Breaking News: After the quake of 1/1, Fukushima had fallout more than 30 days of Nov, Fukushima Diary, January 5, 2012:
- After the earthquake, it turned out that the fallout amount in Fukushima from Jan. 2 – Jan. 3 spiked up to be 558.1 Bq/m2 (Cs-134 and 137)
- The total fallout of Fukushima of November was only 347.7 Bq/m2 for 30 days
Fall-out increased in Chiba after the quake of 1/1 too, Fukushima Diary, January 5, 2012:
- They measured rapid increase of fall-out in Fukushima from Jan. 2 – Jan. 3, but they also measured fall-out in Inage Chiba
- From Oct. 31 – Dec. 26, they had not measured Cs-134 and 137, but they measured 54 Bq/m2
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Could be EQ related releases, but also could reflect snow having an excellent ability to pull radionuclides out of the air.
Just a thought, either way it’s bad.
It looks like Seattle-Vancouver is the target, it should be arriving soon or is already there.
Based on current jet stream flow? If so, which source model are you using?
I’m using the NCEP analysis:
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller
500 mb altitude (18,000 feet). New releases take more time to make it to the jet stream (300mb = 30,000 feet).
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller?prevPage=Model&MainPage=index&image=&page=Param&cycle=01%2F05%2F2012+12UTC&rname=UPPER+AIR+PARMS&pname=500_vort_ht&pdesc=&model=GFS&area=NPAC&cat=MODEL+GUIDANCE&fcast=003&areaDesc=North+Pacific+-+Western+US+Alaska+Western+Canada+Hawaii+North+Pacific+Ocean&prevArea=NPAC&currKey=model&returnToModel=&imageSize=M
Thank you.
Bobby, I know how to read a topographic map, but what do the lines mean on the images with millibars (such as what one gets when clicking through on 2nd link you posted above)? In other words, if the bands are closer together, what does it represent? Just a band with a certain no. of millibars? In other words, does it only represent an area, or is does it show some sort of intensity? (On a topo map steepness of slope is indicated by the spacing of the lines).
Thanks.
At this point, I think it’s appropriate to ask you if you know of some online info. discussing how to read the maps. Am unfamiliar with meteorology, thanks.
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/basic/isopleths/
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/76/
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/
Those are isohypses or isopleths. They are contours of equal geopotential height. The colored areas are areas of higher vorticity. The particles tend to collect in them. Look at western Alaska, there is a stationary trough. Anchorage recently had its highest beta radiation readings since at least the beginning of September.
The wind barbs point to where the wind is coming from, and the lines and triangles on the barb indicate wind speed.
That’s a 60.5% increase.
Cracks underground may have also release gases/steam built up allowing a faster release, but also consider criticality at a fuel pool !
Sure would be nice to know the status of SPF #4. We’re approaching/have reached the window of time when the water level would drop to the top of the level of the top of the fuel. That’s based on the information given a couple of days ago — on the rate TEPCO reported the water level in SPF #4 was dropping.
HoTaters,
Yes Jan1 quake made it drain more quickly, the may have not been prepared and so criticality took place !
As far as normal Earthquake activity goes, Japan still hasn’t seen a large aftershock of 7.6 or greater from the lacation of the 9.0… It still could be coming .. can come a year or more after …
Yes, Articles, Part of the reason they are shutting down all the reactors and there is the fallout too from Fuka get in areas of other reactors above the limits to live or work, the whole island has detected radiations now, how high is mostly unknown in many areas !
Large Aftershock of Japan Quake Strikes
“Japan has been rocked by hundreds of aftershocks since the deadly quake on March 11. The largest aftershock was a magnitude 7.9 quake that struck less than an hour after the main shock. A magnitude 7.7 also struck that day. Today’s aftershock is the third largest. [When Will the Aftershocks in Japan End?]
“The latest aftershock struck about 41 miles (66 kilometers) east of Sendai, and 21 miles (34 km) west southwest of the epicenter of the magnitude 9.0 quake. The quake ruptured 25 miles (40 km) below the Earth’s surface.
“The rule of thumb for aftershock strength is that the biggest aftershock will be about one magnitude smaller than the mainshock….”
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/1163-japan-aftershock-magnitude-7-110407.html
And the question remains: “Is it an aftershock or a foreshock?”
JET STREAM UPDATES
http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_pac_h120_00.gif
Where in Fuku Prefecture?
Around the reactor complex?
Somewhere in the exclusion zone?
In Fuku City itself?
From how many monitoring locations?
Any warnings issued?
This is how i measure cesium with my spectrometer. And you are right about the new target for increases in Cesium and so on.
The radiation levels will continue to rise, while the level of reason and ingenuity and the ability to deal with this Armageddon will decline exponentially.
Fukushima /the globe is rapidly running out of engineers/phys-assists/unskilled labour willing and/or able to carry out the necessary works.
How many people today know how to change a spark plug or a tap washer?? It is generally assumed that because I-Phones exist, there must be lots of engineers able to give their lives and perform the ultimate sacrifice to go perform a nuclear dig, or hold a spanner somewhere. Or become strapped to a radiation measuring device with runners on, as was the case when a few candidates for discovering how to become burnt toast were still available early on.
The Russians had better than Japanese white paper allergy masks to begin with.
A tiny movement here, or a screw loose there, and the more qualified of the Hosono hoper’s will be down to not even knowing what the fridge looks like and so it will continue in this pattern throughout the world.
Where are the Japanese military? Where the US soldiers. Well they were out dumping depleted uranium on people in some war to save us from turbans with suspicious suitcases, or opening up new military holiday resort bases in Darwin/Australia more recently…
In Chernobyl, they did not have I-phones, or people that had lost touch with screw drivers and such. The human ability is much lower than it once was though it might appear differently. I have kids and i know the new
There are hundreds of NUkes plants throughout the world, and i am certain beyond any doubt that there will come a time when they will merely be abandoned to fry in the context of earthquakes, and Carrington events and things we cannot predict..
That simple!!
The spectrometer and measuring devices though i own one are…
Continued…..The spectrometer and measuring devices though i own one are only a cosmetic device….
I measure the ‘increase’ in radiation by the ‘decline’ in the reason of man generally.
I’m sensing a change of tone over at The Economist, plus some idle thoughts:
I was wondering if there’s another tack we can take here, and wrap it up in a motto for the website, something like:
The Paul Revere of Our Impending Demise
Helping the Nuclear Industry Not Kill You and Your Babies
Here to Help
Helping the 100% Get Their Collective Shit Together
Together We Can Do Better
We covered this in my recent university course, how to encapsulate in one pithy little motto what you’re really trying to say, or what your objective is. (It’s hard to do, but somehow useful – forces you to really think what you’re trying to accomplish). I know, it forces you to leave out a lot of details that we need, but it also gives you a kind of weapon, like a spear, to bring people together and stop them acting like idiots.
[from the Economist]
http://www.economist.com/node/21542437
Since the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979, it has become axiomatic to assume that complex systems fail in complex ways. That was broadly true of Fukushima, though often the failures appear absurdly elementary. In the most quake-prone archipelago on earth, TEPCO and its regulators had no accident-management plan in the event of earthquakes and tsunamis—assuming, apparently, that the plant was proofed against them and that any hypothetical accidents would be generated only from within. TEPCO had, in the event of nuclear disaster, an off-site emergency headquarters just 5km from the plant that was not radiation-proof, and so was effectively useless.
Pu239Thanks for that info. I need hope.
Assuming there is a continuous release of radiation from FUKU, it would make sense that the radiation increases after shaking.
Why? A couple of 65 ton melted blobs of corium are jostled around, stimulating them and possibly causing mixing of things that were just sitting there, thus releasing more radiation.
Result? Higher radiation levels all around for everyone.. all FREE.
Any thoughts?
AGreenRoad, James 2
Go look at pics, the other building roof away/across from toward sea, the plant building has a HUGE hole in it about the size of the top of reactor, I saw it also in March when pics released !
Hey kids. Shoes tied and watch this forecast if you havent seen it already…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADniv2tBD8A
Hugs to all.