Published: July 25th, 2012 at 6:35 am ET
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Title: Strontium 90 levels in Kanto, Tohoku rise after Fukushima meltdowns
Source: Mainichi
Date: July 25, 2012
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The nationwide airborne survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology found the higher levels in 10 Kanto- and Tohoku-area prefectures (excluding Miyagi and Fukushima, where strontium 90 was detected in soil samples). The study results did not confirm whether other regions had been affected by the release of the element in the nuclear disaster.
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The highest level found from 2000 to before the Fukushima nuclear disaster was 0.3 becquerels per square meter in Hokkaido in 2006. The highest level in the recent survey was 6 becquerels in Ibaraki Prefecture, while elevated strontium 90 amounts were also found in Gunma, Yamagata, Saitama, Iwate, Kanagawa, Chiba and Akita prefectures, as well as Tokyo.
Published: July 25th, 2012 at 6:35 am ET
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Strontium-90 half life-28 years. Seeks bone tissue…
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thats not all it seeks
Health Effects of Chernobyl
25 years after
the reactor catastrophe
april 2011
"..Genetic and teratogenic damage (malformations) have also risen significantly not only in the three directly affected countries but also in many European countries. In Bavaria alone, between 1000 and 3000 additional birth deformities have been found since Chernobyl. We fear that in Europe more than 10,000 severe abnormalities could have been radiation induced. The estimated figure of unreported cases is high, given that even the IAEA came to the conclusion that there were between 100,000 and 200,000 abortions in Western Europe because of the Chernobyl catastrophe. .."
of course the nuclear companies rely on cultural pressure not to talk about this subject.. and it generally works..
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/chernob_report2011webippnw.pdf
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Evaluation of Environment Radiation Monitoring Results
Original released on April 25, 2012
Nuclear Safety Commission
"..(Note 1) Limits of the radioactivity in the air outside the peripheral monitoring area boundary as
specified by the law are 5×10-6Bq/cm3 (5Bq/m3) for I-131, 2×10-5Bq/cm3 (20Bq/m3) for Cs-134 and 3×10-5Bq/cm3 (30Bq/m3) for Cs-137.
(Note 2) Limits of the radioactivity in the water outside the peripheral monitoring area boundary as specified
by the law are 4×10-2Bq/cm3 (40Bq/L) for I-131, 6×10-2Bq/cm3 (60Bq/L) for Cs-134, 9×10-2Bq/cm3 (90Bq/L) for Cs-137, 3×10-1
Bq/cm3 (300Bq/L) for Sr-89 and 3×10-2Bq/cm3 (30Bq/L) for Sr-90…."
".. Although Sr-90 was slightly higher than the range of
measuring results before the incident at Point E1, we cannot evaluate the effect of the
incident from the results…"
more her with links to japanese only pdfs
http://www.nsc.go.jp/NSCenglish/mnt/120425.pdf
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The nationwide airborne survey conducted by the Ministry of Education??
yet the documents appear to show that the measurement is taken 1 meter above ground or comes from the monitor stations (fixed)
only fukushima and miyagi have soil tested but not anywhere else??
heres the link to recent monitor postings including an update 25 july 2012
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/en/list/192/list-1.html
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they should have done a thourough check on the soil
"…Strontium-90 is relatively mobile and can move down through soil with percolating water to groundwater.
Environmental transport of strontium is strongly influenced by its chemical form. Strontium preferentially
adheres to soil particles, and the amount in sandy soil is typically about 15 times higher than in interstitial
Strontiumwater (in the pore spaces between soil particles); concentration ratios are typically higher (110) in clay soil.
As a note, many years ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established a maximum
contaminant level for strontium-90 in public drinking water supplies. That value based on extant dosimetry
models is 8 pCi per liter (pCi/L). The value using current, improved dosimetry models would be 36 pCi/L…"
http://www.evs.anl.gov/pub/doc/strontium.pdf
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@arclight…well written sir…..
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You can bet any nucleocratic study is lowballed by a factor of ten or more. There's a new boogie word on the block…bone-seeking strontium. The kind of fear that my generation grew up with is about to hit the Japanese people when they get better informed.
Won't take long…bad news travels fast and this is news Tepco has been reluctant to share.
Madness in Japan… The samurai spirit is rising in the streets.
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and yet they still maintain that we can eat fuku octopus, and swim in waters not too far away up the coast??
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Strontium-90 and Human Health
Unpublished personal note by Ernest Sternglass for Radiation Public Health
"Another reason why low dose exposures to fission products such as Strontium-90 is so serious is that protracted exposures over periods of days, months or years were discovered by Petkau to be much more damaging biologically than the same dose received in short diagnostic medical exposures or flashes from a nuclear bomb explosion by factors of hundreds to thousands of times"
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Strontium-90-Sternglass8nov03.htm
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Threat. No monitoring imminent.
Monitoring. No imminent threat.
Threat imminent! No monitoring!
Monitoring imminent threat? No.
No monitoring – imminent threat?
Eminences emanate evasive evidence,
indicating unacceptable preferences,
promoting unreliable references,
condemning children to death sentences.
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stumbled upon this piece about:
J Clin Invest. 1963 July; 42(7): 1095–1104.
doi: 10.1172/JCI104795
PMCID: PMC289378
STRONTIUM AND ITS RELATION TO CALCIUM METABOLISM*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC289378/?page=1
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you gotta love scientists..
they say here that all strontium not found in urine or faeces after testing Sr 85, will be found in the bone.. a bit of an assumption there maybe?? check the equations that "keep us safe" on further parges!! ouch! we are so doomed if our lives have to depend on algorythmic rubbish like this..
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC289378/?page=3
lol!
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Yes Arclight! i was amazed while reading this and wondering about the money spent(maybe even read: bribe) on downplaying all the effects of the vast amount of different nuclides..
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Read the Japan Times version of this story:
Radioactive strontium detected in 10 prefectures. Japan Time July 25 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/radioactive-strontium-detected-in-10-prefectures
The article states that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science found the HIGHEST level of strontium in Ibaraki at "6 becquerels per square meter."
Then, lower in the article, it states that the Japanese paper, the Tokyo Shimbun, reported on a press conference held by the Koto Association for the Protection of Children. This association had conducted independent research with Prof. Tomoya Yamauchi of Kobe University.
The Koto Association study found cesium levels of 230,000 becquerels per square meter at an athletic area near Tobu sewage sludge processing plant in Tokyo.
I BET STRONTIUM IS MUCH HIGHER than 6 becquerels per square meter
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isnt it multiplied for the to get the m3.. 6 bq/m2 sounds less..
am i right? gotta go out ..
you have to love japan today
lol!
its like the japanese version of the "sun" newspaper…
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Concentrations of 90Sr in the Dnieper River, which drains the Pripjat River near Chernobyl, were up to ten times greater than cesium concentrations, probably due to the ability of cesium to become absorbed on suspended particles… and the high solubility of strontium in fresh water.
http://www.davistownmuseum.org/cbm/Rad7b2.html#russia
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The NRC simulation showed that 3 times as much strontium as cesium was released from unit 1 during the meltdown stage. There is reason to believe that there is a lot of strontium-89 and -90 around… but these soil measurements, 16 months after the fact, are misleading. Cesium binds to soil, and strontium is more water soluble. Strontium doesn't stick around in the soil, it drains into the water supply. This is why it is more of an environmental threat. You can say the same thing about americium – as plutonium-241 decays into Am-241, it starts leaching into the water, and this will occur increasingly over decades.
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one correction
"Cesium binds to soil,"
depends on the soil.. i think sandy soil binds strontium better than clay… i think or its the other way around..
ultimately the strontium 90 makes its way to the water table at different rates depending on soil structure.. obviously there are differing patterns of bioaccumulation from deep roots, shallow roots, dependent on time.. CS137, 134 also behave in this type of way..
for the record..
it just complicates the differing levels of contamination dependent on time, rainfall, snow etc not to mention further releases of "disturbed" isotopes.. Arghhh pdf overload! helmet on, wind in the hair moment coming up..
great sleuthing bobby!
peace
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PROJECT SUNSHINE
http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2008/R251.pdf
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Good catch, majia.
"Thus at the end of 24 hr the cloud will be contained in a ribbon about 300 mi long, 4 mi wide, 15,000 ft thick, and about 1200 mi from its original position."
Think about the South Bend event. If you are unlucky enough to be under that 4-mile wide ribbon, you may be exposed to thousands of times as much radiation as others. Think about how widely dispersed the radiation monitoring stations are, and how seldom any of them would be under a 4-mile wide ribbon. I bet 99% of the time it never gets detected.
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These @#$%% have been lying about radiation and its biological effects since the 1950s…
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Body snatchers for radiation studies
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet15/brief15/tab_d/br15d2.txt
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"Dr. Bugher alluded in particular to the worldwide public
attention that followed upon the accidental irradiation of the
Marshall Islands following the March, 1954 Bravo test: (Tr. 2-3)
The events of this spring during the Castle [nuclear weapons
test] series were such as to bring very dramatically to the
public attention the fundamental character of the things
with which we are dealing and the necessity for precise
knowledge and good prediction…
By far the most important [gap] is human samples. We have
been reduced to essentially zero level on the human samples.
I don't know how to get them but I do say that it is a
matter of prime importance to get them and particularly in
the young age group."
Funny, but I have believed for many years that my mom's grave had been dug up… without tangible evidence though. This was way before I heard of Castle Bravo. I'm sure they will dig up my grave too.
Bravo was a test of a "radiation bomb" that could theoretically wipe out whole continents. Me and my mom were and are guinea pigs. There was no accident involved.
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EXSKF has a petinent article on Strontium-90:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/07/radioactive-strontium-was-detected-in.html
Basically the nucleocratic Japanese government is going down the same path as they did all the other bad news…release bits and pieces soft-peddled and then gradually upgrade the bad news.
The Strontium fallout graph from MEXT is a typical case of their early warning nonsense:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-svPtoo_A9zE/UA-VM7MOvgI/AAAAAAAAEK4/Hj0V6OvuEZc/s1600/MEXTSr90-7-24-2012JpnChemAnalysis.JPG
Look closely at the 1986-87 (Chernobyl fallout) spike and it is just a little smaller than the Fukushima 2011-12 spike.
Does any intellectual person above the age of 12 believe Japan received the same amount of strontium 5100 miles away from a much smaller single unit explosion in 1986 versus being in the epicenter of the massive 4-unit pileup at Fukushima Daiichi?
Go back and play with your Ouija board you disturbed MEXT nutcases. Noda is on the red phone to China trying to soothe their ruffled feathers. Fat chance.
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Typo "petinent":
Insert pertinent or petulant…take your pick. *;-)
BTW…HoTaters…hope your dog is not suffering and rallies. Lost my 2 year-old dog to unexplained fatal heart seizure earlier this year.
I am extremely unhappy with Japan's nucleocrats and their lackluster efforts to save the world. An amazing country of humans, but 10,000 people are displaying sub-human qualities.
Madness in Japan…
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Links don't embed at EXSKF in comments so I had to get to a PC to see these next two links.
Great comment from Anonymous about the Cesium graphs versus the lowball Strontium graphs from the MEXT nutheads:
"Cesium 137:
http://i45.tinypic.com/29mlq28.gif
Cesium 134:
http://i46.tinypic.com/6rk7lk.gif
Clearly, depositions of cesium 137 coming from the Fukushima NPP was/is more than ten times worse that what came from nuclear testing (graphs are log scale)."
Credit: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/07/radioactive-strontium-was-detected-in.html
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