Published: August 30th, 2011 at 1:08 pm ET
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Survey Finds Radiation Over Wide Area in Japan, Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2011:
The first comprehensive survey of soil contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant showed that 33 locations spread over a wide area have been contaminated with long-lasting radioactive cesium, the government said Tuesday.
The survey of 2,200 locations within a 100-kilometer (62-mile) radius of the crippled plant found that those 33 locations had cesium-137 in excess of 1.48 million becquerels per square meter, the level set by the Soviet Union for forced resettlement after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Another 132 locations had a combined amount of cesium 137/134 over 555,000 becquerels per square meter, the level at which the Soviet authorities called for voluntary evacuation and imposed a ban on farming.
[...] the latest data point to the possibility that cesium could also be washing away and spreading to other areas, potentially contaminating rivers, lower-lying land and the ocean. [...]
Published: August 30th, 2011 at 1:08 pm ET
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People in these areas obviously aren’t smiling enough.
If they won’t evacuate this dying Nation, At least EXPAND the evacuation zone.
I’m Canadian, but my concern for the Japanese people far outweighs my own concerns for imported goods.
My thoughts are with these poor people daily and nightly, it’s overwhelming.
I’m only 21, so all I know about Chernobyl is what I’ve seen in documentaries, all of which I’ve watched in the last few months.
The Battle of Chernobyl is a must-watch.
You’ll see many of the same lies.
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I’m only 21…..
Wow good on u just 21 and u care about others like that can u say good Karma?
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I watched Battle of Chernobyl at your recommendation and you’re right, it’s good.
The Russian government, like the Japanese government, withheld the truth, minimized the seriousness of the consequences, and raised the “acceptable levels” of radioactivity.
One difference: the Russian government mobilized half a million people to work on the cleanup and containment projects.
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haha I sure hope it brings me some good karma mikey, that would make my day!
Bob, I feel that Chernobyl was handled far better than Fukushima Daiichi.
If for no other reason than that six months later, they didn’t try to move people back in as close as 3 Kilometres from the blown to hell nuclear plant, as Japan’s Gov’t wants to do within a few months.
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I’m glad you watched that movie, btw!
Easily found on google videos, for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
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the fashion industry should get busy
and produce some stylish looking hazmat suits for
all the unhappy people before its too late
better safe than SORRY
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Hell, they’ve got airconditioned clothing, you’d think they’d have that too.
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our ‘dark humor’ may not sit well with some people,and especially the Japanese.
It is hard to not be cynical, I vascillate from cynical to crying sometimes on the same day.
Now we are up to 100 killometers. It gets larger and larger, and will continue to grow I fear.
I watched some vids on You Tube last night and am even more convinced that this tragedy will just continue with ‘band aids’ applied as there is no way to stop a monster like this, I don’t care how many months/ years they project.
They will continue poisoning, slowly the people of Japan and anyone and everyone downwind and the Pacific Ocean.
On another radiation subject. Keep your eyes out for ‘smart meters’ coming to a home near you, very near, like on your home or apartment building.
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Wasn’t the main Chernobyl exclusion zone only about 30 km? Are they saying this 100km area is equivalent in radioactivity to THAT zone?
Any parents who still have children living there MUST get them out of there immediately–NOTHING is worth staying in such a place for.
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http://www.stopsmartmeters.org
Smart meters are a scam!!! We have an ordinance against it here, and our sheriff is refusing to enforce it! We are working on recalling him.
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Yes true Smart Meters are radioactive check out DR BILL DEGAL on youtube
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I thought 550,000 Bq/sq meter was the Chernobyl standard for forced evacuation. Can someone straighten me out about this?
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Enenewites are in a unique position, with knowledgeable folks that care. So far, the only corrective action I have seen is a partial “tent” over the (one maybe) reactor.
I suggested this once before on here, but I believe the first thing is to gather hot materials. Perhaps a piece of equipment such as this:
http://www.bobcat.com/loaders/compacttrack
Either remote controlled or automated with infrared sensing to gather chunks of reactor rods (some blown more than a mile away). It would pick up anything warmer than a raccoon and place it in a container.
I spent much of my life designing and building automated manufacturing equipment. This is doable.
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Flap your link ‘page not found’. Maybe it’s already on it’s way to Fuku?
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OT
Reading earlier thread comes this advice from alasanon for OUR LIVERS which must be working OVERTIME these days:
Milk Thistle, Dandelion & Yellow Dock
http://www.swansonvitamins.com/SW1052/ItemDetail
Thanks so much alasanon!!
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Eat a peach.
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PEACHES found with higher than normal radiation back on June 8th, 2011.
“…in Santa Monica market with approximate background of 39 CPM – Two peaches sustained 81 CPM and above or over two times background (208% of site background).”
see article:
http://enenews.com/peaches-in-los-angeles-area-found-with-radiation-at-more-than-double-site-background-levels
If you start to add it all up. Well… it really adds up!
Milk Products,
Rice,
Lettuce,
Peaches,
Hot Dogs,
Seaweed,
Water,
Air,
Other UNKNOWN stuff,
Other STUFF yet to come,
Combined it will most certainly over my “acceptable limit”.
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…and don’t forget the fish and what used to be known as seafood.
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Seafood (worst from Fukushima or contaminated marine or freshwater environments waters anywhere, great bioaccumulators of dozens of different radionuclides) is the worst
then, meat and dairy. Remember that cheese is 8x the concentration, minimum usually, of milk. Remember that milk is derived from lymphatic systems and fatty tissues where many nuclear and non-nuclear (toxic chemical) contaminants are stored in high concentrations. Remember that it takes 186,000 gallons of water, likely now contaminated to some small degree at least, to produce one POUND of beef. The silage is indeterminately contaminated, as well. This has to be universally analyzed by the people and the people need to determine what is going to happen next. Not the established government, which is only going to stand in the way of the people.
Potatoes and other starchy, underground veggies (tubers) are the most contaminated non-meat based food.
I’m not certain about the tendencies of leafy veggies. I’ve read in here, but don’t know for sure, that contamination can be washed off. I’m not certain about how much various plant species store radionuclides in their leaf tissues.
I’ve read that beans, seeds and nuts are, perhaps, the safest things to eat; but I definitely need more data.
I have no idea how grains process radiation in the parts that we eat.
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When they burn the stuff, of course it is going to spread all over, Einstein.
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I belive its just one option and its highly dangerous.
They have to seal the surface and drill(hollow out) them self working space under the reactor sites, the equipment is in Japan already, no problem.
They have to take it out and bery it under mountains and I also belive that since the County of the surounding Fukoshima site, is eventualy the only usable plase to deposit radioactive surface soil and debrice.
Its basicly because its already heavily contaminated.
I belive its the only solution to this catasrofe. The tents just makes the site more contaminated if its sips op from the wery ground its in.
And again, the Japan gov and Tepco is still in denile on the scale of the radioactive fallout.
I belive Nothern parts of the Island(incl Tokyo) and Hokkaido is doomed, its just a matter of time(winter wind patterns). The spewing of highly radioactive steam is stil ongoing and it even looks like its escalating both the levels and the amount of Isotops.
The futsration over a massive waste of time involved in this. The total lack of seriousness and downplaying is still the dominant tema. Meanwhile the situation on the ground in Japan is getting steadily wurse.
peace
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Dont forget TOKYO that place will soon be toast becuz all of its water is slightly to heavily contaminated- The bottom of Japan that large rock below may escape more of the nasty ness maybe maybe not
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