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Iodine-131 reported in Tokyo — 10 of 12 sewage plants test positive in December

Published: December 27th, 2011 at 9:57 am ET
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Breaking news : Increasing leakage of Iodine131, Fukushima Diary, Dec. 27, 2011:

[...] In December, Iodine 131 was measured at 10 of 12 sewerage disposal plants in Tokyo. The samples are dehydration sludge, taken from 12/1~12/6.

Source: http://www.gesui.metro.tokyo.jp/oshi/infn0579.htm

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Published: December 27th, 2011 at 9:57 am ET
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28 comments to Iodine-131 reported in Tokyo — 10 of 12 sewage plants test positive in December

  • jahdesm jahdesm
    December 27, 2011 at 10:04 am

    so, ongoing fission?


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  • batista
    December 27, 2011 at 10:09 am

    Could most likely be it. Could be remains from copious quantities from an earlier fission, could be from peeing cancer patients…Could also mean that the radioactive idodine that was internalized by human beings is finally released after having done its harm…


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  • unspokenhermit
    December 27, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Decontaminating hospital toilets is a major source of exposure for some med techs, and I-131 is ALWAYS found in sewage cake of any city with a hospital that does iodine therapy.

    I just stumbled upon this study detailing high altitude radioactive contamination from Fukushima. It uses TEPCO and MEXT emission data to develop dispersion models of the radiation. If the models are correct the concentrations of contamination at upper altitudes are orders of magnitude higher than the concentrations at near ground levels.

    http://www.datapoke.org/blog/8/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-radioactive-contamination-dispersion-utilizing-chino-m-et-al-source-terms/


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    • Bobby1
      December 27, 2011 at 11:19 am

      Most of the radioactivity is still in the upper atmosphere and hasn’t come down yet. Something like 75% of the plutonium is still in the jet stream.

      The red aurora that was visible in the southern states hasn’t happened since the 50′s with the nuclear bomb tests. The radiation is way, way up there.


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
    December 27, 2011 at 11:05 am

    Pneumonia cases hit new 10-year-high (probably all-time high, though)

    http://idsc.nih.go.jp/idwr/kanja/weeklygraph/18myco.html


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  • radegan
    December 27, 2011 at 11:05 am

    “TEPCO and Japanese authorities have discovered a teenaged Thomas Edison is behind the wave of Iodine 131, having created a working table top reactor in Tokyo. The young inventor won his now contaminated school’s Science Fair and TEPCO has offered him a scholarship in nuclear physics. TEPCO’s President told the young inventor, “Next time make sure you can vent the Iodine where no one can find out. Do that, and we have a job for you.” *

    *Another false press release by an ad man seeking employment making better, more creative excuses for TEPCO.


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    December 27, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Hey, we have to add to the ‘normal’ list of radioactive iodine sources that do not involve FUKU;

    trees
    pollen
    leaves
    composting
    medical patients
    cancer therapy machines
    hospital toilets
    bomb testing from the 60′s
    ‘old’ iodine from previous fission events, being excreted
    hospitals
    lack of smiling
    weak women, with infections
    too much stress and worry
    high altitude radioactive contamination finally coming back down
    dirt
    water

    Yup, it has officially been determined that radioactive iodine being found in high amounts around Japan is ‘normal’, due to all above causes. It is definitely NOT due to ongoing fission events at FUKU.

    It cannot possibly be due to release of radioactive iodine from the out of control 65 ton radioactive fires happening in at least three reactors and possibly spent fuel pools, because the government has declared ‘cold shutdown’.. That means these fires need to obey orders and stop fissioning and melting downwards, wherever they are. After all, we all know who is in control and who is boss, and who tells us what to believe.


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    • jec
      December 27, 2011 at 11:25 am

      FOOD! Add to list causing radioactive iodine…


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      • pure water
        December 27, 2011 at 11:52 am

        Air! Then water.


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        • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
          December 27, 2011 at 1:27 pm

          Since this radioactive iodine seems to be coming from the air, water, ground, trees, pollen and food, it must be GOD’s fault, and we should start getting mad at him… :( Grrrrr. This must be NATURAL, cause it certainly could not be coming from FUKU, as they said it was in cold shutdown.

          Let’s all blame God for everything around radiation, because if he had not made it, we would not be using it. So it is all God’s fault, right? Why is he not zapping all those evil dudes who created this mess? Again, blame God for not zapping them all with lightning bolts.

          No need to clean up anything, no need to seek justice. No need to find a better way…. just blame God. Let’s sit here and complain about it for the next oh, maybe thirty years.. until we all die of cancer.. The end.

          How is that for a fairy tale?


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  • pure water
    December 27, 2011 at 11:55 am

    Radioactivity and radiotoxicity of corium lost 3 of Fukushima.

    After 280 days of decay the 257 tons of corium lost three reactors Fukushima supposed to have been consumed to 14 GWd / t (14.43 kg per tonne fissioned) present a radiological activity likely to 180.37 million Curie namely 6.674 E18 Becquerel (PBq 6673.6).

    92.17% of this activity is emitted by fission products and amounts to 28.07% of the total radiotoxicity. 7.83% of this activity is the result of activation products and amounts to 71.93% of the total radiotoxicity.

    Radiotoxicity, which according to the dose factors of the very official ICRP amounted to 73.47 billion of potentially lethal doses by inhalation and 15.53 billion of potentially lethal doses by ingestion is mainly produced by activation in all are alpha emitters.

    The radioactivity is mainly here against by fission products, which are generally negative for beta emitters. After these 280 days this radioactivity decay is essentially the following elements: Strontium 89 to 2.265%, 4.713% for 90 Strontium, Yttrium 90 to 4.713%, 4.852% for 91 Yttrium, Zirconium 8.067 to 95%, Ruthenium 106 to 9.297 %, 4.737% for Cesium 134, Cesium 137 to 6.209%, 6.209% for 137 Barium, Cerium 144 to 23.744%, 13.728% for Promethium 147, Plutonium 241 to 5.505%, 1.410% Cobalt 60.

    Radiotoxicity for its part, depends mainly on the following: Strontium 90 to 2.055%, 0.120% for 90 Yttrium, Yttrium 91 to 0.591%, 0.366% for zirconium 95, ruthenium 106 to 1.351%, 0.585% for Cesium 134, Cesium-137 for 0.541% to 21.135% Cerium 144, Promethium 147 to 1.172% to 12.025% Plutonium 238, Plutonium 239 to 10.106%, 10.865% for Plutonium 240, Plutonium 241 to 16.000% to 7.202% 241 Americium, Curium 242 to 13.179% , Curium 244 to 2.009%, 0.246% Cobalt 60.

    In 15 years this fuel will be lost, respectively, the measure taken 280 days, 80.20% of the radioactivity will be reduced to 35.71 million Curie of long-lived but its toxicity against emerge strengthened by 13.35%…


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    December 27, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    So the ICRP is saying that FUKU released

    73.47 BILLION lethal doses (by inhalation)

    AND

    15.53 BILLION lethal doses by ingestion

    Total

    88.00 BILLION Total lethal doses of alpha radiation only?

    Did I get this right?

    Who is this ICRP?


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    December 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    http://www.icrp.org/

    “About ICRP
    The work of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) helps to prevent cancer and other diseases and effects associated with exposure to ionising radiation, and to protect the environment.

    Since 1928, ICRP has developed, maintained, and elaborated the International System of Radiological Protection used world-wide as the common basis for radiological protection standards, legislation, guidelines, programmes, and practice.

    ICRP has published more than one hundred reports on all aspects of radiological protection. Most address a particular area within radiological protection, but a handful of publications, the so-called fundamental recommendations, each describe the overall system of radiological protection. The International System of Radiological Protection has been developed by ICRP based on (i) the current understanding of the science of radiation exposures and effects and (ii) value judgements. These value judgements take into account societal expectations, ethics, and experience gained in application of the system.

    ICRP is an independent, international organisation with more than two hundred volunteer members from approximately thirty countries across six continents. These members represent the leading scientists and policy makers in the field of radiological protection.

    ICRP is funded through a number of ongoing contributions from organisations with an interest in radiological protection. “


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  • arclight arclight
    December 27, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    The ICRP bag o water model is a rare and protected species! You must lower your head when you speak its name!!… well almost.. some are trying!!

    COMARE and CERRIE Chairmen ignore science and
    accuse Meacher of bullying

    We are preparing a critique of the inadequacy of CERRIE’s majority report – the gag, the leak and the spin doctoring we are seeing presently. Watch this space for news of its publication. In the meantime see if you can make any sense of their Technical Annex 4A paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 – it’s where they dismiss the increase in infant leukaemia after Chernobyl.

    Finally, CERRIE’s conclusion can be summarised as – Well, there are lots of new discoveries and lots of uncertainty, but no evidence that ICRP has got it wrong. After three years! The Greenies on the Committee think this is radical. Why? COMARE has advised Ministers that on the basis of CERRIE’s Majority Report nothing needs to change. Uncertainties may mean risks are currently overestimated.

    One CERRIE member also thinks that although the Seascale leukaemia cluster is real its cause remains a mystery – we may have to revisit the doses. What can this mean? Answers to conundrum@llrc.org please.

    http://www.llrc.org/countingthedead.htm
    oh look busby! :) new video!!


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    • pure water
      December 27, 2011 at 1:52 pm

      Watch everywhere! If they say so, then comes “WHY?” Then comes “Underestimation or overestimation?”
      Anyway – it is good to see. And have in mind. We are searching and do not need to fit in models.


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      • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
        December 27, 2011 at 2:46 pm

        One would think that science would be first and foremost with the nuclear industry, but it seems that science is in last place, after politics, money/greed, corporate protection, etc.

        The airline industry is a model of scientific reason applied the industry. If an accident happens, they pull it apart, use scientific reasoning and then apply the lessons learned to ALL AIRLINES and ALL AIRCRAFT.

        This seems to the LAST THING in anyone’s mind that has anything to do with the nuclear industry. The only people trying to apply science are here and there, independent, outside of the industry and regulatory agencies.. That does not bode well for the future of humanity, seeing as how one accident like this can wipe out all life on Earth, and still may, due to FUKU.


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        • pure water
          December 27, 2011 at 3:08 pm

          You are right about air planes! When people fly, they are just vulnerable living creatures. It has been the same all the time and everywhere, but people did not see it. Money and power are simply instruments and people have used them in a wrong way, making them some kind of idols. Believing in them is the path to slavery of scientists, journalists, political figures. While, we all are just human beings, dust in the wind or shaddows on the wall. Sometimes even the worst and most delusioned people remember this and it is high time for them to remember!


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  • Mauibrad Mauibrad
    December 27, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    RADIOACTIVE IODINE HAS ONLY A FEW DAYS HALF LIFE. THIS MEANS WITHOUT A DOUBT, FALLOUT IS STILL EMANATING FROM THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI REACTORS AND THAT “COLD SHUTDOWN” HAS NOT BEEN REACHED. IT ALSO MEANS THAT RESIDENTS OF TOKYO ARE GETTING A STEADY DOSE OF RADIATION. LOOK FOR MASSIVE THYROID PROBLEMS IN TOKYO AND NORTH OF THERE.


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  • James2
    December 27, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    Of course it is. I pointed out to you folks a clear fire at the SFP3 last week.

    Today a huge amount of radiation emanating from the wreckage was visible – even on the highly pixellated Tepcocam.

    There’s no doubt fission is happening.

    I’m just worried about the amount I saw. If the heat source at Fuku is large enough to cause a giant heat updraft, that erases clouds in the sky – as nuckelchen has shown us, then it’s headed closer to what TacomaGroove has been talking about – a huge supercritical event that consumes the site.

    That could potentially release 20X as much radiation as had been released up to this time instantly. Needless to say, that would be bad.


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  • pacific
    December 28, 2011 at 5:41 am

    Good xdrfox and mauibrad for spelling it out for visitors: the half life of I131 is 8 days, that means in about 3 months, it’s nearly all gone. Has to be a big source of *fresh* I131, seems like, big enough to be showing up in 10 out of 12 sewage plants. Even if it’s passing out of Fukushima residents, it would still have to be less than 3 months old. That’s best of my understanding.

    Majia, the way I remember it, short answer is that ICRP is the group that set the standards the USgovt/MSM used, when they were declaring exposures to be entirely safe, back in March. All based on 1950′s guesses re:external exposure, not internal at all.

    I think the history is that in late 1950′s the US, England and France started to realize nuke tests were going to have health effects, and decided to set some international ‘safe’ standards for exposure, so civilians couldn’t sue them. (I think I read all this at the llrc site). Set up a committee to figure out what could be designated as ‘safe’ exposure levels. Committee consisted of nuclear physicists (who were interested in being able to continue nuclear testing, etc) and radiologists (who needed to figure out career safety levels).

    The committee had 2 subcommittees, one for internal exposures, one for external. The folks assigned to determine safe thresholds for internal exposures couldn’t do it fast, and asked for more time, but the chairman rushed things and just took the external exposure subcommittee’s figures, and said it would apply for both (and so, 50 years later, we’re still being told x-ray exposures can be equated with inhaled or ingested radioactive materials, thanks for that ICRP).

    They came up with their threshold, but US doctors forced them to lower it bcs it was too high, so they dropped it by a factor of 10 (sounds so sloppy, doesn’t it?). And then, since they were ultimately allied or merged with a radiologists’ group that went back to the 1920′s, they now claim to have…


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  • pacific
    December 28, 2011 at 5:43 am

    started in the 1920′s.

    Or something close to that. Llrc site would be the place to read up on that if you want to get a history that’s not filtered thru my spotty memory :)


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