8/21/2011 [Inside Fukushima plant]

Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: 8/21/2011
by: Mochizuki

A young journalist went inside of the Fukushima plant getting disguised as an actual worker.
1) There is no ID check to get in.
2) They pay you 10,000JPY per 1mSv exposure. so if you are exposed to 10mSv in total,you are paid 100,000JPY.
3) The contract was 70,000JPY per day but it was actually about 13,000JPY.
4) Workers are really demotivated.Some of them are disaster refugees. They can’t help working there to earn the living.
5) He took pictures inside,he will publish them later.
6) There are at least 6 layers of sub-contract companies.The lowest level of the workers come and leave only for one day.However,nobody checks it.
7) Because of (6),workers don’t know each other.
There is no Geiger counter in the facility. They hang a sheet of paper to show “the current” radiation level ,which is hand writing,at cafeteria,but it was still “April”.(He went there in August.)
http://www.videonews.com/special-report/031040/002026.php

8/20/2011 Fukushima radioactive seawater plume spreading across entire Pacific Ocean

Source: dutchsinse
Date: 8/20/2011

Plume dispersion map shown in video: http://www.xydo.com/toolbar/27327691-asr_ltd_-_fukushima_radioactive_seawater_plume_dispersal_simulation

8/18/2011 Vermont Yankee radioactive tritium found leaking in to Connecticut River

The Vermont health department says (Reuters published an article on 8/18/2011) they have been closely monitoring the radioactive tritium in groundwater originating from Vermont Yankee Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant as it has progressed in to the Connecticut River. Tritium levels tested by the state laboratory measured at 534 to 611 picocuries per liter. The EPA's maximum safe limit for drinking water is 20,000 picocuries per liter. Entergy stated that they found lower tritium levels from their own tests of river water, and that the levels registered below the official minimum detection limit. Entergy has also previously denied that strontium-90 found in a fish caught in the Connecticut river near Vermont Yankee originates from the nuclear power plant they run. [1]

The Vermont senate has voted to block the re-licensing of Vermont Yankee, whose current license to operate expires in March of 2012. The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has already granted a federal license for Entergy to continue operation of the nuclear power plant through March 21, 2032. Entergy has filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn the state's veto law. [2]

RSOE EDIS event report.

Map of Vermont Yankee

View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map

Sources:
[1] Radioactive tritium found in river near Vermont Yankee plant, Jason McLure, Reuters
[2] Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Wikipedia