Japan - 8.9 Earthquake - Fukushima Meltdown

Thank you so much Aya for the news and pictures. I didn't realize hat was so massive, but as you said in TV is nothing about it! :shock:
 
Aya said:
Update: People in Japan are very angry. :curse: :curse: :curse:
Unfortunately, we do not hear much news about Japan/Fukushima on the mainstream news anymore. However, the Fukushims disaster is nowhere near ending but actually(or obviously) it is getting worse.
I thought that aftershocks have already stopped in Tokyo as I don't see the news about it anymore, but in fact, there are still aftershocks and people are constantly stressed by it. A good news is that now people are starting to wake up the fact that Japanese goverment, TEPCO, and the media have been lying and more people are starting to take actions. Up until now, I didn't know the fact that Japan's media is very controlled and to paraphrase the free journalist Mr Uesugi, "It is worse than China and similar to Egypt or Libya." One of the outrageous event happened recently was 60000 people demonstrations in Tokyo and it was never on the mainstream news. There is "Occupy Movement" going on as well in Tokyo but people are not receiving much information unless they read the alternative websites.
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Thank you so much for posting this update, Aya. It is just shocking that a protest of that size went unreported in the mainstream news. Actually, I don't even recall seeing anything about this anywhere. As you say, though, it is good that more people are starting to become aware of the PTB's lies, and taking to the streets to make their protests known!
 
Thank you Aya for the current condition, and coverage facing the Japanese people against the corruption. It becomes evident that the worlds worst nuclear disaster is being hidden by the world press. Hardly any coverage that i have seen in the last few month's, Zero.

i subscribe to FAIREWINDSASSOCIATES, and Google has not delivered any updates for a while now. These are their latest down loads to keep those in the hotspots in the know.

Fukushima ahttp://www.fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-and-its-impact-upon-westinghouse-toshiba-designed-ap1000-atomic-power-plantnd Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant

Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles October 31, 2011
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/scientist-marco-kaltofen-presents-data-confirming-hot-particles

科学者マルコ・カルトフェン氏がホットパーティクルを確認したデータを発表
＊マルコ・カルトフェン氏：放射線化学とモニタリングの専門家で、マサチューセッツ, WorcesterのWorcester Polytechnic Institute大学( http://www.wpi.edu/ ) で博士課程に在籍している研究者。Boston Chemical Data Corpの代表者としても活躍されています。
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http://www.fairewinds.com/ja/content/scientist-marco-kaltofen-presents-data-confirming-hot-particles

Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant November 10, 2011
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-and-its-impact-upon-westinghouse-toshiba-designed-ap1000-atomic-power-plant
 
I don't know if it was posted before but I got this scary vid today.
It shows the earthquake and tsunami from car camera. :scared:

_http://www.koreus.com/video/tsunami-japon-interieur-voiture.html
 
Yeah, thanks for sharing Aya. That's very interesting and moving too! I really feel for the Japanese. Power to the people!
 
drygol said:
I don't know if it was posted before but I got this scary vid today.
It shows the earthquake and tsunami from car camera. :scared:

_http://www.koreus.com/video/tsunami-japon-interieur-voiture.html
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Incredibly fast, surreal in its devastating power, all in a matter of but a few minutes. :(

Thank you Aya for you attention to the events being held in Tokyo Japan without news reports and to Sott for the powerful article highlighting.
 
:( The situation here is going worst and worst. The radioactive fallout came to border of Kyushu Island.
After founding the contaminated beef in supermarkets in our city in July. People are alarmed but as always very silent. I think about buying a Gaigercounter. Since I'm not sure, if I eat not contaminated food.
Do you have any experience with Gaigercounter? Thanks for your time.
 
Kaigen said:
:( The situation here is going worst and worst. The radioactive fallout came to border of Kyushu Island.
After founding the contaminated beef in supermarkets in our city in July. People are alarmed but as always very silent. I think about buying a Gaigercounter. Since I'm not sure, if I eat not contaminated food.
Do you have any experience with Gaigercounter? Thanks for your time.
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These folk make some good ones: http://www.seintl.com/ (strangely, at The Farm in Tenn). You can also get units that interface with http://radiationnetwork.com/ so that others on the network can access your readings in near real time. Some of these units may not be the best for monitoring rad in food.
 
Hi, thats what came yesterday on Asahi Shinbun

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201111210014


Some 8 percent of Japan's land area, or more than 30,000 square kilometers, has been contaminated with radioactive cesium from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Spanning 13 prefectures, the affected area has accumulated more than 10,000 becquerels of cesium 134 and 137 per square meter, according to the science ministry.

The ministry has released the latest version of its cesium contamination map, covering 18 prefectures.
Radioactive plumes from the Fukushima No. 1 plant reached no farther than the border between Gunma and Nagano prefectures in the west and southern Iwate Prefecture in the north.

Ministry officials said the plumes flowed mainly via four routes between March 14 and 22 after the plant was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
The first plume headed westward from late March 14 to early March 15, when huge amounts of radioactive materials were released following a meltdown at the No. 2 reactor.

It moved clockwise over a wide area in the Kanto region. Radioactive materials fell with rain and snow, particularly in the northern parts of Tochigi and Gunma prefectures.
A branch of the plume moved southward from Gunma Prefecture, passing through western Saitama Prefecture, eastern Nagano Prefecture and western Tokyo.
It stopped in western Kanagawa Prefecture, where the Tanzawa mountain range rises up.

The second plume headed northwest in the afternoon of March 15, heavily contaminating parts of Namie and other municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture.
The third plume headed northward, apparently in the afternoon of March 20.
Areas in northern Miyagi Prefecture and southern Iwate Prefecture were probably contaminated when it rained between the late afternoon of March 20 and early March 21.
The fourth plume headed southward from the night of March 21 and early March 22.

It passed through northern Chiba Prefecture but largely skirted central Tokyo due to a pressure pattern, limiting contamination in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture.
It is believed that the amount of radioactive materials released from the Fukushima No. 1 plant increased between March 20 and 23, but the reasons are not yet known.

In Fukushima and seven other prefectures, 11,600 square kilometers, or 3 percent of Japan's land area, have annual additional radiation levels of at least 1 millisievert, according to Environment Ministry estimates.

The government has said it will remove radioactive materials if annual additional radiation levels reach 1 millisievert or more.
The science ministry has been carrying out aerial monitoring of radioactive materials since April.
Helicopters fly at relatively low speeds, allowing monitoring of levels of radiation released from the ground at a height of 1 meter.
Cesium accumulations in soil and radiation levels are also measured separately at selected sites on the ground.

Officials estimate cesium accumulations at other locations using correlations between radiation levels 1 meter above the ground monitored from helicopters and the actual cesium accumulations at the selected sites.
Cesium 137 will have a long-term impact on the environment because it has a half-life of 30 years.

It was detected even before the Fukushima accident, apparently as a result of nuclear testing conducted by other nations.
Still, the maximum amount found in nationwide surveys since fiscal 1999 was 4,700 becquerels in Nagano Prefecture.
The science ministry's cesium contamination map excludes the effects of pre-disaster contamination.
The map will cover 22 prefectures when it is completed by the end of the year. Data for Aomori, Ishikawa, Fukui and Aichi prefectures will be added.
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From November 15 they had this:

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201111150003

Radioactive substances spewed out by the quake-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have likely spread to western Japan and Hokkaido, according to a team of Japanese, U.S. and European scientists.
Their findings were published in the Nov. 14 online edition of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Japan's science ministry said radioactive contamination spread only as far west as the areas near the border between Nagano and Gunma prefectures. However, it conceded there was a possibility, albeit small, of contamination west of that line.

A team of scientists, led by Teppei Yasunari, research associate for the Universities Space Research Association in Maryland, simulated the dispersion of airborne cesium-137 on a 20-kilometer grid, taking account of the weather and rainfall conditions after the March 11 disaster.
The team inputted the science ministry's observation data on cesium-137 deposition into its numerical output to obtain quantitative estimates for cesium deposits between March 20 and April 19.

Overall, the simulated distribution of contamination was in line with measurements by the science ministry.
However, the study indicated possible contamination of radioactive fallout in mountainous areas in Gifu Prefecture, the Chugoku and Shikoku regions. The simulation also showed contamination in Hokkaido.

"These deposition levels do not have immediate impact on human health and do not require decontamination," said Tetsuzo Yasunari, a professor at Nagoya University who is a co-author of the study.
Cesium concentrations in soil were far below the safety standard for banning rice cultivation in most regions.

The analysis did not include the period through March 19 because of the unavailability of data, although most of the radioactive substances are thought to have been released during that period.

"The actual deposition is likely to be larger than our latest estimate," one scientist said.
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Today news.

_http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201111220048

Radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has reached the international date line, about 4,000 kilometers east of Japan in the Pacific Ocean, according to estimates.

The concentration of radioactive cesium-137 will be 0.1-0.01 becquerel per liter by the end of November, 10 to 100 times higher than before the accident started, according to estimates by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.
The concentration will be at one-2,000th to one-20,000th of the government safety standard for potable water, but monitoring will be necessary for any impact on fish and shellfish.

A team of researchers led by Yukio Masumoto estimated the flow based on radiation levels measured in waters around the Fukushima No. 1 plant, taking convection and other factors into account.
Radioactive water that leaked from the plant first moved along the coast and then gradually moved offshore.

The researchers estimated that it reached the international date line in four to five months after spreading amid complex flows between the Oyashio and Kuroshio currents.

The dispersion will not change much even on the assumption that airborne radioactive materials have fallen to the ocean.
A science ministry survey has found radiation levels of several becquerels in waters around the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
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And this was on SOTT yesterday: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/237946-Architect-of-Fukushima-s-Reactor-3-warns-of-massive-hydrovolcanic-explosion
 
11/18/2011 -- ☢ Test #1 -- 349.5 CPM -- Airborne indoor particulates -- St. Louis, MO ☢
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=9Eybu7vwkxY

NORMAL LEVELS ONE DAY LATER ! UPDATE ! 135pm CDT 11/19/2011 -- three outside tests done 5 blocks from my house .. 70CPM , 64CPM, and 62CPM -- this means levels at my house are VERY HIGH.. and proves the ionic breeze collection method is not artificially highly radioactive... this is GOOD NEWS !!! for the world.. for me it means.. time to get RADON professionals and natural gas people out here asap

or it means yesterday had a high amount of radiation in the air-- and today its low..

one other thing .. it could have been aeorsols from cloud seeding (chemtrails) .. yesterday was a very heavy spraying day
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349.5 CPM (counts per minute) = 3495 over the course of 10 minutes.

(first test was 250+ CPM over 5 min - not on camera -- several more tests over the next few days forthcoming)


By all accounts, 100 CPM is the alert level for "high radiation". This means we are far over alert levels when it comes to small radioactive particulate matter in the air.

This boldly contradicts my previous findings from cross country measurements.. highest levels cross country were in Colorado @ 80-100 CPM
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location : Saint Louis, Missouri
date : 11/18/2011 1200 noon CST

Method of collection:
electromagnetically charged particle collection plate 30 minute collection (stainless steel) -- ionic breeze air purifier collection plate

steel plate wiped with a fresh dry paper towel.. then placed on a clean glass surface.

Geiger counter is the "inspector alert" http://medcom.com/products/inspector-alert

Both paper towel and plate pre-tested for ambient background radioactivity (normal) on video.

I intend to repeat this test several more times as well as tomorrow (nov 19 2011) taking several outdoor measurements across the Saint Louis Missouri area using the same collection method.

Here are the links I have to monitor radiation levels nationally and internationally:
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List of radiation monitoring links:

USA and global coverage:

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/

http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

German Radiation Protection Agency:
Radiation:
http://www.bfs.de/en/ion/imis/spurenmessungen.html

http://odlinfo.bfs.de/

www.dwd.de

Electro Magnetic Fields:
http://www.bfs.de/en/elektro/papiere/Eurobarometer_EMF_Report_347.html

http://www.bfs.de/en/elektro

Link Austrian Radiation Protection Agency for Data:
http://www.umweltnet.at/article/articleview/87717/1/7032/

Live Measurement stations Austria:
http://www.umweltnet.at/article/articleview/81383/1/29344

http://transport.nilu.no/products/fukushima?searchterm=fuk

http://www.eurad.uni-koeln.de/

Finland radiation:

http://www.stuk.fi/fi_FI/

radiation forecasting links:

http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=webcam&SA...

http://eurdeppub.jrc.it/eurdeppub/home.aspx#

http://www.csn.es/index.php?option=com_maps&view=mappoints&Itemid=32

http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/

http://www.epa.gov (click on radiation update)

http://www.irsn.fr/EN/Pages/home.aspx

http://www.nucleartourist.com/

http://www.stuk.fi/index_en.html

http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/detail/1303962.htm

http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/index.html

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/

http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P867_02.html

http://www.mapion.co.jp/topics/genpatu/

http://strahlenbelastung.wo-wann-wer.de/

dutch radiation monitoring:

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/

swiss radiation monitoring:

https://www.naz.ch/en/aktuell/zeitverlaeufe.html

Finland radiation monitoring:

http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P160_01.html

www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P867_02.html

French radiation monitoring:

http://sws.irsn.fr/sws/mesure/index

http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Documents/france.htm
 
This seems to be an informative article about Geiger Counters and concerns about rads and food, still, consider the source: _http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-12/geiger-counters-to-find-radiation-in-meals-may-be-meaningless-.html
 
Kaigen said:
I think about buying a Gaigercounter. Since I'm not sure, if I eat not contaminated food.
Do you have any experience with Gaigercounter?
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Geiger Counters only detect gamma rays in the air which can give you some idea about contamination in the air, but in fact it doesn't not detect strontium90's beta rays and plutonium's alpha rays that is affecting abnormality inside of a body. It also cannot measure accurately the amount of contamination in food and measure how food can affect each person's body, so that in terms of accuracy, Geiger Counters are not very reliable. But IMO it is good to have it, if it's helps you to be more aware about the environment around you.

Also, I heard from the author Mr.Takashi Hirose's lectures that some contaminated food have likely transported in Kyushu or Okinawa. According to him, the reason is that people in South part of Japan is less concerned about radiations so manufactures are changing food labels and doing false radiation measurement to send the most contaminated food over there. So it is not just about Kanto area, throughout the country radiation is contaminated and unfortunately there is no way to measure it accurately. I am not sure if his story is truth but considering what the Japanese government has done to people, I think it is a likely possibility.
 
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