source they cite instead to see if the original source has anything valid or of value.by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:42:20 PM
- @Pedro Jesus they are essentially a news consolidator. They repost, with a one or two line commentary, the news that they gather from other sites. So I would say that it is still useful as they are vigilant at gathering data. We can then analyze the data as we choose.by bo 1/24/2012 12:42:48 PM
- D'oh! @lilly is too fast for me!by bo 1/24/2012 12:43:05 PM
Hi guys, I posted the graphs from Yokohama / Kanagawa but I didn't post an explanation sorry. The linked Image is generated from a site which plots all the data from the Kanagawa prefectural government environmental monitoring system, so the numbers are official. The various colored lines represent different monitoring stations located around Yokohama city, Kawazaki city and surrounds. You can also see the original data for the individual stations updating at 10min intervals here: cgi.pref.kanagawa.jp As for ENENEWS, they linked to the similar ATMC site which collects and plots data directly from the relevant prefectural governments, so the data is solid. I agree that with ENENEWS it is best to disregard the alarmist headlines entirely and just evaluate the stories on a link by link basis. ENENEWs is a useful digest with tabloid headline writers.by Jim 1/24/2012 12:48:18 PM- I would also add, that I don't think we need to have a decision as a group to accept or reject a source like enenews.com. We can each decide for ourselves how much trust and value to place in a particular source.by bo 1/24/2012 12:49:01 PM
- @Jim do you have any idea what the detection equipment is looking at? Beta, gamma etc?by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:49:28 PM
- @lillymunster Like we should do with any other news service. Even Reuters has been wrong several times in the course of this past 8 months and so.
@bo I don't think that is necessary either. As long as we always post the sources, it is easy for others to evaluate their veracity by comparing with other sources, like we usually do. No source should be completely disregarded.by Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 12:53:36 PM - I meant, 10 months and so.by Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 12:54:10 PM
- Fukushima Diary found something interesting. Radiation type flashes on the Teppycam after the recent quake and what looks like the flame we thought we saw weeks ago. It is in the same general region we saw something also. fukushima-diary.comby lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:56:47 PM
- One thing I have noticed is that most of the websites still posting about Fukushima are good about linking to their source material. This was a problem early on but I think enough feedback asking them to do so helped with the learning curve.by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:57:40 PM
- @lillymunster: Kanagawa's outdoor monitoring posts measure gamma - you can see an image of the monitoring post here - cgi.pref.kanagawa.jp Tokyo metropolitan ones are similar and also measure gamma, so I'm going to guess that they all do. They are exposed to the elements so have to be weather-proofed which would preclude a delicate unshielded alpha / beta detector. Kanagawa also gives a nice illustrated explanation (in Japanese) about the temporary spikes from natural radon decay products which can be expected during rain storms here : cgi.pref.kanagawa.jp Tokyo Govt claims no cesium detected in the snow, so it might be natural monitoring.tokyo-eiken.go.jpby Jim 1/24/2012 1:05:45 PM
- Sorry first link was broken: cgi.pref.kanagawa.jpby Jim 1/24/2012 1:07:37 PM
- Nothing in TEPCO press reports about the flame or any hydrogen venting. Just more water whack a mole and some guy knocked the filter off his respirator but didn't have any internal or face contaminationby lillymunster 1/24/2012 1:25:34 PM
- @lillymunster , I always wondered where the gas tepco pumps into the primary containments at good clip escapes to. The flow washout must be the cause of much radioactivity released into the air at present.by Peter 1/24/2012 1:29:07 PM
- About the ongoing solar radiation storm:
"The radiation storm that began early this morning has continued to rise very slowly throughout the day but has remained at the S3 (Strong) level. It should be at or near its peak and is expected to begin to decrease soon. We are still awaiting the arrival of the Coronal Mass Ejection which is still expected at about 9am EST (1400 GMT) on Tuesday."
Source: NOAA / NWS www.swpc.noaa.govby Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 1:35:17 PM 
www.jma.go.jp
17:07 JST 24 Jan 2012 37.1N 141.3E 50 km 4.5 Fukushima-ken Oki
moderate aftershock of yesterday's aftershockby Edano via Jma.go.jp 1/24/2012 1:48:21 PM- Gov't seeks removal of anti-nuclear activists' tents from gov't land: mdn.mainichi.jpby bo 1/24/2012 1:52:06 PM
- Gov't seeks removal of anti-nuclear activists' tents from gov't land
TOKYO, Jan. 24, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
:)by Edano 1/24/2012 1:54:41 PM - Govt drafts new safety steps for nuclear plants
The Japanese government is calling on local authorities near nuclear power plants to come up with new measures to prepare for possible nuclear accidents.
The government made the request on Monday at a briefing for about 100 local officials on its new draft measures for nuclear accidents. The existing measures have been under review since the accident in Fukushima.
The minister in charge of the nuclear crisis, Goshi Hosono, said the government has renewed its pledge to prevent accidents. He asked the participants to work with the government in drafting new disaster management plans and safety regulations.
The government told the participants that it plans to increase the number of plant inspectors stationed in the host communities.
The government will also boost the functions of emergency response centers and relocate them to safer places.
The center near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant became unusable after its accident due to a power outage and high levels of radiation.
The government plans to widen areas for extensive disaster preparedness from the 10-kilometer radius around nuclear plants to a 30-kilometer radius.
The government has asked authorities in the expanded areas to come up with new plans by October.
Some participants said the request is being made at short notice. Others asked the government to show them examples of collaboration among municipalities.
Monday, January 23, 2012 19:14 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 1/24/2012 1:56:02 PM - Democracy Now has coverage of the film "The Atomic States of America," available online after the broadcast (in an hour or two): www.democracynow.orgby bo 1/24/2012 1:56:21 PM
- Premiering at Sundance: filmguide.sundance.orgby bo 1/24/2012 1:57:13 PM
- Radioactive release from Fukushima plant rises
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says the amount of radioactive substances being released from the plant has risen slightly. It attributes the rise to increased human activities onsite.
Tokyo Electric has been measuring the levels of radioactive substances released from damaged reactors at the plant since the accident in March.
The level measured onsite was 800-trillion becquerels per hour immediately after the accident.
Readings continued to decline, and in November and December dropped to 60 million becquerels per hour. That is about one 13 millionth the initial level.
But the company says the levels were slightly up to 70 million becquerels per hour in January.
The company says that radioactive materials around the No. 2 reactor, the surrounding of which is still highly contaminated, were stirred up by a number of workers going in and out of the building.
They were working to insert an optical fiberscope into the containment vessel as an initial step toward decommissioning the reactor.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:04 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 1/24/2012 1:57:44 PM - cold shutdown, eh ? ;)by Edano 1/24/2012 1:58:03 PM
- Bomb survivor doctor continues to speak up about significance of internal exposure: mdn.mainichi.jpby bo 1/24/2012 2:01:25 PM
- If you live in the UK, catch this! www.tricycle.co.ukby bo 1/24/2012 2:23:02 PM
Credibility is extremely important. My 2 yen.by Cryptococcus 1/24/2012 2:32:42 PM- Busby, the rock star... www.myspace.comby lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:51:08 PM
- @lillymunster lolby Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 2:53:10 PM
- In case anyone is interested:
The @WhiteHouse has identified hashtags for tonight's SOTU, including #jobs, #manufacturing, #energy, #education and #fairness.
Interested to see what goes across the energy hashtag tonightby lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:57:15 PM - @lilly, the nuclear veterans in the UK despise Busby and call him an opportunist because of their personal dealings with himby bo 1/24/2012 4:05:35 PM
- Wanted: Parking Spaces for Nuclear Waste : green.blogs.nytimes.comby bo 1/24/2012 4:06:18 PM
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