Fukushima

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130 million Bq of cesium has leaked to Tokyo bay in Yokohama

Source - Iori Mochizuki

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Author: Yuri Kageyama
Date: March 07, 2012 03:31 AM EST

[...] a sense of unease pervades the residents of Fukushima [City, population 300,000, 60km from meltdowns]. Some have moved away. Everyone else knows they are living with an invisible enemy. [...]

It hasn't helped that the government has given only the most optimistic scenarios of the risks to avoid mass panic.

Public skepticism of government assurances grew when the man appointed as health adviser for Fukushima prefecture, Shunichi Yama****a, repeatedly said exposure to 100 millisieverts of radiation a year was safe. [...]

At area hospitals, thousands of people are on waiting lists to get their radiation levels measured with whole-body counters. One child at Minami Soma Hospital, southeast of Fukushima, was found with 2,653 becquerels of radioactive cesium. [...]

Noteworthy Quotes

"The government spokesman keeps saying there are no IMMEDIATE health effects. He's not talking about 10 years or 20 years later. He must think the people of Fukushima are fools. It's not really OK to live here. But we live here." -48-year-old nursery school worker Yoshiko Ota, of Fukushima City (40 miles or 60 kilometers away from meltdows)
"Government officials should all come live in Fukushima for several years and bring their families. They're all staying in places where it's safe. We're being told to get radiated and drop dead." -Kouta Miyazaki
"People are scared to death -- They are thinking, 'Tell me. Is it good or bad?' We can't tell them. ... Life is risky" -Wolfgang Weiss, chairman of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, which is studying Fukushima
"Studies have found that cancer risks rise at an annual exposure of 100 millsieverts or above but aren't statistically detectable at lower levels. Below 100, experts can't say for sure whether it's safe, just that a link to cancer can't be proven" -AP
"We are defining policies to live and coexist with radiation" -Date Mayor Shouji Nishida

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Strange phenomenon..

Title: USNRC Emergency Operations Center Status Update
Source: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Date: March 12, 2011
Link: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1122/ML11229A190.pdf

Earthquake / Tsunami Status Update Compiled by Executive Briefing Team

Status of Japanese Facilitiesvertical earthquake
"So, the fuel melting towards the center of the Earth is caused by a down earthquake"?



Title: The Fallout: TEPCO:
Source: NBC
Date: March 7, 2012

NBC: Some say Chernobyl proved you can't clean up radiation contamination. Once you create an exclusion zone it will remain closed for decades. [...]

Tepco: What I can say now is we are very sorry [...]

Lawyer Ito Kazuku: Please stop this kind of inhuman treatment for the people living in Fukushima [...]




And this is about ARNIE GUNDERSEN -

Title: In Historic Vote, Vermont Poised to Shut Down Lone Nuclear Reactor
Source: Democracy Now via Fairewinds
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Title: Richard Engel Talks About Nuclear Disaster
Source: KULR
Date: Mar 7, 2012 at 7:06 PM MST

[...] Richard Engel is covering the story for NBC News and spoke to KULR-8 Wednesday afternoon. [...]

"It's really about the dust. I thought I was going into an area, it'd be like a big microwave oven. You'd leave glowing and there's a constant radiation level. It's not like you're entering a big x-ray machine. It's the dust. It's the particles of, in this case, radioactive cesium that were shot up into the sky and settled in lots of different places," Engel said. [...]

Read the report here Richard Engel Talks About Nuclear Disaster | KULR-8 News, Sports, Weather | - Billings, MontanaLocal Coupons | Local Top Stories

Transcript Excerpts

"Fukushima City has pockets where the radiation levels are just as high [as inside evacuation zone] but they decided they could not abandon this city of 300,000 people so they are trying to clean it up
These particles are what you have to worry about
This is what the cleanup is all about in Fukushima City, they have to remove the particles but how do you remove billions of invisible particles that are on the rooftops, on the road, gutters, in the water, in the worms, and the birds. How do you get rid of all of that stuff?
It was the only time I had seen a place on Earth that had been rendered uninhabitable for a long period of time
Cesium has a half-life of decades and it's everywhere and its like this part of the earth has been written off, excised from the planet and that was, and still is, a shocking concept to me"



Tepco monthly publish the data of radiation leakage to the sea water inside of intake.Japanese seefoodJP Gov distributes money for the local governments to accept radioactive debrisRadioactive wind from Fukushima is predicted to hit Tokyo on 3/9/2012 from the data of meteorological bureau.

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Radioactive pollen..

March is the peak of hay fever season in Japan. And this year it brings a new twist: radioactivity in pollen.

SOURCE:Of course, nothing to worry about. Business as usual...

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Expert Warns: Leakage of Water from the Unit 4 SFP Will Mean "THE END" (Mar. 8, 2012) - YouTube

You may think it's "already one year" [since the accident] but it's actually "still only one year."

True cause of the Fukushima Daiichi accident still hasn't been identified.

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Still, they are talking about resuming the operation of nuclear plants.

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But is the accident over? Is it really over? For example, Unit 4. In fact, Dr. Koide of Kyoto University is worried about it most.

The present conditions of Unit 4 are like this. You see, almost no walls. They were blown off, and honestly speaking, the Unit 4 is a wreck. A wreck.

[...]

Now, what if an earthquake occurred right now and the water in the pool started to leak?

I asked this question to Dr. Koide. Please watch this video.

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If a large aftershock occurred and the wall here collapsed, the water in the pool would leak out and the spent fuel would not be cooled any more. Then, they would start to melt, probably completely. And huge amount of radiation contained in the spend fuel would be released outside, with no walls to block it.

We'll never know when an earthquake comes.

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the fuel rods, which are probably damaged to some degree

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What if a destructive earthquake occurred during those years?

That would be the end. The end? Yes.

You see, that would be the end.

Unbelievable...unbelievable.

This is a serious problem.

TEPCO knows dealing with this problem is most important for now.

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So if a large earthquake should occur from now until that January...

No, it doesn't have to be large. Unit 4 has been shaken many times already.

If the pool got cracks after another earthquake and the water started to leak out, Dr. Koide said that would be the end.

The end for a wide area including Tokyo.

Oh my, and they are talking about resuming nuclear plant operation.

I think resuming the operation is out of the question at least until the results from the investigation by NAIIC come out.

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I want them to let us vote again.

They talk about resuming the operation after gaining understanding from local communities. But for this issue, I think the whole country of Japan, or the whole area including the neighboring countries, is a "local community" that would be affected. We should keep in mind that it's not only the sites of the plants that should be considered as "local communities."

We should recognize the accident is far from over and the crisis is still ongoing.

Yes. And excuse me, I have a correction to make. Retrieving the fuel rods is planned to start not from January, but from...when? December next year? (Yes.)

December next year? No kidding!

Sorry, I took a too-favorable view.

The members of the Diet who want to resume, I want them to resign.

We need to reconsider this issue.

I want to know the exact names of the members of the Diet who want to resume, and ask them for their opinions.[...]



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Title: Greg Palast - The Lies and Fraud Behind Nuclear Plants
Upload Date: March 6, 2012

At 7:45 in

A tsunami crashed through and destroyed the emergency diesel generators at Fukushima, that's why it melted down, who could have expected that?
Except its not true.
Go and look at Google Earth and see where the generators are. They were no more wet than the washroom here at 80 St. Marks.
I wouldn't go in barefoot, but you don't need a swimming suit.
They made it up
Why did they fail?
The answer was they commit suicide
Emergency diesel generators taken off of old cruise ships.

Title: Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants
Source: Greg Palast
Date: March 14, 2011

I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. [...]

These safety back-up systems are the 'EDGs' in nuke-speak: Emergency Diesel Generators. That they didn't work in an emergency is like a fire department telling us they couldn't save a building because "it was on fire." [...]

Back in the day, when we checked the emergency back-up diesels in America, a mind-blowing number flunked. At the New York nuke, for example, the builders swore under oath that their three diesel engines were ready for an emergency. They'd been tested. The tests were faked, the diesels run for just a short time at low speed. When the diesels were put through a real test under emergency-like conditions, the crankshaft on the first one snapped in about an hour, then the second and third. We nicknamed the diesels, "Snap, Crackle and Pop."

(Note: Moments after I wrote that sentence, word came that two of three diesels failed at the Tokai Station as well.)

Greg Palast - The Lies and Fraud Behind Nuclear Plants - YouTube

Title: Fukushima Survivor: 'I've Hardly Smiled This Whole Year'
Source: BURN: An Energy Journal via PBS NewsHour
Author: American Public Media
Date: Mar 9, 2012

Carl Pillitteri was one of 38 Americans at the Fukushima plant when the earthquake hit. Describing the "demonic" sounds he heard and the pit of fear he felt inside the turbine building that day, Pillteri [sic] recently spoke with Alex Chadwick, the host of the new American Public Media series "BURN: An Energy Journal."

Transcript Excerpts

[...] CARL PILLITTERI, Nuclear Technician: The entire building was moving. And then I remember praying aloud for everyone, for all of us, just praying aloud. And I'm thinking that we're going to perish inside this turbine building. And I can still hear the turbine making its most unwelcome sounds in front of us there.

ALEX CHADWICK, American Public Media: Can you describe what the sounds were like coming out of the earth?

CARL PILLITTERI: They were almost demonic in the way they sounded. You know, it's just -- and I don't know what was generating these sounds, if it was the earth itself, or the building being flexed, or moved, or the upheaval of the building.

ALEX CHADWICK: And it s still going on, the shaking, the jolting is still going on.

CARL PILLITTERI: On the unit one turbine deck was the only time I thought I might perish. I had gotten to a point where I had surrendered. And that surrender was -- you know, I remember asking to make it quick.

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CARL PILLITTERI: The morning of the 13th, when we all woke up from our first night's sleep in the hotel there in Tokyo, I came down to the lobby and I saw one table with co-workers at it. And I said, I think I have been traumatized. And I'm sure the way I sounded, you know, made my point. And Butch to the right of me burst into tears, a full-grown man. Danny, to the left of me, chokes up. And that morning breakfast breakdown was when I realized, yeah, this was more than I bargained for on March 11. [...]

Fukushima Survivor: 'I've Hardly Smiled This Whole Year' - YouTube

Title: TEPCO's Criminal Error and The Media's Responsibility
Source: THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS' CLUB OF JAPAN
Uploaded by: ugayaunviersity
Date: March 8, 2012

Title: TEPCO's Criminal Error and The Media's Responsibility
Source: THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS' CLUB OF JAPAN
Uploaded by: ugayaunviersity
Date: March 8, 2012

Dr. Eiichi Yamaguchi, Chairman of Fukushima Project & Professor, Doshisha University
Morinosuke KAWAGUCHI, Associate Director, Arthur D. Little (Japan), Inc

"TEPCO's Criminal Error and The Media's Responsibility", by The FUKUSHIMA Project

With the one year anniversary of the March 11 disaster coming up, what did we really find out, and what can we learn? Did TEPCO make a criminal error on their decisions in the first few days dealing with the biggest nuclear power disaster in 25 years?

What about the media? Did the international media damage Japan's reputation with their overreaction to the unfolding events? And should the Japanese media have done more to counter the factually incorrect coverage?

FUKUSHIMA Project, a grass-roots investigation committee, which is composed of a group of academics and professionals, conducted a private investigation into TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant accident, and concluded that they could prove the cause of the accident was a criminal error on the part of TEPCO's technology management in the first days of the accident.

The group also looked into the media coverage of the crisis, and believes that some international media's coverage in the first two weeks of the crisis contributed to the tarnishing reputation of the "Japan Brand". At the same time, with Japanese media's "poor coverage", they missed the chance to counter with "defensive coverage".

FUKUSHIMA Project has published their report, "Fukushima Report: The Essentials of the Power Plant Accident" in January this year in Japanese, while they are searching for a publisher for their English edition, they will come to FCCJ to talk about their findings.

Professor Eiichi Yamaguchi, born in 1955, received his Bachelor and Doctorate degrees in Physics from the University of Tokyo. After working at NTT and several distinguished laboratories, he was appointed as a professor of Doshisha University in 2003.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi, born in 1961, is an Associate Director for Arthur D. Little (Japan), Inc. He received Bachelors degree in applied chemistry from Keio University, and a Master's degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before joining Arthur D. Little, he worked at the Kansai Research Institute. He was also previously an engineer for 15 years at Hitachi Co. Ltd.

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Title: REMEMBERING 3/11: Fukushima workers brave radiation for 1,000 yen an hour
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: SOPHIE KNIGHT
Date: March 10, 20125,000 CPM InternallyDaily Dose of 18+ millisieverts through Fall

Kenichi says he was receiving around 18 to 20 millisieverts a day in the fall, according to his dosimeter. That has now fallen to around 0.08 millisievert.

SymptomsMeltdown Progression
Nuclear, the Attractive Alternative

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serious movement

Time: 18:09 JST 14 Mar 2012
Location: 40.7N 145.2E
Depth: 10 km
Magnitude: 6.8

Happening Now

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Title: The Cost of Fear: The Framing of a Fukushima Report
Source: NPR Ombudsman
Author: Edward Schumacher-Matos
Date: March 15, 2012

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Geiger Counter Readings
Security Tokyo
March 25, 2012

Radiation dose tripled at Adachi-ku in Tokyo

3/25/12 at 00:00 @ 0.09 microSv/h
3/25/12 at 00:30 @ 0.28 microSv/h

Radiation dose doubled at Shinagawa-ku in Tokyo around the same time.

Title: Earthquake Information
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency
Date: March 25, 2012

22:22 JST 25 Mar 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M5.2

Another quake hits Fukushima at same location and depth.

Japan: "Hurry up! Restart the Oi nuclear power plants!" - YouTube

Also good material -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGsYdDpUSzg

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 shook northeastern Japan, centering on Iwate and Miyagi prefectures [...]

The 8 p.m. temblor measured lower 5 on the Japanese intensity scale of 7 in locations such as a wide area of Iwate and northern Miyagi [...]

Title: Fukushima No. 2 reactor radiation level up to 73 sieverts per hour
Source: Kyodo News
Date: 20:11 27 March
Title: New probe finds worse damage at Fukushima reactor
Source: The Associated Press
Date: 8:41 a.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2012



81 Bq/Kg of cesium from citrus in Chiba
Posted by Mochizuki on March 26th, 2012

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Radiation Inside Fukushima Reactor So High That New Machines Must Be Designed to Monitor It

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Title: [Weather Alert] Japan may experience typhoon-class spring storm
Source: YokosoNews
Date: April 3, 2012Then, the storm will move to Tohoku (North Japan) [Home of Fukushima Daiichi] area. The storm would continue to bring heavy wind and storm through tomorrow morning in North Japan. [...]
According to NHK and Yomiuri, the people in Japan should be on the high alert [...]
The wind should be as strong as 25 m/sec, which is as strong as a typhoon.

Low pressure coming toward Fukushima 4/3/2012.flv - YouTube

Reports of radioactive black cyanobacteria spreading to Tokyo area

Increasing black substance in Tokyo | Fukushima Diary

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Storm may have halted nitrogen injections @ 3 reactors

Title: Typhoon-strength storm kills two in Japan, brings chaos
Source: AFP
Date: April 3, 2012 at 6:37pm ETNitrogen injection into damaged Fukushima reactors halts for over 2 hrs
Source: Kyodo
Date: 21:23 4 April

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Wednesday that the injection of nitrogen gas into three crippled reactors ceased for over 2 hours, although it detected no abnormalities that could raise fears of a hydrogen explosion.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the interruption occurred possibly because a filter of the supply device was clogged by dust as a result of strong winds seen from Tuesday evening.

[...] it took about an hour for workers to realize that the injection of the gas into the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors had stopped as the alarm cannot be detected at the operation center in real time. [...]



From pdf Report to NISA on units 1 ~ 3 thermometer reliability

(the NISA requested Tepco to write a report once a month):

Some of the thermometers not previously evaluated were found to be usable, and some were found to be broken. Some thermometers that were not connected to a digital recorder have been connected to a digital recorder.10,000 Free Flights to Japan!? |

They should offer those flights to Japanese people instead....

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