Japan - Fukushima Radiation

Japan - Fukushima Radiation

Postby winston » Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:58 pm

Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US by Fairewinds Energy Education

While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens.

All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US.

This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan.
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At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington, DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC's Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants.

Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be uninhabitable for generations.

http://vimeo.com/38995781
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Postby winston » Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:41 pm

Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident

Many of our readers might find it difficult to appreciate the actual meaning of the figure, yet we can grasp what 85 times more Cesium-137 than the Chernobyl would mean.

It would destroy the world environment and our civilization.

This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants.

This is an issue of human survival.

http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html
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Japan - Radiation Issues

Postby winston » Wed May 30, 2012 6:20 am

Absolutely Every One, 15 Out of 15, Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation
by WashingtonsBlog


California Fish Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation

We noted more than a year ago:
The ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.

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Of course, fish dont necessarily stay still, either. For example, the Telegraph notes that scientists tagged a bluefin tuna and found that it crossed between Japan and the West Coast three times in 600 days:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/ ... ation.html
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Postby winston » Wed May 30, 2012 6:45 am

Fukushima radiation higher than first estimated

WHO releases mixed Fukushima radiation report

By Kevin Krolicki

TOKYO May 24 (Reuters) - The radiation released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost 2-1/2 times the amount first estimated by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on Thursday.

"If this information had been available at the time, we could have used it in planning evacuations," Tepco spokesman Junichi Matsumoto told a news conference.

Because radiation sensors closest to the plant were knocked out by the March 11, 2011 quake and the tsunami, the utility based its estimate on other monitoring posts and data collected by Japanese government agencies.

That was 2-1/2 times the amount of the first estimate by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in April last year and about 17 percent more than the highest estimate provided by the government safety agency.

The estimate was based on measurements suggesting the amount of Iodine-131 released by the nuclear accident was three times higher than previous estimates, the utility said in the report.

Iodine-131 is a fast-decaying radioactive substance produced by fission that takes place inside a nuclear reactor. It has a half-life of eight days.

More than 99 percent of the radiation released by the accident came in the first three weeks, it added.

The World Health Organization released its own study this week concluding that residents around the Fukushima plant had been exposed to up to 20 times normal background radiation in the first year after the accident. That was still within the WHO's recommended emergency limit.

Officials expect it will take up to 30 years to decommission the Fukushima reactors. The accident has prompted a debate over the future of nuclear power in the resource-poor nation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/ ... ID20120524
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Re: Japan - Radioactive Contamination

Postby winston » Wed May 30, 2012 8:17 pm

Japan: Mobile Phone with Geiger Counter

Following Fukushima's nuclear disaster, Japanese citizens have been especially wary of radiation exposure.

SoftBank on Tuesday revealed a new smartphone to answer such concerns.

The company's Pantone 5 107SH is the world's first phone with a built-in geiger counter, capable of measuring radiation levels within 20 percent accuracy.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/ ... detection/
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Re: Japan - Radioactive Contamination

Postby winston » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:26 am

Fukushima Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA

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No one wants to imagine the future and what will happen even if the situation does not get worse. Radiation is pouring out of Fukushima and that radiation is hitting the streets of Los Angles quite hard.

In April 2012 environmental journalist and LA Weekly contributor Michael Collins, an independent who has tested over 1500 samples since the Fukushima earthquake of 2011, was shocked to find that radiation levels in the falling rain over L.A. measured five times above normal.

A March 6th test of a HEPA filter recorded radiation levels 668% or 6.68 times the normal background radiation levels. This test took place 43 days after initial tests and shows a 130% increase since January 22nd 2012.

“The California Highway Patrol considers anything over three times background, 300% of background above, a trigger level to a hazardous materials situation,” reported the EnviroReporter.

That radiation is rising in Los Angeles as it is in many places in the northern hemisphere. For some reality checking, we have the New York Times saying that, “The amount of radioactive materials released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost two and a half times the initial estimate by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on the 24th of May, 2012.

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2012/06/05 ... ets-of-la/
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Re: Japan - Radioactive Contamination

Postby winston » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:13 pm

Japan's Latest Nuclear Crisis: Getting Rid of the Radioactive Debris By Michael McAteer

A plan to disperse the waste to incineration facilities across the country, meant to instill national unity, is doing the opposite, and further delaying Japan's ability to move beyond Fukushima.

KITA KYUSHU, Japan -- Disposing the more than 20 million tons of rubble caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is proving to be a difficult problem for Japan, not least because much of the rubble has been irradiated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The government's plan -- to destroy 4 million tons of potentially radioactive earthquake debris in garbage incinerators around the country -- is dividing the nation and further delaying the country's ability to put Fukushima behind it.

More than a year after the disaster, over 90 percent of the debris from disaster-stricken areas is still sitting around, waiting for disposal.

Under a government pledge to clear the rubble entirely by 2014, the Ministry of the Environment is leading an effort to distribute the rubble to municipalities around Japan for speedy incineration and burial. But people across the country have met the plan with strong opposition, objecting that it needlessly spreads radiation to unaffected areas.

http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... s/257963/#
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Re: Japan - Radioactive Contamination

Postby winston » Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:26 am

Radiation On West Coast of North America Could End Up Being 10 Times HIGHER than in Japan

In 10 Years, Peak Cesium Levels Off West Coast Could Be 10 Times Higher Than at Coast of Japan

We’ve extensively documented the fact that ocean currents bring Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America, and that – rather than adequate ocean dilution - there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/07/ ... japan.html
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Re: Japan - Radioactive Contamination affecting other countries

Postby winston » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:37 am

Japanese oatmeal tests positive for radiation

A pack of oatmeal imported from Japan and taken from a HK supermarket contained radioactive material, health authorities said today.

The Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said the sample had “a low level of radioactivity’’. But it said there were no health concerns.

The centre said the product was Nihonshokuhin Premium Pure Oatmeal made by Nippon Food Manufacturer.

“The test result showed that a low level of a radioactive substance, Caesium-137 [Cs-137], was detected at 7 bequerels per kilo.

However, the detected level did not exceed the guideline levels of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (i.e. 1,000 Bq/kg).’’

The supermarket concerned had not been ordered to recall the product.


Source: The Standard HK
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Re: Japan - Radioactive Contamination affecting other countries

Postby winston » Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:21 pm

The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly

The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment.

A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the biological impacts of this accident on animals has not been available.

Here we show that the accident caused physiological and genetic damage to the pale grass blue Zizeeria maha, a common lycaenid butterfly in Japan.

We collected the first-voltine adults in the Fukushima area in May 2011, some of which showed relatively mild abnormalities.

The F1 offspring from the first-voltine females showed more severe abnormalities, which were inherited by the F2 generation.

Adult butterflies collected in September 2011 showed more severe abnormalities than those collected in May.

Similar abnormalities were experimentally reproduced in individuals from a non-contaminated area by external and internal low-dose exposures.

We conclude that artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant caused physiological and genetic damage to this species.

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120809/ ... 00570.html
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