Published: October 14th, 2011 at 9:26 am ET
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Tokyo, Oct. 14 — Setagaya Ward officials said the recent detections of high levels of radiation were “probably” not fallout from the Fukushima meltdowns. (Japan Times, Oct. 14)
Recent reports have linked the radiation to bottles of paint stored underneath the floor of a nearby home. (BBC, Bloomberg)
However, the hotspot is centered around a wooden fence and “it remains unclear whether the two radiation finds are linked,” reports the Japan Times.
Radiation of 2.71 microsieverts per hour was detected at the fence on October 6. Measurements were taken again Thursday with a reported preliminary reading of 3.25 microsieverts per hour detected above a nearby sidewalk. (Daily Yomiuri, Oct. 14)
Professor Masahiro Fukushi, radiation specialist at Tokyo Metropolitan University, said radiation levels of nearby trees is about a half or a third of the levels found at the fence. (Japan Times, Oct. 14)
Officials took samples of tree leaves over the fence to determine what type of radioactive material is involved. (Mainichi Daily News, Oct. 14)
Published: October 14th, 2011 at 9:26 am ET
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Their shields are going up. Lock phasers on target.
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QUICK burn that fence!!
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Everyone on west coast North America….inhale deeply. Tokyo sends their radioactive love. Your precious “News” shows will never tell you.
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Spock, set them to stun.
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Notify Starfleet Command.
Transport to surface inadvisable.
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“link unclear” because “link inexistant”
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Since all Tokyo citizens gonna become glowing colours…blaming 60 year old Flourescent Paint Cans is brilliant deception of responsibility by Tepco and Govt.
…Besides, not many people living in Tokyo.
…Easy to relocate them to Haiti or Etheopia
red red wine
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Spock is right – they are shielding severe problems in the plants, leaking this information about the contamination and playing with it. The contamination is a real problem, serious, grave one, and we know that it will become more and more severe. But what about their crippled reactors? Hydrogen in reactor 2 as well. And then? If TEPCO as a company has the right to hide information, why do not they hide to themselves all this hideous radioactivity? Watch out, something may happen soon.
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Obama will ship them to the US, in exchange for more votes, using a newly concocted stimulus bill entitled FUKU YUKU. Wow, no hope and change for planet Earth this time. Stock up on your protein!!
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+1 for your stock up on protein message
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They tested fuku rice with a geiger counter held for 3 seconds over the samples, and cleared them.
All below provisional safety limits…
The Pacific tfree trade pact is being signed to enable some of the pacific rim countries free trade with the U.S.
Japan is looking into signing up too. More fuku rice for all…
GREAT ….
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prison food gets an upgrade is all.
Death row chow line is way shorter path than the hot chair route.
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Anybody see this crock a doodie? The house owner is revealed as 90-year-old woman…says she had never seen the bottles before.
http://www.insidejapantours.com/japan-news/2103/towns-sigh-of-relief-over-radiation-panic/
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Even freakier…read this collection of about twenty reports on the magic bottles:
http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_b42/radiation-tokyo-plant.html#hdng1
My favorite: “Investigators found the radium under the floor of the house in Tsurumaki 5-chome and readings suggested an elderly woman who had been living there until February may have been exposed to radiation 30-times safety levels.”
SP: Oh…so the old lady had been gone from the house since a month before the crisis began. So who had the keys to the house lately? The main stream world scarcely cares… but the average Japanese citizen has some suspicions. As do I.
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@ Sickputer “average japanese citizen has some suspicions” What suspicions do you & the citizens have? regards IK
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