8/17/2011 Honest Japanese return $78million in cash found in earthquake rubble

Source: UK Mail Online
Date: 6:54 PM on 17th August 2011
by: David Gardner

Japanese citizens have shown incredible honesty in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that brought the country to its knees.
It emerged yesterday that the Japanese returned almost $78million in cash found in the quake rubble.
In the five months since the disaster struck, people have turned in thousands of wallets and purses found in the debris, containing nearly $30 million in cash.

Amidst the rubble: Police officers in protective suits searching for victims after the tsunami hit Fukushima Prefecture in Minamisoma City in March

More than 5,700 safes that washed ashore along the coastline have also been hauled to police stations by volunteers and rescue crews.
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8/9/2011 Japan Tsunami Broke Off Icebergs in Antarctica

Source: Wired Science
Date: August 9, 2011 11:54 am
by: Dave Mosher


New space-based images show the same tsunami that devastated Japan also caused a series of giant icebergs to break off halfway around the world in Antarctica.
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8/14/2011 Radiating Americans with Fukushima rain, food: Clinton's secret pact

Source: The Examiner
Date: 8/14/2011
by: Deborah Dupre

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs 2009

Credits: 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Government agreed to downplay Fukushima radiation

Fukushima is far from stabilized according to energy advisor veteran with 39 years of nuclear power engineering experience, Arnie Gundersen who told Solar IMG Saturday that Americans, not just in the northwest, are unaware of being rained on with Fukushima nuclear hot particles and eating Fukushima contaminated food because the US government has deliberately minimized the catastrophe, partially due to a pact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed with Japan. Gundersen, with a team of other scientists, intends to prove government statements about Fukushima are false.
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8/18/2011 Hartmann - Fukushima...is this the China Syndrome?

Source: RT News
Date: 8/18/2011


Paul Gunter from Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann.  Meanwhile, Japan is not out of the danger zone...in fact the nuclear crisis is getting worse and worse!  We've recently learned from Japan that the amount of radiation released was more than 20 times that from the Hiroshima bomb, and now it looks they may be experiencing the early stages of a total China Syndrome meltdown. And is the United States in danger too?

Editor's Note: For more details about the serious fallout situation in Japan from Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama (witness speaking in front of Japanese Diet in the first part of the video), see "7/27/2011 Video with English Caption: Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama of Tokyo University Tells the Politicians: "What Are You Doing?".

The recent Los Angeles Times article Thom Hartman is referring to is "Radioactive isotope, maybe from Fukushima, detected, but ...".

8/18/2011 Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 1 Dry Well Radiation 412 Sv/hr, all time highs!

Source: http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/?n=1
Date: 8/18/2011 12:40 PM CST

The chart was stuck for a while so I stopped checking back, but noticed someone had posted an article from ENENEWS in one of my radiation groups in FaceBook. This is scary, 412 Sv/hour today in the reactor 1 dry well when reactor 2 and 3 show 10.9 and 3.69 Sieverts/hour respectively. Here is snapshot of the chart as of 12:40 PM CST:

Location:	Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
Date:	March 11, 2011 (Friday) - 18 Aug 2011 (Thu)
Latest value:	D / W: four hundred and twelve Sv / h , S / C: .701 Sv / h
Present situation	Defective meter

Date D / W S / C 8 / 18 412 0.701 8 / 17 35.3 0.706 8 / 16 39.9 0.707 8 / 15 359 0.713 8 / 14 68.6 0.713 8 / 13 364 0.713 8 / 12 360 0.717 8 / 11 52.8 0.718 8 / 10 356 0.72 8 / 09 306 0.719 8 / 08 145 0.724 8 / 07 296 0.725 8 / 06 70.8 0.727 8 / 05 371 0.729 8 / 04 355 0.731 8 / 03 355 0.732 8 / 02 210 0.734 8 / 01 46.5 0.735 7 / 31 356 0.736 7 / 30 225 0.737 7 / 29 217 0.739 7 / 28 209 0.74 7 / 27 289 0.738 7 / 26 39.6 0.74 7 / 25 272 0.742 7 / 24 217 0.742 7 / 23 176 0.746 7 / 22 38.4 0.749 7 / 21 36.6 0.748 7 / 20 39.3 0.75 7 / 19 206 0.752 7 / 18 175 0.752 7 / 17 57.5 0.752 7 / 16 71.9 0.754 7 / 15 81.5 0.754 7 / 14 95 0.756 7 / 13 43.2 0.758 7 / 12 65 0.759 7 / 11 253 0.761 7 / 10 220 0.763 7 / 09 70 0.763 7 / 08 44.5 0.764 7 / 07 37.3 0.764 7 / 06 38.3 0.765 7 / 05 41.9 0.766 7 / 04 264 0.767 7 / 03 266 0.769 7 / 02 230 0.772 7 / 01 214 0.774 6 / 30 197 0.776 6 / 29 37.5 0.776 6 / 28 60 0.775 6 / 27 79.2 0.795 6 / 26 263 0.799 6 / 25 282 0.8 6 / 24 257 0.801 6 / 23 119 0.804 6 / 22 245 0.805 6 / 21 223 0.807 6 / 20 51 0.806 6 / 19 82.1 0.817 6 / 18 226 0.82 6 / 17 190 0.823 6 / 16 291 0.826 6 / 15 262 0.827 6 / 14 269 0.831 6 / 13 252 0.836 6 / 12 261 0.839 6 / 11 246 0.841 6 / 10 278 0.843 6 / 09 239 0.842 6 / 08 58 0.859 6 / 07 280 0.868 6 / 06 253 0.874 6 / 05 87.2 0.882 6 / 04 254 0.89 6 / 03 229 0.9 6 / 02 240 0.911 6 / 01 209 0.921 5 / 31 190 0.929 5 / 30 236 0.937 5 / 29 234 0.945 5 / 28 229 0.954 5 / 27 233 0.959 5 / 26 58.2 0.96 5 / 25 247 0.988 5 / 24 205 0.999 5 / 23 201 1.01 5 / 22 200 1.02 5 / 21 51.8 1.02 5 / 20 46.7 1.03 5 / 19 55.4 1.04 5 / 18 45.4 1.04 5 / 17 218 1.05 5 / 16 45.2 1.05 5 / 15 229 1.06 5 / 14 257 1.07 5 / 13 226 1.08 5 / 12 212 1.09 5 / 11 204 1.1

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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.
All information is automatically graphed the information that is published by CSV. No. 4 is the value of CSV information has not been published, not shown.
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.

8/17/2011 Christopher Busby: Chernobyl-like radiation found in Tokyo

Source: RT News
Date: 8/17/2011


Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the fissures. They also say pipes and at least one reactor were seriously damaged before the tsunami hit the area in March. RT talks to Christopher Busby of the European Committee on Radiation Risks.

8/17/2011 U.S. Knew Within Days that Fukushima Had Melted Down

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011

I noted in May that that International Atomic Energy Agency knew within weeks of the Japanese earthquake that the reactors had melted down ... but the public was not told for a month and a half.
I pointed out in June:

As the prestigious scientific journal Nature notes:

Shortly after a massive tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on 11 March, an unmanned monitoring station on the outskirts of Takasaki, Japan, logged a rise in radiation levels. Within 72 hours, scientists had analysed samples taken from the air and transmitted their analysis to Vienna, Austria — the headquarters of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), an international body set up to monitor nuclear weapons tests.
It was just the start of a flood of data collected about the accident by the CTBTO's global network of 63 radiation monitoring stations. In the following weeks, the data were shared with governments around the world, but not with academics or the public.

The attempted cover up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster is nothing new. Governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years, and the basic design for nuclear reactors was not chosen for safety, but because it worked on Navy submarines ... and produced plutonium for the military.

(Indeed, the government's response to every crisis appears to be to try to cover it up; and see this.)

Today, Yomiuri Shinbun reports (Google translation) that the U.S. knew within days that Fukushima had melted down:

The subject of evacuating the US citizens was raised in the early hours on March 16 (local time). The US ... already knew about the unusually high temperature of the reactors from the Global Hawk data, and determined that “the fuel has already melted”.

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The US high-ranking officials wanted to evacuate the US citizens [Tokyo] but the local officials including Maher objected, as “it would severely undermine the US-Japan alliance”

(The Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial aircraft).