Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 1:51 pm ET
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Title: Dose at Tsukuba(KEK)
Source: HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KEK
Date: Jan 24, 2012
Measured at: Oho 1, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan [50 km northeast of Tokyo, 150+ km from Fukushima]
Detector: GM counter (photo)
Below, the spike appears to begin around 20:00 on 1/23 and reaches almost 0.2 microSv/h, about twice the normal level:
The far right edge of the chart below shows the recent spike as the highest since April 2011:
Read the report here
Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 1:51 pm ET
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Wait till things really get going.
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we don’t have to wait long apparently…
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This is the time of the JIJI PRESS article came out 2012/01/23-22:41, and this is the time of the quake 20:18 JST 23 Jan 2012
TEPCO Notes Rise in Radioactive Leaks from Damaged Reactors, Jan 23 http://fukushima-diary.com/forum/latest-fukushima-news/tepco-notes-rise-in-radioactive-leaks-from-damaged-reactors-jan-23/
These time zones always baffle me. Is there a correlation here…anyone know?
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Major Tokyo quake more likely than government says: academics
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-japan-earthquake-idUSTRE80M0IQ20120123
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I am astonished about the low dose we see in those diagrams.
In Germany 0,1uSv/h is the standard level of the “background” radiation.
http://odlinfo.bfs.de/
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“In some countries in Europe, [whole body radiation] levels were higher at the time of the Chernobyl accident than during atmospheric nuclear testing. According to data from the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), 850 becquerels were recorded in Poland during the testing, but this jumped to 1,700 after Chernobyl. Readings also rose in Germany from 782 to 1,500 becquerels, while Austria experienced a drastic increase from 337 to 2,800 becquerels.” – Today’s Asahi http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/analysis/AJ201201230001
Using UNSCEAR as a source does not imply it’s a good one
See:
UN committee chairman studying Fukushima radiation impact: “We wouldn’t expect to see health effects” in children, workers, or anyone else
Top UN radiation official claims Fukushima “not expected to have any serious impact on people’s health”
Top Radiation Expert: 50 Bq/kg in humans leads to irreversible lesions in vital organs — Then top UN official refutes effects of internal radiation (VIDEO)
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AFAIK levels between 0.05 and 0.1 uSv/h are normal around the globe. Of course we had a heavy spike after Chernobyl and still have elevated numbers in southern Germany. Nevertheless the standard level is so low that we find statistically relevant deviations in leukemia probability in children around our reactors (same as in France, KISS study).
And yes, we experienced health effects after Chernobyl like a change in the balance of girl/boy birth.
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Hi tomb1,
I think you are right. 0,1 uSv/hr is very low and probably fake northeast of Tokyo. At least I don`t believe those values. Perhaps they were that low before march 2011.
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BTW all who still think nuclear power is bad, just google
Nuclear green safe future
It’s easy to find reliable information on the internet, now we have puters! Don’t know why not everybody does it. You know?
*peace bleep. Let’s leave it at that, ok?
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A nice free download if you don’t already have it is 3D earthquake. I’m sure you do Tacomagroove. It puts all quakes on the globe, and it has a easy user interface.
http://download.cnet.com/Earthquake-3D/3000-2054_4-10395116.html
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I agree.
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I typically use the instruments available at the University of Puget Sound. They have a great amount of live monitors and equipment for the research that I do.
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Pacific Lutheran College also has a great selection as well
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If you have an smart phone the Earthquake Alert app. is nice. It pushes earthquakes to your phone, it’s very fast. It can be set up for 2.5 and higher EQ’s.
Also recomended is the Tsunami Alert app. and the
Life 360 app. to locate loved ones in case of an emergency. Also good for tracking kids.
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Where can I check those apps?
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Would you please provide a URL for this? Or are you part of the University system and using monitors on site? Thanks!
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None of these earthquake monitoring systems including 3D earthquake, are telling you the truth about earthquake activity around the world. I can prove this instantly. Look at earthquake maps on the Internet at both these sites.
Latest Earthquakes in the World – Past 7 days USGS
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre
Last earthquakes worldwide for the last 48 hours
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/Map/gmap.php
Notice how many European earthquakes are not showing up in the USGS world
map, and vice a versa. There are tons of small earthquakes around Greece, and Western Turkey at present.
Also, a lot of major quakes are not published on either map, or they downgrade their intensity. I know because I have been watching this for years.
This article I wrote recently puts another spin on this.
Artificial Earthquake Creation Technology
http://sccc.org.au/archives/2440
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Agreed vital 1. Atlantic, Canary Islands info hard to get to, and when that goes will it be just ignored? 8 hours to evacuate the east coast. Southern Florida pan handlers have no chance. A mega tsunami would go completely over Florida.
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Next place with a spike in radiation: North America
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From Enformable dated Monday, January 23, 2012:
“The amount of radioactive materials released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture has increased when compared with the previous month, TEPCO said Monday.
The crippled plant released on average – 70 million becquerels per hour, compared with 60 million becquerels in December.”
Source: Yomiuri
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The accumulation therefore is massive. I have smelled a bleach-like aroma in the air everyday since about April 2011 and to me its smelling stronger… especially after a strong rainfall or storm system. I know Im a little extra smell sensitive but I wonder if anyone else is noticing something similar?
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Ever since the accident, in both Japan and the Pacific Northwest, I’ve noticed what I’d describe as a Band-Aid smell (not the sticky rubber part but the pad). I notice it when someone comes in from outside on their clothes. I have a really sensitive nose too.
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I’d be watching the Cascadia Subduction Zone, too. Of especial concern is reactor in Oregon (closed), reactor with SPF still onsite in Eureka, CA, near Triple Junction of the Juan de fuca, Gorda, and North American Plates (and San Andreas Fault). And then there is the Hanford site, also in the CSZ.
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I live 6 miles north of Eureka, CA and most people here are not comfortable with what was done with the spent nuclear fuel in Eureka although the government says that by encasing them in concrete and carting them to higher ground they will be safe for 60 or more years.
Here is an article with a picture of the containment vessels.
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/outdoors/2010/10/28/nuke-news/
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Dear Ruth, if the spent fuel is not stored in Galladium alloy (or other neutron inhibiting) casing and is not in inert conditions (no moisture and no oxygen) of some kind, the storage strategy is probably deeply flawed; but I need to read the article. One of the problems is that spent fuel gets more radioactive, not less, with time for at least 250,000 years.
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Dear Ruth: I love the part of the state you live in. Thank you for posting that article. I commented to it as follows: This is a terrible article. The nuclear industry has been under siege? Nice framing. The “industry” deserves to be under siege. There is no such thing as safe nuclear. The toxic life of spent fuel, no resource, is millions upon millions of years. Spent fuel comes out of reactors 1,000,000x MORE radioactive than the Uranium dioxide that goes into the reactor. Spent fuel then continues to become MORE radioactive for the next 250,000 years or longer. Why do nuclear power plants need to even change out the fuel in the first place? It’s changed out because it starts to have too much of the most toxic and reactive substance on the planet, with water and air, Plutonium, 2 million times more radioactive than anything else. Also, Plutonium is a nice neutron generator. Spent fuel also has a significant quantities of U-235, also a neutron generator. What’s the problem with U-235 and Plutonium if it happens to get a little too warm, a little too wet or a little too much O2? Well, Fukushima Cataclysm on 10 months of absolutely uncontained coriums from no less than three reactors that fully melted down, out and through their containments. Study Chernobyl to learn what we’re NOT being told about Fukushima or about nuclear power spent fuel that you absolutely better learn about and need to know. Documentary: “Chernobyl Heart” will set you straight to start.”
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Posted on one other comment im not spamming just think this is really important
http://theintelhub.com/2012/01/23/hot-rain-high-radiation-levels-recorded-in-michigan/
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Go to market on your phone. Type in search box for Earthquake Alert.
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Earthquakes 23 – 24 January 2012
1. 03:19 JST 24 Jan 2012 36.6N 141.1E 40 km 3.9 Ibaraki-ken Oki
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120124032311391-240319.html
This earthquake is 57.0 mi (91.70 km) Sfrom Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 28.9 mi (46.51 km) ENE from Tokai Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 29.1 mi (46.80 km) ENE from J-PARC
This earthquake is 64.9 mi (104.4 km) NE from KEK, Tsukuba Science City
2. 22:43 JST 23 Jan 2012 37.9N 142.0E 40 km 4.0 Miyagi-ken Oki
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120123224730391-232243.html
This earthquake is 62.9 mi (101.3 km) NE from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 44.0 mi (70.84 km) SE from Onagawa) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 35.4 mi (56.95 km) SW from March 11 earthquake 9.0
20:45 JST 23 Jan 2012 37.1N 141.2E 50 km 5.1 Fukushima-ken Oki
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120123204915391-232045.html
Magnitude 5.3
Date-Time
• Monday, January 23, 2012 at 11:45:42 UTC
• Monday, January 23, 2012 at 08:45:42 PM at epicenter
Location 37.093°N, 141.040°E
Depth49.8 km (30.9 miles)
RegionNEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances14 km (8 miles) ENE of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan
68 km (42 miles) ESE of Koriyama, Honshu, Japan
90 km (55 miles) SE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
194 km (120 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertaintyhorizontal +/- 16.3 km (10.1 miles); depth +/- 8.5 km (5.3 miles)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0007qh4.php
Using USGS coordinates:
This earthquake is 22.8 mi (36.70 km) S from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 15.4 mi (24.84 km) S from Fukushima Daini (#2) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 9.77 mi (15.72 km) S from Hirono [oil-fired]Power Station
This earthquake is 49.5 mi (79.65 km) from Tokai Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 49.9 mi (80.36 km) from J-PARC
This earthquake is 84.3 mi (135.7 km)…
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3. 20:18 JST 23 Jan 2012 37.3N 142.4E 10 km 4.5 Fukushima-ken Oki
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120123202309391-232018.html
This earthquake is 75.6 mi (121.6 km) E from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 75.6 mi (121.6 km) E from Fukushima Daini (#2) Nuclear Power Plant
4. 18:18 JST 23 Jan 2012 35.6N 141.0E 40 km 3.9 Chiba-ken Toho-oki
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120123182222391-231818.html
This earthquake is 63.8 mi (102.6 km) SSE from Tokai Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 63.3 mi (101.8 km) SSE from J-PARC
This earthquake is 64.1 mi (103.1 km) SE from KEK, Tsukuba Science City
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Fukushima #1 37.422972N 141.032917E
Fukushima #2 37.316389N 141.025556E
Hirono [Oil-Fired] Power Station 37.233N : 141.015E
Onagawa nuclear power plant: 38°24′04″N 141°29′59″E
march 11, 9.0 38.322°N 142.369°E
Tokai NPP 36°27′59″N 140°36′24″E
J-PARC 36.4584988N 140.6081772E
KEK, Tsukuba Science City, 36°08′55″N, 140°04′37″E
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“The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (高エネルギー加速器研究機構 Kō Enerugī Kasokuki Kenkyū Kikō), commonly known as KEK, is a high-energy physics research organization in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Its two major accelerators are the 12 GeV Proton Synchrotron and the KEKB electron-positron collider where the Belle experiment is currently running.
“It also contains the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) and was the source of the neutrinos studied in the K2K experiment.
“KEK is also associated in the J-PARC proton accelerator under construction in Tokaimura. “
Coordinates: 36°08′55″N, 140°04′37″E
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/KEK
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Tokai No. 2 leaks 22 tons of water
Oct. 27, 2011
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111027a4.html
Smoke alert at Tokai II
10 October 2008
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Smoke_alert_at_Tokai_II_1010081.html
Picture of Cherenkov radiation surrounding fissioning nuclear fuel submersed in water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Advanced_Test_Reactor.jpg
from Wikipedia article of nuclear accident in Japan 1999:
Tokaimura nuclear accident
“The direct cause of the criticality accident was workers putting uranyl nitrate solution containing about 16 kg of uranium, which exceeded the critical mass for the precipitation tank. The tank was not designed to hold this type of solution and was not configured to prevent criticality.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident
Lat (DMS), 36° 28′ 0N, Long (DMS), 140° 34′ 0E
Latitude 36.4667 Longitude 140.5667
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/JA/14/Funaishikawa.html
#Japan #Earthquake: Trouble at Tokai Nuclear Power Plant
March 13, 2011
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-earthquake-trouble-at-tokai.html
Tokai nuclear power plant is 70.9 mi (114,1 km) south of Fukushima Daiichi
Criticality accident at Tokai nuclear fuel plant (Japan) (Sept. 30, 1999)
(last updated 14 Dec 2010)
http://www.wise-uranium.org/eftokc.html
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Advanced_Test_Reactor.jpg
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Pictures of J-PARC [linear accelerator] in March, 2011 after EQ and tsunami:
http://j-parc.jp/picture/2011/03/StatusEnglish0328.pdf
First successful test run for J-PARC after earthquake
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2012/today12-01-05.html
and
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2012/01/05/j-parc-completes-first-successful-test-run-after-earthquake/
Map of 9.0 EQ 11 March 2011 and J-PARC and KEK
http://www.triumf.ca/headlines/director/our-japanese-friends-family-collaborators
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Anne, are you saying, much like vital1, that the accelerators are creating the earthquakes intentionally, or, if not with intent, then creating conditions that would create areas or regions that would be more vulnerable to earthquakes because they were geologically destabilized, something akin to the nuclear fracking for gas? The motive is greed, damn the aftereffects. Maybe in this case, scientist gone mad?
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QuakeFeed by artisan for iPhone http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quakefeed-world-earthquakes/id403037266?mt=8
Going to the KEK site and looking at what they found right after the first explosions were isotopes like Tellurium-132 http://legacy.kek.jp/quake/radmonitor/GeMonitor2-e.html
which is supposedly only from nuclear fission so the explosion back in March were wither the core or recriticality interesting discussion at the Berkley Nuclear Schools site.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2665
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Earthquake and Tsunami alert apps…
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.joshclemm.android.quake&hl=en
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