Published: December 4th, 2011 at 7:49 am ET
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UPDATE via Ulrich:
Look at the first item on that list. And now look at the last item of this: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/FieldSampleAirResults_0.csv
It says the following:
218893,7087,SCF-08988,Air Filter,No,35.668706,139.743285,140.531809716137,210.966723222709,SSW,3/18/2011 2:05:28 PM,DOE,”Field Team: Embassy Roof High Vol I-132 (2.3h halflife) activity is assigned to be equal to Te-132 activity, appropriate of conservative dose estimation. Results verified by LLNL and Triage.;”,Hi-vol,14896,cubic feet,4.40187339833734E-07,5.58649258872321E-07,GP Counting,,Sr-89,1.64992466793688E-05,uCi
This means that in that location, they filtered trough 14896,cubic feet air, and the total Sr-89 that they found was 1.64992466793688E-05,uCi. To get Bq, we need to multiply by 37000, so we get 0.610463 Bq. This is the total radioactivity in 14896,cubic feet air. However, most units on that page are uCi/mL, and the person who did the computation apparently thought that this should be that too, and so multiplied the 0.610463 by 1million to get what he thought would be Bq/m3. But as I said, this is wrong. To get the correct value, we have to divide 0.610463 by 14896 to get 0.000041 Bq per cubic feet, which is about 0.0011 Bq/m3. So that was the Strontium quantity, not what he says. This is actually still not very little, but nothing like what he says.
[...] And sorry, it is 0.610472, not 0.610463. So this must be where his data comes from.
ORIGINAL POST:
Note: These strontium figures are extremely high. Hopefully we can get some additional analysis in the comments section. Currently unable to make use of the .kmz file. Any help there is appreciated… Google Earth is not working well at the moment. Perhaps a jpeg screenshot? Also is this air or soil?
Breaking news ; 610,000Bq/m3 of Sr-89 was measured in Tokyo, 3/18/2011, Fukushima Diary, December 3, 2011:
- U.S. Dept. of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration “measured air in Tokyo From March to April”
- “It shows that massive amount of Strontium has already fell on Tokyo”
- “The max is 610,472Bq/m3 at Meguro”
SOURCES:
US DOE/NNSA Response to 2011 Fukushima Incident- Raw Aerial Data and Extracted Ground Exposure Rates and Cesium Deposition — Download the kmz file here: http://explore.data.gov/d/prrn-6s35
Additional documents here:
- http://energy.gov/situation-japan-updated-102111
- http://www.data.gov/raw/5270
- http://www.data.gov/raw/5271
- http://www.data.gov/raw/5272
- http://www.data.gov/raw/5273
SOURCE: radiationjapan.info
Published: December 4th, 2011 at 7:49 am ET
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This is off the headline topic but has the corium stopped? I just read a report from CBS and was glad to see the MSM finally post an article about this global disaster but I’m not sure how truthful it is and how they would know one way or the other about the condition of the corium. I do hope they are right and that the nasty blob has stopped or ‘halted’ but from what I have learned this does not seem feasible. The following is a snip from the CBS article.
“Yesterday, CBS News correspondent Lucy Craft reported in her storythat “molten nuclear fuel burned through the eight-foot concrete walls of the first protective casing surrounding the reactor’s core, and then ate three-quarters of the way through the second casing”.
The meltdown reportedly halted “within a foot of the container’s steel bottom, 25 feet above the earth’s surface”.
A Japanese nuclear engineer, Masanori Naitoh, told CBS that the meltdown could have been worse, but the containment held.”
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They are just preparing everyone for the worst that has already happened. Or they are believing the disinformation agreed on by either Japan or the IAEA or more likely both.
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Great comment
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Hi moonshellblue, I wonder how CBS would know what Tepco doesn’t (or doesn’t reveal yet) – I guess noone went there with a tapemeasure….
To me, this story seems like their last resort: “well, it’s worse than we thought, BUT the good news is the containment worked!”
Spin…
I was “wrestling with pigs” yesterday on a pro-nuke site – they were all over the place, excited that “even in an old 60′s plant the containment did what it was supposed to do”. Blah…
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Yes, I think they are just getting the general pop. ready for reality. I just want to believe that it has stopped but I’m pretty sure there has been ongoing criticality’s and the genie is out and I don’t think pouring water on top of corium is going to cool the blob. Too bad they did not have a Core Catcher. Beautiful Japan, ohhh, it just breaks my heart.
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Hi MSB…i’m trying to look at this in increasingly elementary terms:
FACT: they dug under Chernobyl’s meltdown and it’s still fissioning corium 25 years later
FACT: FukU has burned 3/4 down through concrete
FACT: The very basic chemistry I understand tells me there’s a good reason why fuel rods are clad in specifically zirconium
FACT: Steel is intended to block gamma rays, not to stop fissioning uranium and plutonium
FACT: most radioisotopes seem to be metallic in nature…metals interact in a volatile way with other metals and steel is already a compound of different elements
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With a half-life of 50 days, SR 89 will have run 5 half-life cycles by now, so even now it would still read 35,000 bq/m3. Beats me what it decays into – probably something worse.
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Yttrium 89 which then decays into zirconium
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It is nonsense. The computations are totally wrong. Look at the first item on that list. And now look at the last item of this:
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/FieldSampleAirResults_0.csv
It says the following:
218893,7087,SCF-08988,Air Filter,No,35.668706,139.743285,140.531809716137,210.966723222709,SSW,3/18/2011 2:05:28 PM,DOE,”Field Team: Embassy Roof High Vol I-132 (2.3h halflife) activity is assigned to be equal to Te-132 activity, appropriate of conservative dose estimation. Results verified by LLNL and Triage.;”,Hi-vol,14896,cubic feet,4.40187339833734E-07,5.58649258872321E-07,GP Counting,,Sr-89,1.64992466793688E-05,uCi
This means that in that location, they filtered trough 14896,cubic feet air, and the total Sr-89 that they found was 1.64992466793688E-05,uCi. To get Bq, we need to multiply by 37000, so we get 0.610463 Bq. This is the total radioactivity in 14896,cubic feet air. However, most units on that page are uCi/mL, and the person who did the computation apparently thought that this should be that too, and so multiplied the 0.610463 by 1million to get what he thought would be Bq/m3. But as I said, this is wrong. To get the correct value, we have to divide 0.610463 by 14896 to get 0.000041 Bq per cubic feet, which is about 0.0011 Bq/m3. So that was the Strontium quantity, not what he says. This is actually still not very little, but nothing like what he says.
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By the way, it took hours for me to locate exactly what data he used and figure out what he did wrong, so I’m really upset.
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Wow ! thx for your work there Ulrich !
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And sorry, it is 0.610472, not 0.610463. So this must be where his data comes from.
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>By the way, it took hours for me to locate exactly what data he used and figure out what he did wrong, so I’m really upset.
Yeah, well welcome to Fukushima Diary. Pretty typical event over there.
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Thanks, I was hoping that they were right but obviously the MSM is spoon feeding the public. Baby steps and if and when the corium hit ground water….if it has not already, but I would think it would not be long before it does.
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KML files are very often distributed in KMZ files, which are zipped files with a .kmz extension. These must be legacy (ZIP 2.0) compression compatible (i.e. stored or deflate method), otherwise the .kmz file might not uncompress in all geobrowsers. The contents of a KMZ file are a single root KML document (notionally “doc.kml”) and optionally any overlays, images, icons, and COLLADA 3D models referenced in the KML including network-linked KML files. The root KML document is typically a file named “doc.kml” at the root directory level but the first .kml file entry in the KMZ file is the actual one selected in Google Earth regardless of its name. By convention the root KML document is at root level and referenced files are in subdirectories (e.g. images for overlay images).[3]
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When a newschannel reports from a freefall acident, just takes the camera of topic for a moment , just in time for the object to hitt the ground, and contioues with, “so far so good, nothing here to se”.
Idiotic staments and just tels us that the Spinndoctores must be kicked out.
Its still prosessing its way down to the ground, and not only temp, water a.s.o. just the massive amount of High Energy radioactive isotops constantly bombarding anything that the curium slowly decays thru.
Nothing can stand that, even the corium, get pulverised, by the Heat and Radioacyivity.
What I read from this papers, are the simple acknowledge that the shitt is about to hitt the fan.
This is the Verry thing, non of us wanted to think on/of back in this Spring.
And what even more depresing is the fact that TEPCO and Japan gov. has so far managed to do, what, anything anyone.
I can understand the Tentcitiy and for Filthering, a.s.o. but this is beyound that, and what is actualy happening, anyone, anything.
Fu..
What we all need is not the solutions from the walkning dead and the same lame industys corrupt knowledgles idiots. We dont even need a new religion, all we need to do is starting to realise that brainpower is the only real thing, and start to deal with Fukushima, a express train on the corse of a NucklearNightmare.
We better wake up now, because, shittheads, there will be no later.
We are in a rapidly detiriorating and evolvig acsident and that need a propper respons.
A good start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
And people of Japan has all the good reasons for been mad, I witch they where Mader.
Zen Proverb
It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.
peace
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The Tepco taboo words strontium, plutonium, and finally forum get their unveiling in a mishmash of disinformation designed to assure the frightened Japanese citizens that they will survive OK.
What else can they say? Tell the truth and have 127 million human lemmings rush for the airports and seaports. Telco: “We are so sorry that we have unleashed a toxic monster that will kill 50 million Japanese in this decade. Please accept our apology.”
The world of Japan is now an Orwellian-Huxley nightmare that will never end. There is no solution to the China Syndromes which have been occurring for probably over six months. The coriums are in the soil and the massive radioactive releases will continue far beyond the end of mankind. Prepare your own family defenses because the scientists have nothing left to try except observe the greatest man-made tragedy to ever befall the modern human race.
Neil Postman wrote these words that apply to the coverup:
“Television is altering the meaning of “being informed” by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information – misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information – information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal…
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Superb analysis!
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Sorry…new phone… My disinformation word “forum” is actually “corium” as I am sure you surmised.
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superb post there!! but human lemmings? is nothing sacred?
your pick up of huxleys version of reality is spot on!!
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soil contamination in playground…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5RSMv1TWvw&feature=g-u
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It’s because of that Neil Postman quote that I decided to read Brave New World and 1984!! Thanks for posting that Sickputer!!
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Someone asked:Isotopes of strontium
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The alkaline earth metal strontium (Sr) has four stable, naturally occurring isotopes: 84Sr (0.56%), 86Sr (9.86%), 87Sr (7.0%) and 88Sr (82.58%). It has a standard atomic mass of 87.62(1) u.
Only 87Sr is radiogenic; it is produced by decay from the radioactive alkali metal 87Rb, which has a half-life of 4.88 × 1010 years. Thus, there are two sources of 87Sr in any material: that formed during primordial nucleo-synthesis along with 84Sr, 86Sr and 88Sr, as well as that formed by radioactive decay of 87Rb. The ratio 87Sr/86Sr is the parameter typically reported in geologic investigations; ratios in minerals and rocks have values ranging from about 0.7 to greater than 4.0. Because strontium has an electron configuration similar to that of calcium, it readily substitutes for Ca in minerals.
Twenty-nine unstable isotopes are known to exist, the longest-lived of which are 90Sr with a half-life of 28.9 years and 85Sr with a half-life of 64.853 days. Of importance are strontium-89 (89Sr) with a half-life of 50.57 days, and strontium-90 (90Sr). They decay by emitting an electron and an anti-neutrino () in beta decay (β− decay) to become yttrium:
89Sr is an artificial radioisotope which is used in treatment of bone cancer. In circumstances where cancer patients have widespread and painful bony metastases, the administration of 89Sr results in the delivery of beta particles directly to the area of bony problem, where calcium turnover is greatest.
90Sr is a by-product of nuclear fission which is found in nuclear fallout and presents a health problem since it substitutes for calcium in bone, preventing expulsion from the body. Because it is a long-lived high-energy beta emitter, it is used in SNAP (Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) devices. These devices hold promise for use in spacecraft, remote weather stations, navigational buoys, etc., where a lightweight, long-lived, nuclear-electric…
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Questions swirl around $6 billion nuclear lab: “The Department of Energy has learned nothing from the Fukushima … http://t.co/kLI7qrzE
3 minutes ago
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Can you help a french student by sharing my survey about Fukushima disaster? Thank you very much! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdSdlhJa0pvb1lxdV9DcktXWU9veEE6MQ
4 minutes ago
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That Survey is something Enenews could do too…MAYBE.
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Whoopie2, its in Japanese !
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Oh…I took it. I’ll get the link in Translator
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It’s coming up ERROR. It’s a great Survey. It asks if I’m in Japan ect. And asked opinions. I told them I think the Japanese Gov and Tepco has lied from the get go. Bla bla bla.
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I use Google Chrome so all Japanese and other languages get Translated.
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I’m so angry. HP hasn’t posted any of my NEWS for hours. It just sits there. What’s up with that? (no answer needed)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/japan-fukushima-daiichi-meltdown_n_1120262.html?show_comment_id=121078150#undefined
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Oh God…Column of the Day: Potential risk of racial discrimination against Japanese
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/column-potential-risk-of-racial-discrimination-against-japanese/
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““It’s because Japanese is coward.”
Whether it’s true or not, the more contamination spreads, the harder it becomes for Japanese refugee to live and make themselves understood right.
It’s going to be harder and harder. so I wish I could be a pioneer and prepare for the followers from Japan.
Japanese will have to live in a small community to corporate”
from your link whoppie… coming from a racist culture myself i understand his fears… i hope he gets told about the cosmoplitan nature of most cities and how much the japanese culture has been incorporated into many peoples lives… the japanese themselves are admired for thier unique qualities… as for prejudice we humans are learning to deal with it, slowly but surely.. we have no choice in this globalised world!!
peace
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clicking onto “Download KML 1.5MB” on http://explore.data.gov/d/prrn-6s35 downloads a 6.8MB .kmz file, which can be opened with e.g. 7zip, WinRAR etc. The contained doc.kml file (80MB) can be opened with Google Earth or Google Mapper.
KML = Keyhole Markup Language File – stores geographic modeling information in XML format; includes points, lines, polygons, and images; used to identify and label locations.
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Oops, thanks for updating with what I wrote. In that case, I do the computations more carefully:
Look at the first item on that list. And now look at the last item of this:
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/FieldSampleAirResults_0.csv
It says the following:
218893,7087,SCF-08988,Air Filter,No,35.668706,139.743285,140.531809716137,210.966723222709,SSW,3/18/2011 2:05:28 PM,DOE,”Field Team: Embassy Roof High Vol I-132 (2.3h halflife) activity is assigned to be equal to Te-132 activity, appropriate of conservative dose estimation. Results verified by LLNL and Triage.;”,Hi-vol,14896,cubic feet,4.40187339833734E-07,5.58649258872321E-07,GP Counting,,Sr-89,1.64992466793688E-05,uCi
This means that in that location, they filtered trough 14896 cubic feet air, and the total Sr-89 that they found was 1.64992466793688E-05 uCi. To get Bq from uCi, we need to multiply by 37000, resulting 0.610472127136646 Bq. This is the total radioactivity in 14896 cubic feet air. However, most units on that page are uCi/mL, and the person who did the computation apparently thought that this should be that too, and so multiplied the 0.610472… by 1million to get what he thought would be Bq/m3. But as I said, this is wrong. To get the correct value, we have to divide 0.610472…Bq by 14896 ft3 which results 0.0000409822… Bq/ft3. Or, since 1 m3 is 35.3146667 ft3, multiplying 0.0000409822… Bq/ft3 with 35.3146667 ft3/m3, we get 0.001447… Bq/m3. So that was the Strontium quantity, not what he says. This is actually still not very little, but nothing like what he says. So again, the result is 0.001447 Bq/m3.
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Perhaps you should have sent your message without ALL CAPS so you do not have them thinking it is spam right away. In all seriousness though, they knew about this and purposely did NOTHING as it would be the end of Japan (it already is but now in slow motion).
I had the good fortune to have a wife who agreed with my decision to leave Tokyo and Japan all together very early on. I miss Japan with all my soul but I cannot regret my decision for health reasons.
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good move, what must be done, must be done.
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