Published: October 13th, 2011 at 7:21 am ET
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SOURCE: Radiation levels spike at locations in Tokyo » Breaking News, Xinhua, October 13, 2011:
TOKYO (Xinhua) — Radiation levels at areas in Tokyo and Chiba prefectures were found Thursday to far exceed current levels in Fukushima prefecture [...]
[...] a children’s amusement park tested positive with 5.82 microsieverts in the Funabashi district of neighboring Chiba prefecture, local authorities said Thursday.
[...] the latest readings taken from inside the evacuation zone in Fukushima prefecture [...] measured 2.17 microsieverts per hour, according to local prefectural officials. [...]
Read the report here: Radiation levels spike at locations in Tokyo
Published: October 13th, 2011 at 7:21 am ET
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These readings are deadly! Why Japan GOV doesn’t protect their own people. I wonder, how winter will affect to radioation. It’s a fact, that snow is far more worse than water what comes to radiaditon spreading
Russia had their own holocaust 1986. It’s odd to see, that they was lot more conserned their peoples and worked hard to prevent a bigger accident, many lost their lives at the site.
I can’t imagine how hard concern, that millions of peoples will suffer because of FUKU and, most sad thing is that coming generations doesn’t have any way to protect themselves.
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Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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Let’s see how the elite Tokyo deal with radioactive hotspots where their kids are playing. It was a different matter when Fukushima residents were asking for help.
Radioactivity respects no boundaries and no caste system. The figurative gloves are now off and the real gloves (and masks) will soon be standard fare in Tokyo. I hate to say it again, but they are one step from a long scary ride on a fast train. The slow radioactive train wreck is picking up steam by the hour. The Tokyo Flight is now set in motion.
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Some Japanese people are already slowly and stealthily moving to the United States. Everything is hush hush though. The migration will occur quietly, I imagine, without any explanation given regarding the reason why.
The US Japanese immigrant population will grow quickly in the coming years if not months.
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I’m a doctor not a journalist, but with the coverage finally focusing on the sad truth of a radiated Tokyo and Honshu, I fear mass urban panic is right around the corner. Get ready for the quiet to get noisy.
McCoy out.
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Very true Zardoz. I am seeing this as well.
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“Some Japanese people are already slowly and stealthily moving to the United States”
which is bizarre, as the US seems like quite a hot candidate for the next meltdown(s). Or France? Who knows…
But still a good thing that they get their bums in gear at last.
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I might add… Don’t wait too long to leave Japan. When the refugees are very contaminated… Let’s say by summer 2012, your visas will be no good in many countries. Harsh as it seems, no country will want dying people to overwhelm their medical system. The ones who emigrate now have a chance to assimilate into another country…later the refugees will not get that chance.
I am not trying to scare people… Just pointing out the future as I see it developing.
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Good point sickputer. The longer they stay, the worse it’ll be for them. Other countries won’t want them coming contaminated. This will not end well. I’m sure many don’t have the resources TO leave. Their between a rock and hard place.
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Morning Whoopie and SP
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Thats only 31680 cumulative micro sieverts (external exposure)… to-date…
6 Micro sieverts x 220 days x 24 hours in a day… = 31680…
Strike me if I am wrong wouldn’t that equal:…
316 millisieverts. or,
3.16 Sieverts. ?
Right?
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Damn
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It would be nice if there was an emoticon for Death. ;P
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SI multiples and conversions
Frequently used SI multiples are the millisievert (1 mSv = 0.001 Sv) and microsievert (1 μSv = 0.000001 Sv).
An older unit for the equivalent dose, is the rem,[3] still often used in the United States. One sievert is equal to 100 rem:’
1 rem = 0.01 Sv = 10 mSv
1 mrem = 0.01 mSv = 10 μSv
1 Sv = 100 rem
1 mSv = 100 mrem = 0.1 rem
1 μSv = 0.1 mrem
I think I did the math wrong and its possibly: .0316 or .316 sieverts. Either way. Wow. pack your bags.
Sorry, been up reading on magnetic current all night. (oh the joys of science)…
My thoughts:
Its very typical of the media to slowly raise the bar. Hence the entire history of this crisis…
So expect that my math does not matter. Tokyo will soon be forced to evacuate. As the USA will be forced to slowly raise the bar as well. Hence why our defenses (national radiation monitoring) is offline…
(west coast to evacuate soon). < – that would be my guess…
Lynch mobs anyone… Tokyo, fukushima? hello…
If I could only be on wall street right now provoking rioting…
Sighs…
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I calculate 6 microSieverts is 0.006 milliSieverts. My calculator says .006 mSv/hr x 24 x 220 = approx 32 mSv in 220 days, but the radiation in that one spot is “new”(?). So with a little LUCK — and they sure do need it! — hopefully nobody in Tokyo has yet got that unhealty cumulative dose.
32 mSv is “only” 0.032 Sievert
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I had a feeling hence the above correction…
Cnn is already trying to calm the sheep:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/asia/japan-radiation/?hpt=wo_c2
Tokyo (CNN) — An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said.
Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.
“We are shocked to see such high radiation level was detected in our neighborhood. We cannot leave it as is,” Hosaka told reporters.
But the tsunami-struck Fukushima plant may not be the source of the radiation, Hosaka said later on state television.
Officials searching for the cause found “glass bottles in a cardboard box” in the basement of a house in the neighborhood which sent radiation detectors off the charts, he said on NHK.
“We suspect these bottles in basement could be the cause of the high radiation reading and we are hastily working to confirm it,” he said.
Radiation experts are now checking what contaminated the bottles, a Setagaya ward official told CNN, declining to be named in line with policy.
They told the local government there are no immediate health hazards.
Radiation levels just a few feet from the contaminated spot are normal, Hosaka said.
The Tokyo scare comes a day after officials in…
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Its obvious Tokyo has extended its radiation / threshold.
Evacuate immediately…
Are they even doing radiation monitoring south of tokyo… I have seen little reporting on areas in southern Japan…
I suppose If the levels were high there the question of evacuating tokyo, would be rhetorical…
Why they prefer to murder their own citizens above evacuating them immediately… God only knows…
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=) lol.
I hate that you cant edit posts. all to often I pop in and shoot in anger. (without double checking).
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The typhoons have brought to the south that the winds from the north did not, eastern coast highly contaminated waters have been pulled up and dispersed over the entire island is my bet, aquifer is contaminated also from underground source’s as well as lakes and rivers, a lot of flooding accrued and I posted video’s of them (and these were not typhoons, just extremely heavy rains, contaminates in the atmosphere to produce rain ?)
Need to evacuate was immediate from ‘beginning’ and top people (Government’s) knew this I am sure !
They had thought out (think tanks) what if, scenario’s !
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cool, we both posted almost the same time.
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jinks you owe me a coke
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Good Morning Mary Ellen, Good Morning John-Boy…
Hey Tacoma, if the CNN release of keywords threshold
is at this level, as you say, it is obvioud code-word to
whatever Wise there may be, that have Means to Flee.
But “Evacuation”, my dear sweet Heart….?
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I have a feeling its comoing sooner than later…
imagione occupy wallstreet multiplied by 30. I.e. 30,000,000 pissed off tokyians
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sorry my typing is experiencing technical difficulties.
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Tacoma, don’tcha Love It: “Bottles in the Basement–
could be the cause of the high radiation reading and
we are hastily working to confirm it,”
….
What is that fancy language about the Absurd becoming
the Sublime or somepin’?
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Ok a bit better on the maths
Given the global average exposure per year of 3.0 millisieverts
2.17 microsieverts / hr was the lower level mentioned in the article
hmm this equates to ~ 19.0 millisieverts per year.
or 6 times above normal background.
this is a cumulative lifetime exposure rate of 1.141 Sieverts/Lifetime
Criterion for relocation after Chernobyl disaster: 0.350 Sv/lifetime
So more then 3 times higher
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1XvPaQXFIU
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sorry, just waking up. i just thought it was interesting that shell is advertising energy solutions in japan. thats what the youtube link is
“lets provide energy for the next generational” irony?
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@ bmurr — Sorry to say that the experts say we can EASILY destroy this planet by burning ONLY natural gas, even if we stopped coal and oil combustion tomorrow. bummer indeed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM656m8TeyY
…so you see, the only ethical, moral and practical way out of this corporatist nightmare is small scale renewables; “Small Is Beautiful”
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I don’t disagree with you I just wanted to point out the irony of shell capitalizing on the fear of nuclear in tokyo
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Its funny cause its ironic…
Too soon?
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The ridiculous idea that there will be Any Market to Buy
any Shell Products is the ironic carry-to-conclusion…
Who is gonna have any so-called “Money”…?
They are industrious folk, the Japanese…
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Yes, and an unspoken Push for the coal-gas
boondoggle pipeline.
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The ridiculous idea that there will be Any Market to Buy
any Shell Products is the ironic carry-to-conclusion…
Who is gonna have any so-called “Money”…?
They are industrious folk, the Japanese…
with china and russia talking about US as a “parasite of dollar” the “eat money” picture comes to the tables everywhere. That part of the story is not japan specific.
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This makes me remember a video I watched early on of a man stressing out in a you tube video ,not knowing what to do over there. I wonder where he is now.
Video was dated Mar 27th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qd3PKdeU6w&feature=fvwrel
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Watch the video.
Real.
His sorrow is my sorrow. Our sorrow.
So sorry Mother Earth. So sorry….
So sorry for Japan. For the Northern Hemisphere. For the Southern Hemisphere.
The poisoning ends…never
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Mother Earth won’t give up without a fight. The human race might be doing all it can to destroy life on earth, but she will have something to say about it.
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I do no believe into 6uSv/h in Disneyland,
this must be a mis-reading,
on the other Side: it is located on a Landfill
and we do not know what is in the Ground!
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Where did you get that figure for Disneyland Human?
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Afaik the only children’s amusement park
in Funabashi Area!
When you look into a Map it is very easy to see!
Regards from Tokyo
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Oh, i am deeply sorry,
this is not Disneyland,
it is the “Hans Christian Andersen Theme Park”,
please excuse me!
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“Meanwhile, radiation of 5.82 microsieverts per hour has been detected at an amusement facility in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, according to a citizens’ group.
The group said it measured the radiation Wednesday at a height of one centimeter in a place where rainwater falls from a gutter at a two-story facility in Funabashi Andersen Park.
Alerted by the group, the municipal government examined the location Thursday but only recorded 1.41 microsieverts per hour. The municipal government said it will measure the location’s radiation level again.”
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111013005715.htm
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