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Japan Times: High levels of strontium-90 detected 250 km from meltdowns — Officials “carefully examining where the isotope came from”

Published: October 12th, 2011 at 10:19 am ET
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SOURCE: Yokohama finds high strontium-90 levels, Kyodo, October 12, 2011

Radioactive strontium exceeding normal levels has been detected in sediment from atop an apartment building in Yokohama, some 250 km from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, city officials said Wednesday. [...]

[T]he discovery of 195 becquerels of strontium-90 in the rooftop sediment fueled concerns that leaked radiation may have spread farther than the central government expected [...]

If the substance is from the Fukushima plant, it will be the first time strontium at a concentration of more than 100 becquerels per kilogram has been found beyond 100 km from the troubled plant. [...]

Gov’t wonders if it’s from Fukushima

  • Officials said the city is carefully examining where the isotope came from.
  • “Radioactive substances tend to accumulate in sediment and so we still don’t know whether the substance found in this test came from the nuclear accident,” said an official of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
  • The science ministry said it is still uncertain whether the strontium came from Fukushima No. 1.

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10 comments to Japan Times: High levels of strontium-90 detected 250 km from meltdowns — Officials “carefully examining where the isotope came from”

  • Sickputer
    October 12, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Let’s see…”carefully considering where it came from”

    Mars? Venus? A-bomb test 1960s? Hiroshima 1945?

    Nearby faulty nuclear plant?

    Or maybe….drumroll….the plant with the major melt-outs!

    When will they become proactive and not always reactive! A citizen paid a company to do their job.

    I will have more to say about the arrogant Japanese nuclear industry and government bureaucrats later tonight. Partly about their refusal of help from the nuclear experts in Kiev who were in the Liquidators army at Chernobyl. Totally arrogant!


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    • ChasAha ChasAha
      October 12, 2011 at 11:31 am

      I’m betting they go with the 1960′s testing. That’s what they said here in California for some ‘stuff’ found near Sacramento.

      It’s that darn ‘deniable credibility’ thing again.


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    • Cataclysmic Cataclysmic
      October 12, 2011 at 11:47 am

      Not just the Japanese.. the industry. I suppose it is time we start responding to the “plausible deniability” thing with… well, since we are not sure where it came from, and we sure as hell don’t know how to deal with it.. let’s be sure we minimize all future sources of contamination… starting with Nuclear power plants… The industry and all it’s watchdogs have proven they are not adequate to defend the species, have gotten no closer on how to deal with the waste, have proven time and time again the plants leak and damage people, plants, animals, bugs, and every other life form on the planet. We have accumulated sufficient fall out, and leak out and waste to last until the next extinction event… oh maybe that is what we have done.. where is the Japanese military? where are the masses running in to try to stop, slow…whatever this mess? Where is the outcry from the world? Why the hell is TEPCO still in charge? Didn’t we learn that the company doesn’t have a clue or proper priorities from the BP thing in the Gulf? Which the supreme court has said tax payers (American) are on the hook for the rest of the clean up? OUTRAGEoUS!
      *Democracy..the gateway drug to Corpocracy.


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  • goathead goathead
    October 12, 2011 at 11:40 am

    Will be hard to deny as the building they found the strontium on is only 5 years old!!


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  • Bobby1
    October 12, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    Japanese baseball player that suddenly died had ventricular fibrillation. He was 26.

    http://www.nikkansports.com/baseball/news/p-bb-tp0-20111012-848637.html (Japanese)

    His mother said, “without any chronic disease, but even when it seemed fine over the phone about three days ago”.


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  • xdrfox
    October 14, 2011 at 4:43 am

    Just In: Yokohama City Just Confirmed Strontium-90 Existence in Rooftop Sediment

    The city was testing on its own, using the sample that had over 100,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium.

    195 becquerels/kg of strontium-90 has been detected from the sample that had over 63,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium. Both samples were taken from the same rooftop of an apartment building in Kohoku-ku in Yokohama City.

    Details to be announced later in a press conference, according to …

    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-in-yokohama-city-just-confirmed.html


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