Source: smartplanet
Date: 6/17/2011
by: David Worthington
Unsafe levels of radioactive contamination have been reported from multiple sources throughout vast areas of eastern Japan in locations far away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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Note: I have added the Japanese blogger maintained radiation map in the article (http://www.nnistar.com/gmap/fukushima.html) to the collection at the Japan Radiation Map page as "NNI".
Provide radiation related news regarding the Japan Fukushima nuclear plant disaster and global radiation levels and environmental contamination.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
6/18/2011 JST | Fukushima prepares extensive study of radiation health effects on residents
Source: asahi.com
Date: 6/18/2011 JST
by: Yuri Oiwa, Yasufumi Kado and Yoshinori Hayashi
Date: 6/18/2011 JST
by: Yuri Oiwa, Yasufumi Kado and Yoshinori Hayashi
 Residents have their radiation exposure checked in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 22 after temporarily returning to their homes. (The Asahi Shimbun) | FUKUSHIMA--The Fukushima prefectural government plans to monitor health effects from radiation leaking from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in a program that could follow some residents for up to 30 years. The study will be an unprecedented one in terms of length and number of people covered. But because it will be impossible to conduct thorough health checks on all 2 million residents of Fukushima, a two-step plan is being considered. A preliminary study will begin in early July on a small sample of residents from areas that have had high radiation levels in the air. ... Read full article here |
6/18/2011 | TEPCO halts radioactive water treatment at Fukushima Daiichi after only 5 hours
Source: NHK World
Date: 6/18/2011
Date: 6/18/2011
| TEPCO begins new water decontamination system | TEPCO suspends water decontamination system |
Saturday, June 18, 2011 03:55 +0900 (JST) | Saturday, June 18, 2011 13:00 +0900 (JST) |
| The Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun decontaminating radioactive water at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. ... Read full article here | Tokyo Electric Power Company has halted operation of a system to decontaminate highly radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as one of the parts reached its radiation exposure limit in less than 5 hours. ... Read full article here |
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Kombucha’s Protection Against Radiation: Anecdotes, Legends & Science
Source: KombuchaKamp
Date: Unknown
At least 3 studies from the last few years indicate that YES; Kombucha can help reduce the negative effects of radiation exposure in humans. Alrighty, let’s put on our thinking caps and delve into the anecdotes, legends and science behind this assertion.
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Date: Unknown
When tragedy strikes, as it has in Japan, people are forced to confront questions they never thought to ask before. In this case, there are serious questions about radiation, its effects on the body and how to protect oneself in both the short and long term, provoking an unnecessary run on iodine pills. There is a growing chorus in favor of eating fermented and macrobiotic foods and drinking Kombucha to help protect against radiation. But is there any basis that the health benefits of Kombucha extend into this arena? |  |
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Friday, June 17, 2011
6/15/2011 | Earless rabbits found in Chongqing, China
Source: CCTV
Date:6/15/2011
Quoting CCTV:
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Date:6/15/2011
Quoting CCTV:
Shotlist | Storyline |
All rabbits have long ears, but there are a few that do not. These rabbits have recently been found in a villager’s home in Chengkou County of Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. The earless rabbits have bald heads and gray eyes instead of hairy heads and red eyes. The owner of the rabbits said that the mother rabbit used to give normal birth and only this time the new-born were different. The weird news attracted villagers far and near. “Maybe it is because of genetic variation,” said one resident. |
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6/17/2011 | FOX: Is Japan Nuclear Radiation Killing Babies In Philadelphia? Infant Death Rate Spikes 48 Percent Since Radiation Detected In Drinking Water
Source: Alexander Higgins Blog
Date: June 17, 2011 at 3:19 am
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Date: June 17, 2011 at 3:19 am
FOX news is raising the red flag about a 48% spike in Philadelphia infant deaths since Philly drinking water tests showed the highest levels of Japan nuclear radiation in the nation.
As previously reported experts have noticed a 35% increase in infant deaths in the Northwest US since the Fukushima disaster....
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6/16/2011 | Rising water, falling journalism
Source: Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists
Date: 6/16/2011
by: Dawn Stover
Every evening, my father climbs the levee along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and peers down into the black water that swallows the road. The water is rising, and the Army Corps of Engineers says the levee has never faced such a test. Dad, a retired professor, is packing his books and papers. If the levee doesn't hold, his one-story house could be underwater for months.
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Date: 6/16/2011
by: Dawn Stover
Every evening, my father climbs the levee along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and peers down into the black water that swallows the road. The water is rising, and the Army Corps of Engineers says the levee has never faced such a test. Dad, a retired professor, is packing his books and papers. If the levee doesn't hold, his one-story house could be underwater for months.
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Read entire article here (it is very good)
6/17/2011 JST | News navigator: What are radiation 'hot spots'?
Source: The Mainichi Daily News
Date: 6/17/2011
Date: 6/17/2011
The Mainichi answers common questions readers may have about radiation "hot spots." Question: The term "hot spot" has been appearing in the news lately with regards to radiation, but what does it mean? Answer: The term refers to areas where radiation levels are comparatively higher than the areas around them, regardless of distance from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. The village of Iitate, Fukushima, where residents were asked to evacuate after it was predicted radiation exposure levels could reach 20 millisieverts a year, is one such "hot spot." Similar concentrations of radiation have also been measured at other, smaller hot spots. Residents have expressed anxiety over these comparatively high measurements. ... Read full article here |  In this photo from a footage of a live camera released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), black smoke billows from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan, on March 22, 2011. (AP Photo) |
6/17/2011 | Emergency classifications cause confusion in semantics with regards to Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station
Date: 6/17/2011
by: Jason Chan
I have been reading some local Omaha news sites and noticed that the OPPD (Omaha Public Power District) has created a rumor control page.
Yes, it is true that there was a semantics error with citizen journalists picking up on what a particular radio talk show host originally called a "level 4 emergency" and repeating this in their own reports, when the official reports show at the highest a level 2 emergency ("Alert") being issued, with the current severity level being set back to a level 1 emergency ("Notification of Unusual Event") with regards to the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station. This assumes the 4 level nuclear event scale used in the United States. Per the NRC's (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) Backgrounder on Emergency Preparedness at Nuclear Power Plants:
Here is a possible scenario on how the "level 4 emergency" terminology error got started:
1. Robert Knight host of the 5 O'clock Shadow radio show interviews Arnie Gundersen, esteemed nuclear industry expert and says that Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station is at a "level 4 emergency". I believe this was an honest mistake in semantics. The "level 4 emergency" terminology slips by Mr. Gundersen's guard who compliments the host's overall summary of the situation at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station in the host's opening remark. Note, however, that the interview is excellent overall.
2. Conscientious YouTube activists and other websites pick up on the "level 4 emergency" terminology and it is propagated.
3. Jeff Rense, famous late night radio talk show host, says that Arnie Gundersen himself stated that Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station is at a "level 4 emergency". Arnie Gundersen never actually said this but rather did not correct Mr. Knight the interviewer from the 5 O'clock Shadow radio program. Robert Knight is the one who said Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station is at a "level 4 emergency". I feel Mr. Rense also made an honest mistake and his overall coverage of Fukushima or radiation dangers is excellent.
There is both a U.S. and international nuclear event scale where the U.S. scale has 4 levels and the international scale (formally known as the INES, or International Nuclear Event Scale) has 7 levels. The various event levels have a bureaucratic nomenclature and classification rules associated with them as well. It is easy to see how errors in semantics can occur when not everyone is a nuclear expert.
I first found out about the situation with Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station (and later Cooper Nuclear Station) from the Glowing Conversations Facebook group, where a group member had posted the viral YouTube video about Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station by a YouTube activist, not from corporate controlled news sources. Local newspapers and television stations have been reporting on the flooding dangers with regards to Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station and Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska but unless you live in the areas covered by the local news, you probably did not hear about it. What prompted me to do my own research is my social network and the YouTube activists.
The article titled Midwest Floods: Both Nebraska Nuke Stations Threatened by Rady Ananda of thepeoplesvoice.org is the best article so far that I have found which covers the nuclear power plants, flooding and nuclear event levels. I will defer to the article's explanation of the various event levels.
I noticed that the article also has a slight error in reporting with regards to Cooper Nuclear Station. The author, who correctly points out the "level 4 emergency" terminology is in error actually is entrapped by semantics/bureaucratic nomenclature himself. The sludge release per the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) was never classified as a NOUE (Notification of Unusual Event) as the article states, it was classified as a non-emergency event.
I do not blame the author or other conscientious people one bit for making semantics errors. I personally would choose honest reporting with semantics errors any time of the day versus overt propaganda or whitewash/deceptive reporting. Besides it is one's personal responsibility to check up on all news sources no matter where they come from.
by: Jason Chan
I have been reading some local Omaha news sites and noticed that the OPPD (Omaha Public Power District) has created a rumor control page.
Yes, it is true that there was a semantics error with citizen journalists picking up on what a particular radio talk show host originally called a "level 4 emergency" and repeating this in their own reports, when the official reports show at the highest a level 2 emergency ("Alert") being issued, with the current severity level being set back to a level 1 emergency ("Notification of Unusual Event") with regards to the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station. This assumes the 4 level nuclear event scale used in the United States. Per the NRC's (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) Backgrounder on Emergency Preparedness at Nuclear Power Plants:
...Numbering from top to bottom, level 1 emergency=Notification of Unusual Event, level 2 emergency=Alert, level 3 emergency=Site Area Emergency, level 4 emergency=General Emergency with a level 1 being the least severe and level 4 being the most severe.
Emergency Classification
Emergency Classification is a set of plant conditions which indicate a level of risk to the public. Nuclear power plants use the four emergency classifications listed below in order of increasing severity.
Notification of Unusual Event - Under this category, events are in process or have occurred which indicate potential degradation in the level of safety of the plant. No release of radioactive material requiring offsite response or monitoring is expected unless further degradation occurs.
Alert - If an alert is declared, events are in process or have occurred that involve an actual or potential substantial degradation in the level of safety of the plant. Any releases of radioactive material from the plant are expected to be limited to a small fraction of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protective action guides (PAGs). Additional information regarding PAGs can be found on the EPA Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/rert/pags.html.
Site Area Emergency - A site area emergency involves events in process or which have occurred that result in actual or likely major failures of plant functions needed for protection of the public. Any releases of radioactive material are not expected to exceed the EPA PAGs except near the site boundary.
General Emergency - A general emergency involves actual or imminent substantial core damage or melting of reactor fuel with the potential for loss of containment integrity. Radioactive releases during a general emergency can reasonably be expected to exceed the EPA PAGs for more than the immediate site area.
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Here is a possible scenario on how the "level 4 emergency" terminology error got started:
1. Robert Knight host of the 5 O'clock Shadow radio show interviews Arnie Gundersen, esteemed nuclear industry expert and says that Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station is at a "level 4 emergency". I believe this was an honest mistake in semantics. The "level 4 emergency" terminology slips by Mr. Gundersen's guard who compliments the host's overall summary of the situation at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station in the host's opening remark. Note, however, that the interview is excellent overall.
2. Conscientious YouTube activists and other websites pick up on the "level 4 emergency" terminology and it is propagated.
3. Jeff Rense, famous late night radio talk show host, says that Arnie Gundersen himself stated that Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station is at a "level 4 emergency". Arnie Gundersen never actually said this but rather did not correct Mr. Knight the interviewer from the 5 O'clock Shadow radio program. Robert Knight is the one who said Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station is at a "level 4 emergency". I feel Mr. Rense also made an honest mistake and his overall coverage of Fukushima or radiation dangers is excellent.
There is both a U.S. and international nuclear event scale where the U.S. scale has 4 levels and the international scale (formally known as the INES, or International Nuclear Event Scale) has 7 levels. The various event levels have a bureaucratic nomenclature and classification rules associated with them as well. It is easy to see how errors in semantics can occur when not everyone is a nuclear expert.
I first found out about the situation with Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station (and later Cooper Nuclear Station) from the Glowing Conversations Facebook group, where a group member had posted the viral YouTube video about Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station by a YouTube activist, not from corporate controlled news sources. Local newspapers and television stations have been reporting on the flooding dangers with regards to Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station and Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska but unless you live in the areas covered by the local news, you probably did not hear about it. What prompted me to do my own research is my social network and the YouTube activists.
The article titled Midwest Floods: Both Nebraska Nuke Stations Threatened by Rady Ananda of thepeoplesvoice.org is the best article so far that I have found which covers the nuclear power plants, flooding and nuclear event levels. I will defer to the article's explanation of the various event levels.
I noticed that the article also has a slight error in reporting with regards to Cooper Nuclear Station. The author, who correctly points out the "level 4 emergency" terminology is in error actually is entrapped by semantics/bureaucratic nomenclature himself. The sludge release per the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) was never classified as a NOUE (Notification of Unusual Event) as the article states, it was classified as a non-emergency event.
I do not blame the author or other conscientious people one bit for making semantics errors. I personally would choose honest reporting with semantics errors any time of the day versus overt propaganda or whitewash/deceptive reporting. Besides it is one's personal responsibility to check up on all news sources no matter where they come from.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
6/16/2011 | Fukushima Daiichi reactor 1 dry well radiation dose at new highs (263 Sieverts/hour))
Source: http://atmc.jp/
Date: 6/16/2011 4:54 PM CST (chart snapshot taken)
There is a new record high in the reactor 1 data set of 263 Sieverts/hour. The old record high was 261 Sieverts/hour. It seems like when the radiation dosage of the dry well gets high, they manage to get the radiation down at which point the radiation spikes again. The chart looks like a sloppy Sine wave.
Date: 6/16/2011 4:54 PM CST (chart snapshot taken)
There is a new record high in the reactor 1 data set of 263 Sieverts/hour. The old record high was 261 Sieverts/hour. It seems like when the radiation dosage of the dry well gets high, they manage to get the radiation down at which point the radiation spikes again. The chart looks like a sloppy Sine wave.
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Location: Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant Date: Mar 15, 2011 (Tuesday) - June 16, 2011 (Thursday) The latest: D / W: two hundred sixty-three Sv / h , S / C: 0.826 Sv / h Situation Defective meter
Date D / W S / C 6 / 16 263 0.826 6 / 15 162 0.826 6 / 14 28.1 0.830 6 / 13 102 0.835 6 / 12 261 0.838 6 / 11 91.1 0.841 6 / 10 51.0 0.842 6 / 09 224 0.839 6 / 04 250.0 0.889 6 / 03 222.0 0.898 6 / 02 209.0 0.909 6 / 01 185.0 0.919 5 / 31 59.0 0.928 5 / 30 41.8 0.936 5 / 29 225 0.944 5 / 28 215 0.950 5 / 27 63.8 0.959 5 / 26 43.7 0.958 5 / 25 215 0.987 5 / 24 192 0.997 5 / 23 201 1.01 5 / 22 196 1.01 5 / 21 36.2 1.02 
NISA plant parameters have been published (when the reactor), the amount of nuclear radiation has been graphed.
You can check the daily water temperature, pressure and radiation dose of No. 1-5, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors.
As soon as the data is published and updated as the graph.
No. 4 is stopped when there is no body checking in the reactor fuel for, are excluded from the list.
Meaning of the terms in the chart below.
D / W stands for ... well dry. Containment vessel to the body. S / C ... stands for the suppression chamber. To the pressure suppression chamber.
※ The value of the graph shows the maximum absolute value of the day.
6/16/2011 JST | TEPCO tests treatment system for radioactive water
Source: AP via Japan Today
Date: Jun. 16, 2011 - 07:10AM JST
TOKYO — Workers at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Wednesday tested a treatment system for highly-radioactive water now kept in temporary storage that may overflow within days. The idea is to decontaminate the water and eventually reuse it as core coolant. Following a final test, the system is set to enter full operation Friday.
The March 11 disaster knocked out power and crucial cooling systems at the Fukushima plant, melting fuel in three reactors and leaking massive radiation into the environment.
Some radioactive water was released from the plant into the ocean, causing concerns about contamination of seafood.
The leakage stopped after the plant operator sealed cracks, built oil fences around the plant and took other steps.
Date: Jun. 16, 2011 - 07:10AM JST
TOKYO — Workers at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Wednesday tested a treatment system for highly-radioactive water now kept in temporary storage that may overflow within days. The idea is to decontaminate the water and eventually reuse it as core coolant. Following a final test, the system is set to enter full operation Friday.
The March 11 disaster knocked out power and crucial cooling systems at the Fukushima plant, melting fuel in three reactors and leaking massive radiation into the environment.
Some radioactive water was released from the plant into the ocean, causing concerns about contamination of seafood.
The leakage stopped after the plant operator sealed cracks, built oil fences around the plant and took other steps.
6/17/2011 JST | Kansai mulls own nuke nightmare vulnerability
Source: The Japan Times
Date: Friday, June 17, 2011 JST
by: ERIC JOHNSTON
Date: Friday, June 17, 2011 JST
by: ERIC JOHNSTON
OSAKA — The crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has heightened concern in the Kansai region, where 15 atomic reactors are located less than 55 km from Japan's largest freshwater lake, a source of water for millions of people in Kyoto and Osaka.
The fears and questions being raised about the effects of a nuclear accident at one of the Fukui Prefecture plants has spurred local governors to review their disaster plans. All of Kansai's nuclear power is generated by reactors on the Sea of Japan coast in Fukui. ... Read full article here |  Any tips?: Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada (front left) and Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada meet with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (front right) on April 17 in the city of Fukushima. KYODO PHOTO |
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