Published: February 8th, 2012 at 8:48 pm ET
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Title: Translation of Kyodo News Article
Source: Kyodo
Date: Feb 7, 2012 at 18:45
Japanese to English Translation by Rooks
各地で６日午前９時から７日午前９時までに観測された最大放射線量は、３～６日と比べ、関東や関西を中心に多くの地域で上昇した。
According to MEXT, radiation levels rose from the period of 9am on the 6th to 9am on the 7th across the Kanto and Kansai regions when compared with the previous 3 days.
文部科学省の集計によると、福島で０・９００マイクロシーベルト、茨城で毎時０・０８７マイクロシーベルトにそれぞれ上昇、愛知は０・０６２マイクロシーベルトと昨年３月１４日以降の最大値を更新した。北海道は０・０２７マイクロシーベルトに減少した。
Fukushima registered at 0.9 μSv/hr and Ibaraki at 0.087μSv/hr. Aichi prefecture measured in at 0.062μSv/hr which was the highest recording since 3/14/2011. On the other hand, Hokkaido decreased to 0.027μSv/hr.
Read the report here
Note that most government measuring devices are located well above ground level, in some cases on top of buildings. Typically, radioactivity levels increases the closer one gets to the ground. Though the actual measurements are not the focus here — rather the issue is: What’s causing the noticeable radiation spikes that are higher than these locations have seen in months?
Via atmc.jp:
Aichi
Osaka
Shizuoka
Tokyo
Special thanks to ENENews user rooks for the translation. Their work is much appreciated.
Published: February 8th, 2012 at 8:48 pm ET
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Look at Tokyo’s increase on Jan 25.
That increase is higher than Aichi’s spike over the last 2 days.
That doesn’t make sense to me.
Can anyone explain?
Are these measures reliable?
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I would say these readings are conservative at best because they are from government facilities. It could be from the ashes they are burning all over Japan or from Daiichi itself. They way the Japanese government has spread radiation all over the place makes it very hard to know where it is coming from.
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@majia
From Jan. 25: Radiation dose spikes thoughout Tokyo area around time of yesterday’s quakes (CHARTS) « ENENews.com
Title: National radioactivity concentration
Source: atmc.jp
Date: Last updated Jan 24, 2012 at 17:30 JST
All MEXT monitoring stations in and around the greater Tokyo area showed significant spikes in radiation. This includes Tokyo (Shinjuku), Saitama, Kaangawa, Chiba, and Ibaraki.
Yesterday’s M5.1 quake in Fukushima occurred at 8:45p, about 30 minutes after a M4.5 hit nearby.
Earthquake Times:
Wind patterns just after M5.1 quake show air currents moving south from Fukushima toward Tokyo:
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The rooftop radiation monitors do not reflect the radiation levels at ground level. But they do indicate when new radioactive releases happen. That’s what they were put there for.
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How long before Tokyo is evacuated?
Are they practicing for this now?
Has this been discussed lately by the PTB?
Are plans being worked out and implemented?
Watch!
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WTF IS GOING ON WITH LIVE FEED BY TEPCO!!
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I told you last week.
It was a primary containment breach on reactor 3′s lid. Its sinking in at the seems. It is also likely cracked in the middle (on the interior) with the seems surrounding it sinking in and cracking…
Thats high energy gamma radiation.
Hence the constant smoking in the primary containment area of the reactor 3 core.
The heat is degrading the entire unit. It is holding at the bottom so it is damaging the top. Its chaos at its finest. Front row seats to the end of the world.
Breaking News: Whistle-blower talks, container vessel is melting like honeycomb
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/breaking-news-whistle-blower-talks-container-vessel-is-melting-like-honeycomb/
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Remember
Nuclear fuel implodes.
not explodes.
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glad to see your still around tacoma. i muse have missed that, i do remember the honeycomb article though. after watching the feed for the last few minutes it looks more like gamma radiation than snow. it reminds me of the feed when they went into r2. so yeah i agree.
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I am watching BOTH live feeds and do not see anything. What am I supposed to be seeing?
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@ Agreenroad.
10:03 pm – 8:31 am
your about 10 hours late to class
there was only about a 20 minute episode of high energy gamma emitters interfering with the webcams optics. Which is especially note worthy being that the camera was reported to have a radiation filter recently attached to it *hence the line showing in the center of the tepco cam that was added in late june.
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Hi Taco, I thought reactor 3′s lid is gone since March??
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IS IT SNOWING???
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State Health Dept. Monitoring Shoreline For Radioactive Waste
Agencies Anticipating Tsunami Trash To Hit Hawaii Shores
Catherine Cruz KITV4 News Reporter
POSTED: 5:11 pm HST February 1, 2012
UPDATED: 11:17 am HST February 2, 2012
http://www.kitv.com/r/30355254/detail.html
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What should have be done a year ago, are they really talking about it ?
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It was there for some time after march… (there is a video of the fuel bundle crane perched across the lid of the containment. while steam is being vented through the cracks in what appears to be the containment dome / lid).
Many users are confused about the state of reactor 3 right now. I may even be…
from what I have understood
It is now In my opinion the spent fuel pool is missing. and has been ejected from the reactor 3.
While the containment dome is badly damages and releasing large amounts of decay.
A recent youtube video that has confused many users shows several views of reactor 3 and 4. the user then compares them to each other stating that the Lid is not in the right area in unit three. (as compared to unit 4). However the reactor 4 was allegedly planned to be recommissioned at 4 O’clock in the morning on 311. (see:http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/nuclear-fuel-reactor-4/) If that were the case it is very likely that the reactor 4′s primary containment dome was positioned off the primary containment vessel for refueling purposes.
This would make alot of sense. Debunking the containment theories on reactor 3 and give some closure to the sfp argument on reactor 3.
They found plutonium 60 miles from tokyo. I imagine its from the spf. As the core is designed to withstand a nuclear inferno vs. The spent fuel pool which was not.
Also I have a feeling tepco already stated the reactor 3 sfp was empty for hours following the ”obvious” nuclear explosion. Although I am too tired to link search at this time.
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News from TEPCO..Reactor 4 “might” have had a partial meltdown. Thats hard to do with an EMPTY reactor..so yes, probably loaded.
One other comment.and this is a terrible thought..those RADIUM bottles..were like metal tubes..what do you want to bet they were really parts of the fuel cells which were ejected? Anyone have a good photo of the “radium bottles?” That certainly makes more sense than someone dropping something with those kind of radiation readings around a grocery store parking lot.
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