The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
Tokyo is already lost and finished.
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(Links on what will happen if Reactor 4 collapses are down below.)
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This video clip is part of a morning news & information TV program called “Morning Bird” by TV Asahi, aired on March 8, 2012.
The reporter is Mr. Toru Tamakawa. The expert is Dr. Hiroaki Koide, Research Associate at the Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University.
Decontamination in Japan = house-cleaning.
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Nearly a year after an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel journeys to a place still frozen in the moments after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck. Engel visits the exclusion zone surrounding Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Factories, homes, restaurants and farms remain as they were when people abandoned their homes and livelihoods for safety.
– Temperature of reactor 6 is unstable (Fukushima Diary, Mar 9, 2012)
– 520 ?Sv/h in Futabamachi Fukushima (Fukushima Diary, Mar 9, 2012)
– 3.43 Million Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium in “Black Dust” in Minami Soma City, Fukushima (EX-SKF, Mar 8, 2012):
Whatever this substance is, the number is extremely high.
About this “black dust” in Minami Soma, see my past posts, here, here, here.
Minami Soma City’s Assemblyman Ooyama reports on his blog (3/8/2012):
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Cs-134 1,498,000 ± 1,586 Bq/kg
Cs-137 1,932,900 ± 2,481 Bq/kg
TOTAL 3,430,900± 2,945 Bq/kgIt seems to be part of the report by Professor Tomoya Yamauchi of Kobe University who did the measurement. Mr. Ooyama lists the result of 11 samples tested by Professor Yamauchi.
The NGO in Minami Soma, HCR, seems to have some kind of a fallout with the assemblyman’s volunteer group over the “black dust”, and they’ve been making rather wild announcements (telling residents that the black dust was plutonium, when there was no alpha emission was detected, for example). I am still trying to get the overall picture on this matter.
– Fukushima citizen 90 mSv of thyroid exposure (Fukushima Diary, Mar 9, 2012)
– 89 Millisieverts Equivalent Dose at Thyroid from a Resident in Namie-machi, Fukushima, Says Hirosaki University Researchers (EX-SKF, Mar 8, 2012):
Professor Shinji Tokonami, Department of Radiation Physics, Institute of Radiation Emergency Medicine, Hirosaki University and his researchers say people who escaped from the coastal areas of Fukushima Prefecture after the accident and people who continued to live in Namie-machi after the March 11, 2011 nuclear accident were found with high levels of radiation exposure on the thyroid.
They tested 65 residents in April 2011, and it is in the news on March 9, 2012. Another case of nearly one-year delay in disclosing the information that would have made the difference if known earlier. Like 11 months ago.
From Asahi Shinbun (3/9/2012):
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It has been disclosed that someone was exposed to nearly 90 millisievert radiation [equivalent dose] on the thyroid from radioactive iodine during the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident. Professor Shinji Tokonami, Department of Radiation Physics, Institute of Radiation Emergency Medicine, Hirosaki University and his researchers analyzed the test result of 65 Fukushima residents. The test was conducted 1 month after the accident. Of people who were exposed to radiation, about half had equivalent dose of 10 millisieverts or less, but 5 people had equivalent dose exceeding 50 millisieverts.
– Plutonium-241 of Fukushima Origin Found 32 Kilometers from the Plant, Says National Institute of Radiological Sciences After Nearly One Year (EX-SKF, Mar 8, 2012):
The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) knew about it since May last year, but decided to keep quiet. Why? It’s yet another case of the researchers waiting until their data collection is published in a peer-review scientific magazine (the paper is linked at the bottom of the post).
For the NIRS researchers, their data has just been published in the UK’s Scientific Reports (electronic version), reports Kyodo News (3/8/2012):
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The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS, in Chiba City, Chiba) published the result of their measurement of plutonium-241 at three locations in Fukushima Prefecture 20 to 32 kilometers northwest and south of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in the electronic version of the UK’s science magazine “Scientific Reports” issued on March 8, 2012.
The face of the enemy
– Wind farms: even worse than we thought… (Telegraph, Mar 8, 2012):
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has produced yet another devastating report: this time on the economics of wind farms. Turns out they’re even worse than we thought.
Not only do the Bat Chomping Eco-Crucifixes (TM) ruin views, kill birds, cause bats to implode, destroy the British film industry, frighten horses, enrich rent-seeking toffs like David Cameron’s father-in-law Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt, drive up electricity bills, kill jobs, create fuel poverty, cause old people to die of hypothermia, wipe out property values, drive people mad with strobing and noise pollution and enable smug liberal idiots to spout rubbish like “Oh, I don’t mind them. Actually I think they’re rather beautiful”, but also by 2020 they’re set to drive up consumer bills in the UK alone by £120 billion.
This is about ten times more than it would cost if we stuck to gas. (Which we have in abundance, just waiting to be exploited, in places like the Bowland Shale).
In the latest Spectator, Matt Ridley delivers the coup-de-grace. Here’s a taste:
– Radiation Readings Soar At Rocketdyne (EnviroReporter, Mar 6, 2012)
– Bill That Will Create “Global Warming Tax” Wil Pass in Japan by the End of March (EX-SKF, Mar 7, 2012):
In case you are not aware, Japan is one of the last bastions of people who believe in anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. The majority of the population in Japan are quite willing to sacrifice their well-being if that reduces CO2 emission and save the mother earth.
From Yomiuri Shinbun (3/7/2012):
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Secretaries-general and Diet policy committee chairmen of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito Party met on March 7, and confirmed their parties’ policy to agree to 4 tax bills [submitted by the Noda administration] in the bills related to the fiscal 2012 budget including the one that will create the tax for countermeasures against global warming (environmental tax).
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With their agreement, the 4 bills are likely to be passed within this month.
Flashback:
– Huge Amounts Of Neptunium 239 Detected 60 Km From Fukushima!!!
– Discovery of Neptunium-239 in Iitate-mura Finally Published by a Peer-Review Magazine (Nearly One Year after the Discovery) (EX-SKF, Mar 4, 2012):
A paper by a researcher at Tokyo University about discovery of neptunium-239 and other short-lived nuclides in Iitate-mura seems to have finally been accepted and published by Environmental Pollution, a peer-reviewed scientific magazine. It was made available online on January 20, 2012, and is published in the April 2012 issue of the magazine.
It took nearly 1 year for off-line readers to know about the discovery. The researcher took the samples of soil, plants and water in early April last year.
In August last year there was an article of neptunium-239 having been discovered in Iitate-mura, 35 kilometers from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, by a researcher at Tokyo University. The article was written by a husband and wife comedian couple. (For more, see my post on August 15, 2011.) They were criticized for not revealing the source (name of this researcher) or the details. Their response was that the researcher was submitting the paper to a peer-reviewed magazine.
Well here it is, published by a peer-reviewed magazine nearly one year after the accident, and now utterly irrelevant except for some academic curiosity. The information, as it sat in limbo of peer-reviewing process, was not used to educate, warn people in Fukushima, particularly in Iitate-mura, so that they could decide what to do. If they had known their soil and vegetation were extremely contaminated with short-lived radionuclides with strong radioactivity, they might have done things differently.
I hope the researcher at least warned the villagers privately.
From Sciencedirect.com:
Environmental Pollution
Volume 163, April 2012, Pages 243–247
Deposition of fission and activation products after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident
* Katsumi Shozugawa (a), Corresponding author
* Norio Nogawa (b),
* Motoyuki Matsuo (a)* a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
* b Radioisotope Center, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan* Received 22 August 2011. Revised 24 December 2011. Accepted 1 January 2012. Available online 20 January 2012.
Abstract
From the article:
Yukio Edano, the chief cabinet secretary, told the investigation that he feared, “If that happens, then Tokyo will be finished.”
In fact Tokyo is finished:
– Tokyo Burns Radioactive Waste In 23 Incinerators All Over The City!!!
– Radioactive Japan: Contamination Detected In Tokyo Equal To Chernobyl Mandatory Evacuation Levels
– Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: Japan suppressed key radiation report (Telegraph, Mar 5, 2012):
Four days after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Yoshiaki Takaki, the then-science minister, met with senior members of the government and ministry officials and decided not to release to the public data from the national System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI), according to leaked internal documents.
Predictions on the amount of radiation that had already been released from the crippled reactors, as well as further radiation that might escape into the atmosphere “could by no means be released to the public,” says the document, according to Kyodo News.
Dated March 19, the document predicts that clouds of radioactivity could be released from the plant and spread across northern and central Japan, including Tokyo.
– Internal document “SPEEDI result is too serious. can’t be disclosed.” (Fukushima Diary, Mar 4, 2012):
Insider document was made to record that 3 administers including Takagi, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and administrators of MEXT discussed the SPEEDI result and judged it was too serious to disclose.
Read moreInternal Document: ‘SPEEDI Result Is Too Serious – Can’t Be Disclosed’
– Brockovich barred from investigating mystery teen neurological illness (Natural News, Mar 4, 2012):
Last fall, 12 teenage girls at LeRoy High School in upstate NY started exhibiting Tourette’s-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts. Since thenfourteen teenage girls and one boy have exhibited similar symptoms.
Worried parents feared an infectious disease epidemic. However, a complete review of the air quality and mold in the school buildings by the state department of health and a private agency hired by the school found no substances that could cause health problems.
Read moreErin Brockovich’s Team Barred From Investigating Mystery Teen Neurological Illness
Related info:
On Tokyo:
– Tokyo Burns Radioactive Waste In 23 Incinerators All Over The City!!!
– Radioactive Japan: Contamination Detected In Tokyo Equal To Chernobyl Mandatory Evacuation Levels
Tokyo is finished.
Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University:
‘If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.’
And these are numbers brought to you by Asahi and it is only cesium!!!
Where are hundreds of tons of MOX fuel (containing plutonium and uranium)?
– Fukushima MOX Reactor 3 SFP Is GONE!!! (Video)
And scientists measured plutonium in Lithuania, that has been identified to be from Fukushima (not from Chernobyl).
– Scientists: Far more cesium released than previously believed (The Asahi Shimbun, Feb. 29, 2012):
A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say.
Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute, released the finding at a scientific symposium in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Feb. 28.
The figure, which represents about 20 percent of the discharge during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, is twice as large as previous estimates by research institutions both in Japan and overseas.
– Japanese tsunami debris ‘to reach Hawaii in next few days’ (Telegraph, Feb. 29, 2012):
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated the first bits of tsunami debris will make landfall soon on small atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands. The rest of the debris was expected to reach the coasts of Oregon, Washington state, Alaska and Canada around 2014.
NOAA’s tsunami marine debris coordinator, Ruth Yender, told an online news conference Tuesday that agency workers were boarding Coast Guard flights that patrol the archipelago. NOAA also asked scientists stationed at Midway and other atolls to look for the debris.
Read moreNOAA: Japanese Tsunami Debris ‘To Reach Hawaii In Next Few Days’
Reactor 3 SFP contained hundreds of tons of MOX fuel (containing PLUTONIUM and URANIUM)!
– Fuel storage pool of reactor 3 collapsed most of the part (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 29, 2012):
Having no-fly zone of Fukushima plants from 20km to 3km, TBS ANN caught Fukushima plants from helicopter.
However, they couldn’t find the fuel storage pool of reactor 3.
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Reporter ”Now we are zooming the 5th floor of reactor 3, where the fuel storage pool is. We must be able to see the top of the fuel storage pool at the very place. There “must” be the fuel storage pool in the center of the screen. However, we can not see even a part of the pool from the sky. (Scene changed)”
More info:
– Fukushima gov will use contaminated wood for building materials (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 28, 2012):
Fukushima prefecture is going to financially support local governments for tree thinning as forest decontamination as of April of 2012.
They are going to pressure Japanese government to include thinning as forest decontamination into the decontamination guideline.
They are planning to use the logged trees for building materials of reconstruction and woody biomass fuel.
71% area is forest in Fukushima.
Read moreFukushima Government Plans To Use Radioactive Wood For Construction And Biofuel
Recovery!!!
Worldwide: Recovery is … the Greatest Depression (& War is peace).
In Japan: Recovery is … being sacrificed to the God of nuclear power. (Japan is finished.)
“Well there seems to be a kind of plate glass barrier between the people and governments now, all over the world. The governments do one thing, and the people are kept in the dark. And nowhere is this more obvious than in Japan where people are now being sacrificed to the “god of nuclear power.” There is no other way of putting it, really.”
– Radioactive Japan: Contamination Detected In Tokyo Equal To Chernobyl Mandatory Evacuation Levels
– Japanese Ambassador to Italy to Italians: “Japan Has Recovered!” (EX-SKF, Feb. 29, 2012):
I have no information as to how the word “recovery” is defined in the post-“cold shutdown state” declaration Japan.
From Jiji Tsushin (3/1/2012):
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As one year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 disaster approaches, a symposium was held in Rome on February 29 where experts held discussions on the recovery of Japan’s disaster affected areas and on the issues that Japan and Italy face. In his speech, Ambassador Masaharu Kono thanked Italy by saying “We were overwhelmed by the “kizuna” [tie that binds; it originally meant “a leash to tie down or restrain animals”] (in the form of support from various countries)”. He declared “Japan has recovered”, urging for the resumption of the tourism to Japan and investment in Japan
Read moreRECOVERY!!!: Japanese Ambassador To Italy To Italians: ‘Japan Has Recovered!’
– Investors Behind Doomsday Seed Vault May Provide Clues to Its Purpose (Part 2):
The group of investors includes The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation, and the Government of Norway.
– African seed collection first to arrive in Norway on route to Arctic seed vault
– Scientists to capture DNA of trees worldwide for database
– Hungary to start the world’s first wild seed bank
– Experts prepare for lunar ‘Doomsday Ark’
– ‘Doomsday’ seed vault opens in Arctic
See also:
FILE – This is a Feb. 26, 2008 file photo showing the Svalbard Global Seed Vault near Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway
– Syria crops sheltered in Arctic doomsday vault (Deseret News, Feb. 28, 2012):
STOCKHOLM — Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural disasters, officials said Tuesday.
The latest additions mean that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — a master backup to the world’s other seed banks — has now secured more than 740,000 samples since it opened in a remote Norwegian archipelago in 2008.
That represents an estimated three-quarters of the biological diversity of the world’s major food crops, said Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which maintains the vault with Norway’s government and the Nordic Genetic Resources Center.
With the shipment from the Syria-based International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, almost its entire collection is now backed up in Svalbard, Fowler told The Associated Press.
“I think the events unfolding in Syria obviously underline the importance of having safety duplication outside of a country,” he said, adding the facility had not been damaged in the military crackdown on an anti-government uprising.
He noted that wars destroyed seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another one in Egypt was looted during last year’s uprising.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault — sometimes referred to as a doomsday vault — is designed to withstand global warming, earthquakes and even nuclear strikes.
– Ministry of Agriculture to Allow Rice to Be Grown in Almost All Areas in Fukushima This Year, Just Like Last Year (EX-SKF, Feb. 28, 2012):
except for a few districts where rice with high level of radioactive cesium exceeding 500 becquerels/kg was found in last year’s testing.
Well why not? The government didn’t stop farmers in Fukushima from planting rice last year, right after three explosions (possibly 4, counting Reactor 2’s Suppression Chamber) at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant released 650,000 terabecquerels (iodine equivalent) of radioactive materials. They apparently told some reluctant farmers if they didn’t grow rice they wouldn’t be compensated. So the farmers in Fukushima tilled the land, mixed up the contaminated soil and poured water in the rice paddies and grew rice. If they could do it last year, surely they can do it this year, and next year, and year after next year.
Farmers in the areas where rice with radioactive cesium between 100 becquerels/kg and 500 becquerels/kg was found last year will be allowed to grow rice this year, even though the new safety limit for radioactive cesium in food will be 100 becquerels/kg starting April 1, 2012.
Read moreMinistry of Agriculture Allows Rice To Be Grown In Almost All Areas In Fukushima
See also:
– Independent Investigation Commission on Fukushima Accident: Confusion from Interference by PM Kan and His Ministers Made the Situation Much Worse (EX-SKF, Feb. 27, 2012)
– AP: “Probe finds Japan withheld risks of nuke disaster” (EX-SKF, Feb. 28, 2012):
Here’s AP’s Japanese reporter’s take on the report by the private independent investigation commission set up by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation (RJIF).
One of the issues that AP focuses in the article below is whether TEPCO did want to abandon the plant on March 15. The private RJIF commission sides with the Kan administration that TEPCO did, and only PM Kan’s strong word persuaded TEPCO to keep a small number of workers to continue to work on the plant.
Read moreAP: ‘Probe Finds Japan Withheld Risks Of Nuke Disaster’
Flashback:
At this moment, one of the biggest risk is the SFP of reactor 4.
Japanese government talks they need to evacuate further than 250km (Around Yokohama), but this would be a lie as always.
Dr. Arnie Gundersen warns they need to go further than 450km.
Here FD puts the map just for your information.
– Tour of ‘fragile’ Fukushima nuclear plant shows shocking state of disrepair (Oakland Tribune, Feb. 28, 2012):
OKUMA, Japan — Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima power plant remains fragile nearly a year after it suffered multiple meltdowns, its chief said Tuesday, with makeshift equipment — some mended with tape — keeping crucial systems running.
An independent report, meanwhile, revealed that the government downplayed the full danger in the days after the March 11 disaster and secretly considered evacuating Tokyo.
Read moreTour Of ‘Fragile’ Fukushima Nuclear Plant Shows Shocking State Of Disrepair
– Life inside Japan’s dead zone (The Star, Feb. 25, 2012):
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
From the article:
“… the levels of ionizing radiation do pose a serious, long-term health effect as exposures can approach or exceed 1 rem per year for persons associated with future industrial, commercial, or residential development. Furthermore, when coupled with the possible incidental ingestion of radionuclide-contaminated sludge, these risks are increased as the radiation dose from the ionizing radiation component must be added to the radiation dose from the ingestion pathway. At this potential level of exposure the chance of leukemia, other cancers, or organ damage is greatly increased.”
– Public Health Assessments & Health Consultations (ATSDR)
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