2/29/2012 Japanese Government Softened Tsunami Warning 8 Days Before One Hit Fukushima

Source: AllGov.com
Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

At the behest of nuclear power companies, government officials in Japan softened language relating to the threat of earthquake-produced tsunamis only eight days before last year’s disaster.   In early March 2011, representatives of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Tohoku Electric Power Co. and Japan Atomic Power Co. asked the secretariat of the Earthquake Research Committee to amend a draft document discussing the possibility of a huge tsunami striking the northeast part of the country. ... Read the rest here

2/28/2012 (Video) Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

Source: PBS
Date: 2/28/2012
Part 1

Watch Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

2/25/2012 Evacuate Tokyo and All US Forces From Japan

Source: Veterans Today
Date: Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Tokyo Radiation Level 25 Times the Fukushima Mandatory Evacuation Zone

… by  Bob Nichols

(San Francisco) Widely known Physicist Dr Paolo Scampa, the publisher of the EU AIPRI Blog and an eminent chemical physicist, announced today his latest calculations of deadly radioactivity in Tokyo itself.  Both the nuclear regulatory and media responses have been missing in action. However, the outrageous statement of a Japanese politician pretty well sums up the level of understanding of the parasitic political class “Smile, and the radiation won’t hurt you.” ... Read the rest here

Mochizuki, Publisher of the highly respected Fukushima Diary

2/20/2012 (Video) Results of Fukushima's Preliminary Exposure Survey Announced: What Do 2 Experts Say?

Source: tokyobrowntabby YouTube channel
Date: 2/20/2012


Description:
 

Fukushima Prefecture is conducting a health survey with all its 2 million residents to estimate the amount of their external radiation exposure during the first 4 months of the accident. On February 20, the results of the preliminary survey with approximately 10,000 residents were announced.

This video shows how NHK Fukushima TV reported about the results and how 2 experts reacted to them. One is Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, Vice President of Fukushima Medical University, who played a critical role in persuading residents out of immediate evacuation by preaching safety through his many lectures in the early months of the accident. The other one is Dr. Hiroaki Koide, Research Associate at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, who has been fighting against nuclear power plants for nearly 40 years.

The first half of this video clip is from a NHK Fukushima TV's local news program called "HamaNaka Aizu" aired on February 20, 2012.
The second half of this video clip is from a news & information radio program called "Tanemaki Journal" aired on February 20, 2012 (this part is audio only).

The original video: http://youtu.be/dTUzHtN5z_I

Translation and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.

For Dr. Koide's important testimony at the Japan's Diet, please go to:
Part 1: http://youtu.be/f50bRwppY5U
Part 2: http://youtu.be/ET51DV1LZxo

For Dr. Yamashita's safty-mongering remarks, please go to:
http://youtu.be/Guw-lee4vio
http://youtu.be/oN4ZZqPtZzk
http://youtu.be/zhP11CW8r3o

2/25/2012 Report from Tokyo: 6.5 microSv/h at Japan’s busiest train station — Equal to 57 millisieverts per year, 10 times Chernobyl evacuation levels — Near Imperial Palace (PHOTOS)

Source: ENENews
Date: February 25th, 2012 at 5:32 pm ET
[Editor's Note: I normally do not republish ENENews reports here as most nuclear minded people already read that blog (I assume) or pick it up from the RadiationNews™ Google gadget feeds but this is truly startling.]
Follow-up to:

• Gendai: Radioactivity detected in Tokyo park sample at Chernobyl evacuation level?
• Asahi Source: Locations in Chiba came under heavy nuclear fallout; Borders Tokyo -- Contamination has potential to affect ecosystems

Title: Tokyo station is contaminated as mandatory evacuating zone in Fukushima
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: Feb 25, 2012
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2/21/2012 Iran Holds Air Defense Drills As IAEA Says Iran Blocks Access To Key Nuclear Site

Source: ZeroHedge
Date 02/21/2012 22:59 -0500
by: Tyler Durden

As if the market needed another bizarro catalyst to ramp even higher courtesy of an even more pronounced drop in corporate earnings courtesy of soaring energy costs, that is just what it is about to get following news of further deterioration in the Nash equilibrium in Iran, where on one hand we learn that IAEA just pronounced Iran nuclear talks a failure (this is bad), and on the other Press TV reports that the Iran army just started a 4 day air defense exercise in a 190,000 square kilometer area in southern Iran (this is just as bad). The escalation "ball" is now in the Western court. And if Iraq is any indication, after IAEA talks "failure" (no matter how grossly manipulated by the media), the aftermath is usually always one and the same
...
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2/20/2012 RadiationNews™ Google gadget updated to include Fukushima Update feed

The RadiationNews™ Google gadget has been updated to include James Corbett's Fukushima Update RSS feed.

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2/17/2012 Vermont Yankee and Other Aging Nuclear Power Plants

Source: CNN
Date: 2/17/2012
by: Amber Lyon

[Editor's Note:
Arnie Gundersen and Bernie Sanders are interviewed along with Vermont's attorney general William H. Sorrell who says Entergy, the utility which runs the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, misled them. There is also an attempt to interview the Entergy CEO J. Wayne Leonard and to interview the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who both declined to be interviewed.

2/15/2012 20 Times More Japanese Earthquakes in the 6 Months Following March 2011 than in the Previous 9 YEARS … Quake May Have “Awakened” Fukushima Fault

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: February 15, 2012

Pandora’s Box?

We have extensively documented the fact that engineers knew that Fukushima was built in an area which was highly-susceptible to giant earthquakes, and that it would fail in a large earthquake.

Unfortunately, Pandora’s Box may now have been opened.
...
Read the rest from this great blog here

2/14/2012 Powerful quake hits Japan, no tsunami threat

Source: Australia Network News
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:27:00 +1100

A powerful magnitude-6 earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan's largest island Honshu, according to the US Geological Survey.
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Read full article here

[Editor's Note: The Tokai Nuclear Power Plant is the closest nuclear site and is about 54 miles west of the epicenter of the Earthquake which occurred east of Honshu, Japan.


Dutchsinse Analysis of Quake

Description:

Full website post here with the links you will need to monitor this obvious earthquake unrest globally:

http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/2142012-6-0-ma...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off shore of Honshu Japan yet again — 80 miles south of Fukushima nuclear reactor.

In approx. one hour — the fukushima camera will be updated on youtube — in which we will most likely see definite shaking at the plant. NO tsunami warning issued.

Here are the official USGS statistics for the earthquake:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes...
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2/13/2012 ☢ Alert ! 110 CPM in the SNOW - St. Louis, Missouri ☢ AVOID EXPOSURE ☢

Source: dutchsinse YouTube channel
Date: 9:50 pm CST 2/13/2012

Description:

update 950pm CST 2/13/2012 --

convert CPM to uS/v or mS/v here: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/GM/converting_CPM_mRhr.html

quote:

"For those who prefer to use Sieverts, 108 CPM is about 1 uSv/hr for C060, and for Cs137 it is around 120 CPM per 1 uSv/hr. "

This means my test @ 110CPM = 1 uS/v per hour. Which means 24 uS/v per day ....

24 uS/v per day X 365 days in a year = 8,760 uS/v per year !!! That is roughly 8.5 mS/v per year -- which equals about spending over an hour at chernobyl !! (that is per the PBS site below). We are coming up on one year from Fukushima -- if these levels continue it means we ALL spent over an hour at chernobyl if the levels carry on for a full year !!!!!


thats the rough math --- this is NOT good news.

how much radiation is too much? here is a chart to see:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/how-m...

I have done subsequent measurements OUTSIDE in the snow directly -- 73.8 CPM over 10 Minutes.. and another test at approx. 62CPM.

In total.. three tests.. 110CPM, 62CPM, and 74CPM. These are HIGH levels..

100CPM is alert level.. so the first count actually falls under "ALERT level".. second two readings fall in the "HIGH" category.

Past baseline measurements in the same spot were an average of 20-30CPM.
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I am now (500pm CST) collecting snow for several hours -- will melt the snow -- and take tests -- also will EVAPORATE the snow and take readings on the residue.

Again.. a straight test returns a VERY high reading @ 110CPM -- these are just the preliminary tests -- I cannot leave the equipment outside in the snow for 10 minutes -- thus we must collect the sample and do extended testing.

I will be using all three geiger counters on the full tests -- once I have enough direct snowfall in the collection glass. Coming ASAP ! Tonight into tomorrow AM (2/14) -- each test takes 10 min + video processing and upload time. Will do three tests at least.


links to monitor radiation are below:

Keep in mind.. this is ALL ON TOP of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011 — which blew an EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT of radioactive debris into the air.

All my past coverage on Fukushima here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fukushima+dut...

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USA and global coverage:

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/

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

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

http://odlinfo.bfs.de/
http://www.dwd.de


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

http://www.umweltnet.at/article/articleview/87717/1/7032/

http://www.umweltnet.at/article/articleview/81383/1/29344

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

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

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

http://www.csn.es/index.php?option=com_maps&view=mapp...

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

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radio...

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/...

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

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radio...

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/radio...

swiss radiation monitoring:

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

Finland radiation monitoring:

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

French radiation monitoring:

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

http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Documents/france.htm

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The other tests in this series appear below:

2/13/2012 -- 2nd radiation test = HIGH LEVELS in snow -- 74CPM -- St. Louis, Missouri


2/13/2012 -- Third Radiation Test - HIGH LEVELS - St. Louis, MO = 110CPM, 74CPM, 62CPM

2/12/2012 'Unusual event' handled at TVA's Sequoyah Nuclear Plant

Source: WBIR (NBC Affiliate)
Date: 9:33 PM, Feb 12, 2012

TVA officials declared a "notification of unusual event" Sunday at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant.
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Map of Sequoyah Nuclear Generating Station:

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2/13/2012 Magnitude 5.5 Reported in North California

Source: CNN
Date: updated 4:37 PM EST, Mon February 13, 2012

(CNN) -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Northern California on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake's epicenter was six miles from Weitchpec, about 120 miles west of Redding, at a depth of 20.4 miles, according to USGS. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

[Editor's Note.  This quake is not near any nuclear power plants that I could see. 

dutchsinse video report:


Map of quake below:

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2/13/2012 Iran: Nuclear facilities immune to cyber attacks

Source: Associated Press Date: Feb 13, 12:04 PM EST by: ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported. ... Read full article here

Breaking: Temperature rising at No.2 reactor

Source: Twitter
Date: 2/12/2012 2:00 AM CST

I spotted this across my twitter feed from the usual reliable sources.

1. ENENEWS: BREAKING: 82°C at Reactor No. 2 — Keeps rising even after injection of more water — Tepco “set to dump in boric acid”
2. EX-SKF: JUST IN: #Fukushima Reactor 2 RPV Bottom Temperature at 82 Degrees Celsius
3. Enformable: Temperatures at Fukushima Daiichi reactor 2 continue to rise

2/9/2012 (Video) Many brands of smoke detectors are radioactive

Source: firebombclipper YouTube channel
Date: 2/9/2012
by: Ray Marsalas

Description:

Feb 9th. I happened to catch a video on radiation amounts, in smoke detectors being higher than the public is lead to believe. So I thought I would check ours. I was as surprised as you will be by the numbers, and these emmit constantly in our homes. This isn't right. These should not be sold and yet they are approved by our protection agencies.

The next part I'm a little sketchy on so feel free to correct me in the comments. I'm not a science guy.
On a suggestion from a friend I re-tested the smoke alarm with a folded piece of paper between my geiger and the smoke detector. This is because Alpha rays can be blocked out by a piece of paper. My geiger read 0.35 micro-sieverts with the paper in between. Next I put a piece of 20 gauge steel in between. First I checked the steel { 0.13 micro-sieverts = normal background} Then I put the steel in between the geiger and detector. {0.30 micro-sieverts} This 0,30 micro-sieverts would have to be beta or gamma. If you know...pass it on....below.

Sorry I couldn't film all 3 tests but the info is all here. I don't have to be a genius to realize these smoke alarms are poison. I have read that there are non-radioactive smoke detectors so if you must have one, make sure it's not one of these jobs. The store manager will be getting a visit and I will bring my geiger. Four times background is ridiculous. Also there seems to be no plan anywhere {NRC included} to dispose of these properly. They either go into landfills or get incinerated, and I read that the nasty stuff {Americum} in them, has a half-life of 450 years. Consider this a "Heads up" These should have a big skull and crossbones on the package.

Byron Unit 2 Restarts After Steam Generator Issue - VP says "safety systems passed with flying colors"

Source: Enformable
Date: 2/9/2012

An outage on Jan. 30  at the Byron NuclearPower Plant  started when an electrical insulator failed and fell off the metal structure it was attached to. That interrupted power and caused the reactor to automatically shut down as a precaution.  “The broken insulator was replaced and the NRC inspection team verified the repair,” Viktoria Mitlyng said.
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Map of Byron Nuclear Generating Station:
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2/9/2012 Dutchsinse tests levels at Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Illinois

Source: Dutchsinse

2/9/2012 — Chicago Radiation Tests — Byron Illinois Nuclear power plant and Downtown

Posted on February 9, 2012

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Many thanks to international medcom for the 2nd Inspector Alert geiger counter. Here is a link to their site (they are the manufacturer of the Inspector Alert geiger ) http://medcom.com/

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Here is a compilation list  of radiation measurement videos made in Chicago — I still have another few videos to process — but these videos below represent a bulk of the measurements taken.
Each measurement was done for 10 minutes — using three geiger counters.  Two inspector alert geiger counters — and one CDV-700 (civil defense) geiger counter w/ wand.
This mean each 10 minute video counts for THREE actual counts (there are two separate digital meters running simultaneously, and one analog).
First video of arrival at destination (our room generously donated by a viewer):

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Read full article here
Map of Byron Nuclear Generating Station:
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2/8/2012 NRC expected to give Georgia nuclear reactors the green light

Source: Washington Post
Date: 2/8/2012
by Steven Mufson

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is widely expected to approve on Thursday a construction and operating license for new nuclear power reactors for the first time since 1978, giving Southern Co. the green light to build two new units at its existing Vogtle site in Georgia.
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Map of Vogtle Electric Generating Plant:

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2/7/2012 More Concerns Over San Onofre Safety

Source: San Diego Reader
Date: Posted February 7, 2012, 7:26 a.m.
by: Dave Rice

Concerns about safety and the durability of components at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are continuing to surface as the plant approaches a full week of complete shutdown. The plant’s Unit 3 reactor was taken out of commission after a radioactive water leak was discovered on January 31, while Unit 2 was already down for scheduled maintenance. The Unit 1 reactor was taken offline permanently in 1992.
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Read full article here

See also these great article from ENENews:

1. Nuclear Expert: Pipe ruptures at Calif. nuke plant could have lead to meltdown, China Syndrome, catastrophic radioactivity release (VIDEO)
2. San Onofre Whistleblower: This is extremely significant — They had an actual tube rupture — This is very, very significant (VIDEO)

Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station:

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2/5/2012 Magnitude 5 Earthquake Strikes Near Iran’s Bushehr Nuke Plant

Source: Rianovosti
Date: 13:38 05/02/2012

The Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran

MOSCOW, February 5 (RIA Novosti)

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday.

The earthquake struck at 9:40 a.m. local time (06:10 GMT) on Sunday some 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Bushehr, with its epicenter registered at a depth of 10 km.

There were no reports so far of any casualties or damage to the nuclear power plant caused by the quake.
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2/2/2012 Shining the Light on the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi

Source: Fairewinds Associates
Date: 2/5/2012
by: Arnie Gundersen


CCTV host Margaret Harrington interviews Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education Corp regarding the triple meltdown in March 2011 at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. There were ample warnings that both TEPCO and Japan's regulators ignored steps that would have prevented this tragedy. Throughout the world, nuclear oversight has been compromised by the revolving door and cozy relationship between the nuclear industry and the so-called nuclear regulators who promote nuclear power rather than regulate.

2/5/2012 Russia Nuclear Institute Fire: 'No Threat' Says Government

Source: Reuters via Huffington Post
First Posted: 02/ 5/2012 8:47 am Updated: 02/ 5/2012 3:34 pm 



MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A fire broke out on Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research centre that houses a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor, an emergency official said, and Russia's nuclear agency said there were no open flames and no threat of a radiation leak.
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2/3/2012 San Onofre: One Leaks, the Other Doesn’t… Yet

Source: capitoilette
Date: 2/3/2012


For those who thought that, with the new year, nuclear power had turned a page and put its “annus horribilis” behind it–as if the calendar were somehow the friend America’s aging reactors–let’s take a quick look at January 2012.
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2/2/2012 San Onofre Shutdown Costing Up To $1 Million A Day

Source: KPBS
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012
By: Maureen Cavanaugh, Ed Joyce, Patty Lane, Claire Trageser

Above: Murray Jennex, an associate professor at SDSU's Homeland Security Program and former consultant for San Onofre, speaks with Joanne Faryon on KPBS television's Evening Edition about the San Onofre shutdown.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station remained off-line for a second day today after it was shut down by a small gas leak that possibly spread to the atmosphere.
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Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station:

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2/2/2012 Radiation Leak Minimal in Byron Shutdown: U.S.

Source: NBC 5 Chicago
Date: Thursday, Feb 2, 2012  |  Updated 2:10 PM CST

Radioactive tritium released was not enought to present a danger

The trace amount of radioactive tritium released in steam to cool a reactor during a shutdown at an Illinois nuclear plant was not enough to present a danger to the public, according to the first estimates by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Map of Byron Nuclear Generating Station:

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2/1/2012 IAEA, Iran to meet again after "good" talks

Source: Reuters
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2012 12:51pm EST

By Michael Shields

(Reuters) - Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors plan another trip to Iran later this month after holding what both sides described as good talks on the Islamic state's disputed atomic program.
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2/1/2012 New Risks for Nuclear Plants

Source: Wall Street Journal
Date: 2/1/2012
By: REBECCA SMITH

Nuclear reactors in the central and eastern U.S. face previously unrecognized threats from big earthquakes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday. Experts said upgrading the plants to withstand more substantial earth movements would be costly and could force some to close.

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Read full article here

2/1/2012 Radioactive Leak at California Nuclear Power Plant

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 2/1/2012

Probable Leak at San Onofre Nuclear Plant

The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday:

Officials at the San Onofre nuclear power plant shut down one of the facility’s two units Tuesday evening after a sensor detected a possible leak in a steam generator tube.