Published: March 7th, 2012 at 1:37 pm ET
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March 7 tweet by of HCR_OPCOM translated by Fukushima Diary
[The black substance of Minami soma] After the snow and rain of several days, massive amount of the devilish black substance was mass generated on the arterial road of Minami soma. It looks as if it was earth and sand. called the decontamination office of the city government promptly, but they declined to say the interim storage facility is full. First of all, we shall decontaminate the school facility and road. We measured 50μSv/h.
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Published: March 7th, 2012 at 1:37 pm ET
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We have been hearing about this black stuff for months. The fact that no official explanation has been given scares the hell out of me. In this case "no news is bad news"
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PU !
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Is it emitting mostly alpha? If so, it is important not to have your eyes uncovered or any open wounds exposed within about six meters. Don't pay attention to it being black. Color and shade can be a false clue in vapor deposited metals and compounds or possibly in this case vapor collesced. Also, if extremely large amounts of alpha emitters are located in an area, they can generate small evaporation even if you don't notice a heat source or an acid pool.
In a case that I investigated, we encountered massive amounts of metal dust and tiny balls that were formed when vapor from acid pools with lots of metal ions mixed with ambient air. The pH rises as the vapor mixes with air and dust and balls literally rain on the area near the mix point. Each of the metals will precipitate in different pH ranges.
This may be the result of a similar action with large amounts of evaporation of metal laden and acidic water. However, in this case a portion of the metal may be radioactive.
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yeah radioactive roadside disgust
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Notice all the dead grasses along the drains. Dangerous stuff down there I guess.
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It's winter !
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Devilish, indeed!
People of Japan, rise up and make a difference! Have a nationwide "sick day" or a "blue flu" epidemic to shut down the economy and get worldwide attention focused on your most grave situation!
Hey! What are you waiting for? Do you think that it is better to be good little sheeple and let your children die before they can become adults?
Yes, it will be scary to disobey authority, but it is far more scary to sit back, do nothing, and watch your friends, family, and especially your children start dropping like flies!
Surely you must know what you are facing if nothing is done. And your government is cavalierly letting it happen! Stand up! Be heard!
Make a noise that will be heard around the world and focus international attention on the lies and deceit of the Japanese government. Shut down the economy for a day, a week, or whatever it takes to let the powers that be in Japan and worldwide, that there are serious consequences for their criminal activity! You are not going to stand idly by to die and be swept under the rug!
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It's OK, they have a pill for it now:
Fast alternative treatment for radiation exposure is promising
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/03/Life-Science-Health-Environment-Chemistry-Fast-alternative-treatment-for-radiation-exposure-is-promising/
"Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are developing a much more effective alternative that decontaminates a large number of the actinides likely to be part of the radiation exposure from a nuclear plant or weapon, including plutonium, americium, curium, uranium and neptunium. Furthermore, the Berkeley Lab treatment can be administered orally in the form of a pill, a necessity for prompt treatment in the event of mass contamination. Depending on the level of radiation exposure and how soon treatment can start, one of these pills would result in the excretion of approximately 90% of the actinide contaminants within 24 hours. Taking one pill daily for two weeks should be enough to remove virtually all of the actinide contaminants."
They also have swamp land for sale out back …
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beach front swampland?
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I have a bad feeling that in this context, "devilish" = plutonian
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I can't imagine all the black stuff is plutonium. There's too much.
I'd guess at max there was probably 300-400 lbs of plutonium possibly ejected from the #3 MOX core – likely less. That's not enough to spread that far and wide and it would be more radioactive than this.
It's possible that it's plutonium/uranium mix, but I think that too would be much more radioactive.
Somebody's going to have to put some of it into a container and take it to a lab they can trust that can test it – which is likely a much more difficult sequence than it sounds.
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Clarification – it's not enough to spread that far and wide in the quantities shown – It can easily spread much further and wider in microscopic quantities carried in the wind.
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Looks like mud to me… seems a much more plausible conclusion than plutonium.
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..perhaps …mud containing plutonium.
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Well, as usual the headline here is ridiculous. The "massive amount of mystery black substance" shown in the photo is most reasonably assumed to be sediment deposited by run off rainwater. Also known as MUD.
I would fully expect the sediment deposited by run off rainwater in most areas of Japan to contain radioactive substances as they were, and continue to be, deposited (and burned and redeposited) on the ground, which is washed by rain and those substances are concentrated in the sediment.
This isn't some sort of grand mystery. I have a VERY hard time believing that this roadside mud, the likes of which is seen anywhere in there is rainwater flowing over soil, is even 10% made up of anything other than dirt.
That small percentage which is not dirt is surely something to be upset about, but MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BLACK MYSTERY SUBSTANCE is a fricken joke.
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Apart from the therapeutic value gained from outing your own appetite for scorn, there is not much of other than literary value in this post.
For a start, the geometry of the site is unclear. Puddles are puddles, and they dry up. They do not generally – in temperate climates – leave a mass of mud.
References to this stuff all say "appeared".
It does not look as if dumped from a fly tipper.
If indeed some irradiated soil has been colonised by a variety of blue green bacteria/alga which just happens to thrive on the new conditions then "appeared" would just happen to be a very good word.
Of course, we're all much in the dark here, but damping down speculation with simplistic armchair reassurance is less than helpful.
Thanks for the stimulation though.
M
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just get samples with proven reliable witnesses and send to laboratories (should be possible to find someone)
speak about the results no matter if good or bad.
enough speculations about cheesy reprints of reality
if it ticks take samples, in case not report back please.
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"report" is the wrong word. sorry, far from native. just meant has to be tested. only because it is black does not mean it is pure MOX
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Whatever it is, it's emitting radiation, and starting to show up in various places.
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What's the mystery? Anyone who has seen the latest videos of the steam escaping between the reactors know's that this is from the corium burning through bedrock and hitting water. JMHO
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Please RESEARCH Phytoremediation
Grow cannabis and Sunflowers to LIVE. It works at Chernobyl.
Cannabis cures cancer too…
Mycoremediation works too but the benefits of Cannabis are needed NOW.
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this is not a surprise. Cs salts are all water soluble. rain/snowmelt disolves the dispersed contamination and flows to a low point (the mud puddle in the pic) and then evaporates leaving a concentrated deposit of Cs salts.
Minamisoma is just off the north edge of the main contamination plume shown here (let the script run)
http://www.nnistar.com/gmap/fukushima.html
most of the readings in the area were 1 to 5 or more microSv/hr at 1.0m
it'll only get worse.
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Has anyone noticed the road is cracked there. Did the substance just happen to settle there?
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probably because every time it rains there is a puddle formed there…
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Yes, I noticed the cracks. The way I interpret it, the cracks occurred some time ago (probably long before the earthquake) because the soil under the pavement settled, leaving a void. As traffic drove over the area, the pavement sank, leaving a depression into which runoff settles every time it rains.
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We call them chuckholes.
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Those just Japanese Government BS spill out
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plus TECPO
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should be TEPCO
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Could this be where they are dumping the basement water?
If yes, people should be out here with slurpie straws and cups, trying to suck it all up and gather it to take home with them.
Remember, according to Fox News Ann Colter, the more radiation you get, the more healthy you will be… as long as you keep smilin, or so says the chief medical officer in Fuku Province.
(partial sarcasm)
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If I recall correctly, the black stuff has been identified. I will go and check out the two sources for a reference. BRB,
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This is one, but not the one I was looking for… BRB …
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-on-minami-somas-mysterious-black.html
Friday, February 17, 2012
More on Minami Soma's Mysterious Black Dust: Spectrum Analysis by Prof. Yamauchi, and High Alpha Radiation Detection by an NGO
The data sheet of the black dust with over 1 million Bq/kg of radioactive cesium from Minami Soma, as Professor Yamauchi measured, from Naoya Fujiwara:
Minami Soma's Assemblyman Koichi Ooyama says he simply took the sample to a laboratory in Minami Soma instead of waiting for the city officials to come back to work on Monday. The result, presented in his blog, was:
dried soil
Germanium semiconductor detector for 600 seconds
718,000 becquerels/kg [of radioactive cesium]
margin of error 10%
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Ah here we are. For those lazy like me, a quick quote from Wikipedia or the like will follow. For my 2p this is some sort of primitive life form which might thrive under hot radioactivity (SCARY!)
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/black-substance-mass-generated/
"The black substance, which is probably Cyanophyceae, was mass generated after the rain.
"As it goes warmer and more humid, it may come out more."
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From Wikipedia … BRB for viewpoint
"Cyanobacteria
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Cyanophyceae)
Cyanobacteria
Temporal range: 3500–0 Ma
Had'n
Archean
Proterozoic
Pha.
Oscillatoria sp
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Cyanobacteria
Orders
The taxonomy is currently under revision[1][2]
Unicellular forms
Chroococcales (suborders-Chamaesiphonales and Pleurocapsales)
Filamentous (colonial) forms
Nostocales (= Hormogonales or Oscillatoriales)
True-branching (budding over multiple axes)
Stigonematales
Cyanobacteria (English pronunciation: /saɪˌænoʊbækˈtɪəriə/; also known as blue-green algae, blue-green bacteria, and Cyanophyta) is a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis. The name "cyanobacteria" comes from the color of the bacteria (Greek: κυανός (kyanós) = blue).
"The ability of cyanobacteria to perform oxygenic photosynthesis is thought to have converted the early reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing one, which dramatically changed the composition of life forms on Earth by stimulating biodiversity and leading to the near-extinction of oxygen-intolerant organisms. According to endosymbiotic theory, chloroplasts in plants and eukaryotic algae have evolved from cyanobacterial ancestors via endosymbiosis."
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One more reference: http://www.answers.com/topic/cyanophyceae-1
So, this is good stuff.
I am now worrying that I might have dragged you all down a bunny tunnel. This, because the first definitive quote I found was,
"black substance, which is probably Cyanophyceae, was mass generated after the rain",
from the Fukushima Diary reference above.
That aside, if it is a colony of blue green alga and is highly radioactive – or, rather, intimately mingled with soil and plant debris containing radioactive fallout – then we have another problem, Houston.
Hope this is not a false trail.
Sinceramente
torito Misitu
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Hi Misitu. You can't find a diamond every time you dig, but it's still worth digging. Your theme interests me, but I don't know what to make of it.
Perhaps the planet is selecting a life form to be our successor.
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Someone tell it to me a lot more careful next time.
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Too excited,, m<b
Someone tell the planet to take a lot more care next time, then.
*that's more like it*
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Thanks aigeezer.
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