Published: September 22nd, 2011 at 9:19 pm ET
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- Mistake? – Yesterday (September 21) The descent of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, was detected 330Mbq / Cesium 134 square kilometers, Savechild.net, September 22, 2011:
Looking at the findings of environmental radioactivity levels in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture yesterday, September 21, 330Mbq / Cesium 134 square kilometers (square kilometers megabecquerel /) is supposed to be descended. However, cesium-137 is “not detected” is. Or equipment failure or human error, I think this is a mistake for something? May know that it is not detected cesium-137. [...]
1 Megabecquerel = 1,000,000 Bq
SOURCE: pref.tochigi.lg.jp
*See the March radiation levels in Tochigi here.
Utsunomiya, Tochigi to Tokyo
SOURCE: Google Map
Published: September 22nd, 2011 at 9:19 pm ET
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Yikes! One last check in before retiring!
Posted here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-crosby/danger-signs-americas-so-_b_974335.html
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FYI — The Enformable website has some info from the beginning of Japan’s nuclear crisis attained through the Freedom of Information Act.
***”Reactor 3 core believed 50% uncovered in first 2 days”
http://enformable.com/2011/09/march-13th-2011-update-from-1530-telecon-reactor-3-core-believed-50-uncovered-in-first-2-days/
***”USS Ronald Reagan picking up airborne contamination”
http://enformable.com/2011/09/march-13th-2011-update-from-0730-telecon-fukushima-daiichi-uss-ronald-reagan-picking-up-airborne-contamination/
***”NRC sees no radiation at harmful levels reaching U.S. from damaged Japanese nuclear power plants”
http://enformable.com/2011/09/nrc-no-11-046-march-13-2011-nrc-sees-no-radiation-at-harmful-levels-reaching-u-s-from-damaged-japanese-nuclear-power-plants/
***”NRC unsuccessful so far in lead role”
http://enformable.com/2011/09/march-12th-2011-update-on-fukushima-daiichi-1530-telecon-nrc-unsuccessful-so-far-in-lead-role/
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Posted your INFORMATIVE COMMENT to the Nuclear Troll at HP. We’ll see if it appears ever.
Night!
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Thank you for all of your hard work.
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From the 2nd link – NRC memo on March 13th:
“Key message that U.S. government is support/assisting, continues to monitor, no risk to U.S.
NRC will issue PR only if needed to supplement the WH PR.
NEI/Marv Fertel may make the morning news shows.”
What does that tell you?
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That’s about 18,000 bequerels per square meter. Less scary when you put it this way. The Chernobyl evacuation standard was 550,000 per square meter. The scary thing is that the measurement in Japan went from “undetectable” to 18,000 in two weeks. The beast is back.
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“That’s about 18,000 bequerels per square meter.”
how did you come up with that number?
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That’s roughly the square root of 330 million.
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Actually the numbers in the chart can be translated directly into Bq/m2.
1 Km2 = 1,000m x 1,000m = 1,000,000 m2
1 MBq = 1,000,000 Bq
330 MBq/Km2 = 330 Bq/m2
Why they chose to put it in Mbq/Km2 is beyond me. It gives the impression that the whole Km2 has been tested for radiation. What probably happened was that they tested one small sample from within that Km2. To blow the results out of proportion like this is an attempt to obfuscate the real conditions. We all have seen reports of hot spots close to areas with very little radiation. The results in the chart above are useless at best.
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@bob hardin
that’s what i thought you did. actually, hemisfear311′s number is the correct one.
@hemisfear311
well put, what makes the use of a large scale unit like that even more bizarre is that right next to it they use millisieverts per square meter (and even that is technically written as Mega-sieverts per square meter… lol).
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Yes, it is..thanks for this clarification
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I lied. One last check brings this guy/NUKE TOOL who used to worked at Yucca Mountain Reactor. Weigh in or NOT. Night zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-crosby/danger-signs-americas-so-_b_974335.html
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CORRECTION:
He STILL works there.
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It’s still going critical every 2 weeks, the same way it has been since March.
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I think you guys will be happy with this debunking of the BBC:
http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/23/fukushima-bbc-debunked/
It made me feel good
The original documentary made me furious. So this debunking is just what I needed to see.
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From the video, the phrase:
“omissions of contrary evidence”
Yes, that’s a game they play. If the evidence doesn’t fit their agenda, ignore it.
And the IAEA? They’re entirely pro-nuclear-energy yet their headquarters is in no-nuclear-power-plants Austria.
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i think that journalist is lying and he knows it… his body language gives him away in my opinion… he was probaly handed that script….nice boots though…
thanks for that post ac
good to see the pro nukes being critically viewed… just like journalism used to be! err sort off anyway
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lol AC, I can’t even bear to watch the debunking – it has segments of the original show and I have blood pressure issues. Also the (probably really nice) guy narrating is somewhat softly spoken with a gentle turn of phrase. Whereas I think we are beyond the point where we need to start yelling – politely of course, and with due regard for our blood pressure
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I linked the whole one hour documentary in that link. The first time I viewed it I got so angry. Someone needs to email Jim Al-Khalili the debunking!
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Feckin bbc!! I remember the censorship of Gerry adams….lololol
“ To many people outside our field, both scientists and the general public, nuclear physics is no longer regarded as being at the forefront of scientific endeavour. Indeed it is often met with outright hostility. Other physicists will point out that the last time a Nobel Prize was awarded in the field was in 1975”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037594740500120X
And this too
“Issues concerning the management of the UK’s official radioactive wastes and associated surplus radioactive materials are summarised. The potential for partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of these materials is considered and associated potential developments discussed. The paper recommends international P&T research as part of a move to reduce the volume of nuclear waste. This reduction would be beneficial in addressing security and environmental concerns, as well as improving public acceptance of the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle.”
http://inderscience.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,7,9;journal,18,20;linkingpublicationresults,1:110843,1
let me just say this guy is
A/ a theorist scientist
B/ a PR boy trying to sell the goodies
C/ stupid in the ways of the effects of ionising radiation on living systems
D/ a dickhead (sorry admin tried to keep it classy but……arghhhhh!!!!)
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I found his blog. I love 2011. Everyone seems to have a blog!
http://www.jimal-khalili.com/category/blog
I would like an explanation from him on why he has participated in distorting the truth?
I’m fairly sure he knew he was lying the moment he said partial meltdown.
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I sent Al-Khalili this:
Hi Jim,
I respect your pro-nuclear views even though I am the opposite. I believe you owe the public an apology.
http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/23/fukushima-bbc-debunked/
My main criticism is of the BBC but you did partake in the lies and deception. I did not make the video contained in the link. But you can be sure it will circulate around YouTube. I hope you can be more honest to the public in future.
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George Monbiot is on his Twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/#!/jimalkhalili
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i just sent jim a message saying he has let me down, he has let himself down… i was disgusted within 5 minutes of the Horizon programme starting (BBC>>british biased crap).. shame, i used to like his programmes, now i cant bear to see or hear the hypocrite
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Nice letter Mate!
You threaded the needle perfectly between being courteous, yet DIRECT!
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btw, you can call me mate, but i am a lady!
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what mungo is a girls name?? lol
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In March, they detected Iodine-131 and Cesium-137 in Tochigi, and on September 20/21 they detected only Cesium-134.
If there was a re-criticality, wouldn’t they detect Iodine-131, too?
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I don’t know what their minimum detected activity is, but every re-criticality involves both I-131 and cesium. The point is that the corium which is going recritical is not cooling down, and is still burrowing underground.
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I think you’re totally right. And perhaps the new uber-ambitious cold shutdown announcements are because they view the *disappearing* coriums as *out of sight out of mind* kind of solution to a heinous meltdown problem. I mean, how can one achieve cold shutdown of escaped out of control corium blobs anyways? I think the degree of their game of radiation roulette is about to hit a kind of climax – it was a big mistake to let it move into the ground and water tables. We are about to learn a lot about radiation. These random spikes may suggest underground criticality processes. Fukushima seems to always be gaining in strength and power as time goes on. I think as well expecting specific behaviors to occur may be impractical due to lack of data integrity and completeness coming out of Japan.
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Kids are coming to Australia for holidays to escape radiation:
http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/23/fukushima-kids-given-respite-in-sydney-from-radiation/
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12875327
Japan nuclear crisis: Radiation spike report ‘mistaken
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/27/japan-nuclear-error-radiation-reading
Japanese nuclear firm admits error on radiation reading
Mistaken radiation readings given out by the operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant were “absolutely unforgivable”, the government’s chief spokesman said, as work to prevent a catastrophic meltdown faced fresh hurdles.
Mistakes?… “The ‘Mistakes’ were unforgivable because they tipped off the world 3 weeks in”… “We all know that the retraction of the last data posted was an accidental leak on their end”. So what makes anyone feel this one is any different… The only reason they pulled the one prior: It disagreed with their time lapse information release contingency… Physicists don’t botch these numbers…
These are the dumbest shenanigans Ive ever seen any respectable company pull. Its just to bad the average person is completely unaware how screwed our planet is now…
Oh well..
Lets keep kicking the dead horse until people are falling dead in the streets of japan… Hoo raa what a pitiful race humanity actually is.
It is a sad year for mankind…
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Probably an offspring of the typhoon? Either that or another reactor came unglued. There are 7 others, at two other plants. Oganawa and Daini. All have sustained dangerous damage.
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Was the spike before or after the crane fell onto Reactor #3 during the typhoon? And am I the only one to see correlation between the unhappy-dance of R1 and the EPA-registered levels hitting So Calif? Am currently watching for this 9/21 ditty to register on my beach so as to gauge lag-time between events and their arrival…
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The crane did not fall on unit 3 during the storm.
My goodness, I thought we got that sorted.
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Malformations in a Chornobyl-Impacted Region
http://www.scribd.com/doc/65925623/Malformations-in-a-Chernobyl-Impacted-Region
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