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As BOJ Injects Fresh ¥2 Trillion, Radiation Measured 20 km Away From Fukushima Is 1,600 Times Normal
While Japanese futures briefly flirted with another advance, they subsequently dropped by 1% to 9,450, even despite the BOJ's latest injection of 2 trillion yen, which if it continues at this rate will surpass 100 trillion yen in injections within two weeks: an unprecedented feat, even by the Federal Reserve's standards. Of particular note weighing on the markets has been the news from Kyodo that, in confirmation of our fears that zones "Under Survey" are nothing but hotbeds of unprecedented radiation, reported radiation levels are 1,600 times higher than normal 20 kilometers from the power plant. Recall that the first evacuation radius was just 10 km. Assuming a power rate of declining fall out strength, means that the radiation within the 20 km diameter circle centered on Fukushina is currently hundreds of thousands to millions of time higher than normal.
From Kyodo:
Radiation 1,600 times higher than normal levels has been detected in an area about 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, International Atomic Energy Agency officials said Monday.
Data collected by an IAEA team show that radiation levels of 161 microsievert per hour have been detected in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, the officials said.
The government has set an exclusion zone covering areas within a 20-km radius of the plant and has urged people within 20 to 30 km to stay indoors.
We are eagerly awaiting the announcement from the Japanese government that the "new normal" is 1,601 greater than the old one. And that Hydrogen bonds between purines and pyrimidines, contrary to conventional wisdom, are really made of adamantium, and no amount of incremental high energy electromagnetism can possibly break them apart.
And below is the most recent reactor update from the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum. Compare this to that from 5 days ago.
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Yes, 1440 chest xrays yearly eases the stress.
And with the possibility (likelihood) of much higher levels to come.
From the DIY file:
You can make a boron suit to protect against radiation. Soak your clothes in a water solution with boric acid or borax and let dry. The boron will soak up and absorb the radiation.
Afterwards, you can put them in a plastic bag and place it on your solar batteries to charge them up as needed.
Yeah, but it would take a 20 MULE TEAM to accomplish that, and then, given the latent/mutant/radioactive characteristic end up looking like this...
http://www.mymccrearyhomesucks.com/images/floozies-borat.jpg
So why bother?
How long are you planning on wearing that suit?
Just askin'. :-)
Boron only soaks up neutrons, which are long gone by now.
The "new normal" is an atomic volcano.
We have ringside seats for the fall of "western civilization". Awesome coverage from ZH, thanks TD.
when you taste something like iron in your mouth, it's to late. Along
buy the fucking dip....
Silver @ $36.29 as trending up continues.
Actually a sweet, metallic taste accompanied by a dry scratchy throat, upset stomach and loose bowels.
Connect the dots. There are multiple Genies that are out of the bottle. I give it another week and Tokyo, Japan will be in full scale evac mode.
The smoke at No.3 and No.2 in the early hours of this morning means a big release travelling SSW (in the photo I saw and where there is smoke there is fire, even if it's not a naked flame yet).
Remember the TV cartoon, "Smokie the Bear"?
Get ready for "Smokie the Bear rides again".
What worries me is the smoke clouds were visibly still mixed with steam from No.3.
i.e. this is just the first puff of what's coming
[Solution: Get Nobel-Peace-Prize-in-Chief to start another regime change or three]
So they hyperinflation flash point will be Japan. Hadn't expected that 2 weeks ago, but, there ya go. I wonder if anyone is modeling what happens to the carry trade if the Yen goes to 0?
2 weeks ago I would never have guessed it either. It's amazing how fast change can happen.
The past is dead, gone.
There is only this moment, maybe the next...
This was posted today. "It's yesterday in outer space".
+2
Won't the Japan/deflation/Prechterites be surprised?
I was in the deflation camp, until it became obvious that the laws would not be followed. Now I'm just waiting for the crack up boom. Japan is my prime candidate now.
Ditto that (I "was" in the deflation camp)...
But then I started thinking... Why TF? would central banking cartels, (given the KNOWN and/or IMMINENT conflagration of fiat collapse), and KNOWING the end game was DEFLATION/HYPERINFLATION, choose deflation (which would essentially be an end to their franchise)?...
In simplistic terms, HYPERINFLATION would be the "cocktail du jour", because KNOWING, in advance, the road to perdition, how hard would it be to PRINT THEMSELVES unlimited fiat to buy up all the physical assets to survive the aftermath?
Think of it this way...
- The HOUSING BUBBLE was the biggest "land grab" in the history of the planet (they hold most all of the notes there)
- They OWN the politicians (who can funnel the "monthly nut" into their coffers via the US taxpayer)
Now all they need are the resources... PHYSICAL everything...
With all the "debt money" NEEDED to keep the sheeps glued to the box, they can print as much as they want (hopefully keeping the lid on PANDORA'S BOX until they have as much "PRECIOUS" is needed to commence with the NWO)...
Here's HOPING it won't be as EASY for them as their central planning would suggest...
Cin cin...
No, I believe they are so fundementally devoted to their Keynsian crackpottery, that they simply do not think it is possible. I mean counterfeiting always ends up concentrating wealth in the hands of the printers, so...
assuming they EXCHANGE it in time...
That's why Madoff isn't playing anymore, but "the Bernank" is still in the game...
I'm stilll in the deflation camp if the Fed follows the rules on credit creation. If they just drop bundles of notes from a chopper for all their friends and family without any concideration in return then all bets are off.
Sure, i guess the deflationists have time on their side though. Whatever happens , it ends with the dreaded D.
Wouldnt advocate a short though, the margin calls gonna sting.
"I was in the deflation camp, until it became obvious that the laws would not be followed."
The tipping point in the inflation versus deflation debate.
if the Yen goes to 0...They win the race. And boy is the Bernank gonna be jealous.
Some victory. lol
Get ready for panic in Tokyo.
I'm very confident it sets in as soon as tomorrow.
It's going to be interesting to see 1/3 to 1/2 the residents of a city that densely packed try to leave at the same time.
As a scientist who's name escapes me now was quoted as saying: "Rainwater is a very effective and efficient carrier of radiation."
These levels 20km and 30km outside of Fukushima are just air levels. What about when it rains? What about when the releases and concentrations increase?
I forgot who said it but, neon swan bitchez.
How about invisible, odourless and tasteless swann?
As the Japanese firefighters call it, the "invisible enemy".
OT: Sometimes a picture is worth a 1,000 words. Here I present the Libyan crisis with such a photo:
http://i.imgur.com/rV8z0.jpg
Is this real? What a manufactured war..
When Three Mile Island happened there was 100X more media hype and minimal radiation. Now media is an extension of government
nifty little blog with pictures of Reactor Entombment from Chernobyl
http://www.concretepumping.com/index.php?mode=newboard&act=topic&tid=8468
Nikkei up 3%. Apparently only we here at ZH think that there is still a problem.
In related news, Self-Defense Forces along with US black ops units and Trilateral Commission mutant rangers were reportedly in hot pursuit of a rogue IAEA official carrying an unauthorized, properly calibrated radiation monitor.
"Such instruments have not been subjected to our health-based mallet pounding into scrap and are therefore deemed 'Under Servey' and must be impounded" states a Ministry of Costumes, Slow Recurring Gestures, Science, and Tap-Dancing official.
"Tap-Dancing official"?
All this and entertainment too?
Bread (QE) and Circus (parades of liars)
ROTFLMAO. Fantastic Pythonesquery!
indeed. excellent literary skillz, Jim. LMAO, too
The information blackout has been quite fascinating to observe, and the obvious disinformation continues to flow. It seems as if the conflicting (and damaging) reports that were coming out earlier as to elevated radiation readings caused TEPCO and the Japanese government to suffer some degree of embarassment. Now they have clearly streamlined the flow of information, and any conflicting reports are quickly ignored or marginalized.
Bah! Just raise the "normal" level to 1601. Problem solved! Anyway, it's all priced in, right?
If there is a pinic in Tokyo it will come from posts such as this one.
1600 times very near zero is still very near zero.
You're advocating picnics at a time like this?!?! Granted it IS the first day of spring, but really...
Nuclear reactors bitchez!!!
An interactive map.
http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2011/03/16/the-nuclear-world-interactive-map/
Over the coming months, with winds changing directions. I think no one will want to live in Tokyo. And that Northern Japan will largely be uninhabitable.
incredible. How do you move 10 million people?
Tell them they're giving away free WIC and LINK cards in Pyongyang ...................................
Did anyone else catch the video of the tanks moving out to the site of the reactors? I saw it over the weekend and can't recall exactly where that was.
found the story. Tyler, care to comment on this development...
Japan: Tanks to Remove Debris at Quake-Hit Japan Nuke Plant
Jiji Press ^ | 03/20/11
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2011032100028
Tanks to Remove Debris at Quake-Hit Japan Nuke Plant
Tokyo, March 20 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Defense Ministry on Sunday ordered the Ground Self-Defense Force to send two tanks to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to remove debris at the quake-hit plant to facilitate work to prevent a radiation disaster.
The Type 74 battle tanks and other relief vehicles left a GSDF garrison in Gotenba, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, in the evening and will arrive in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima early Monday morning, the ministry said.
As soon as they receive a request for action, the large blade-attached tanks will enter the radiation-exposed plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> to clear debris from roads for vehicles to spray water to cool nuclear reactors whose safety systems were battered by the 9.0-magnitude quake and subsequent massive tsunami on March 11.
A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking real money...
nah..., it s only paper.
The Financial Post (editorial page) jumps on the alleged Ann Coulter bandwagon: limited amounts of gamma radiation is actually GOOD for you!
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/03/21/lawrence-solomon-reactor-victims-will-benefit-studies-show/
I am curious - could someone summarize the differences between the massive, singular flash of a nuclear weapon discharge and the constant, ongoing irradiation from very large volumes of nuclear fuel rods exposed to the environment (plus any particulate matter such exposure might create)?
I'm starting to love this bizzaro world where a leaking nuclear power plant is:
- Good for the markets
- Good for your health
If we can organize a meltdown every couple of weeks the Dow will be at 20,000 by Dec - plus we get to live an extra 10 years to enjoy the proceeds.
Dr Fukulove - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Meltdown
Fukushima mon amour...
Look up radiation hormesis.
Interesting. I am not about to dismiss it out of hand, but I was thinking more about the question of of singular vs. continuous exposure.
Weather in Sukugawa, city just at the southern end of Fukushima Prefecture but in the mountain valley/arterial highway corridor inland: Snowy, winds from the NNE.
http://weather.weatherbug.com/Japan/Sukagawa-weather.html
Weather at Mito, on the northern edge of the Kanto Plain by the sea: Rain, winds from the ENE.
http://weather.weatherbug.com/Japan/Mito-weather.html?zcode=z6286
Not good.
Time to buy uranium, it's a bargain.
Can I take delivery? Physical FTW!
but you can't eat uranium.....
Tyler, just an idea. Try to track to where the japanese elite families are moving on. The Elites always are well informed. Maybe starting by tracking Toyota president family.
And another background piece for y'all: is it daytime in Japan? Or Libya or any other Black Swan port o' call?
http://www.daylightmap.com/?lat=0.000000&lng=0.000000&z=2&t=s&c=1&m=a&hl=en
They're still waiting on the Gonzo aftershock. Usually 1 level down with a scattering of 7's. The only redeeming feature is that with all this radiation they'll be able to find the bodies at night.
Whoa, looks like the sun is gonna throw em some good ol ultraviolet radiation to boot.
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/turbulent-region-o...
“Given the weather, it is likely that contaminations have occurred beyond that, up to 100 kilometres or so.''
New fears as radiation levels soarI saw a still picture of No.3 just before i got on the 'puter this morning.
Believe me, the smoke at No.3 is SERIOUS, it is coming from the roof, not below it, and it was DARK and THICK and BILLOWING, and steam was evaporating near its base, and it was headed generally SSW overland
Yes. And at Fukushima Daiichi, where's there thick smoke, there's an assload of radiation.
NHK had a livestream tonight whereby the firechief was basically saying the terminally ill emergency workers are owed gratitude by the nation, I think, as the translation from Japanese to English is tricky.
He also talked of pumps and firetrucks breaking down after 13 plus hours of use, reasons unexplained.
Element - Is there a link to the photo of No. 3 with the serious smoke?
so, according to the ptb:
3 GE built reactors blow up next to 600 tons of nuclear waste = no big deal.
1 terrist in a remote cave in afghanistan with an RPG = A BIG ****ING DEAL!
we're screwed.
A $trillion in damage seems like a big deal to me. But it takes more than a few RPGs to do that. What you need are airplanes.
It had to come to this...a bull market in salt. Now we can all die.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/stories/salt-panic-chinese-fearing-japan-...
Exposure of 161 microsievert per hour x 12 hours = 1932 microsieverts over a 24 hour period. Is that correct?
According to an article on radiation exposure, the symptoms for that level of exposure (1000 to 3000 in a day) would be
1000 to 3000 mSv - nausea is mild to severe, no appetite, considerably higher susceptibility to infections. Injury to the following will be more severe - spleen, lymph node and bone marrow. The patient will most likely recover, but this is not guaranteed
· For 3,000 to 6,000 mSv - nausea much more severe, loss of appetite, serious risk of infections, diarrhea, skin peels, sterility. If left untreated the person will die. There will also be hemorrhaging.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/219615.php
Micro (denoted by Greek letter mu, lowercase μ) = 10^-6 (0.000001) - one millionth
Milli (denoted by Latin letter m) = 10^-3 (0.001) - one thousandth
Big difference.
ok please explain as I'm obviously missing it!
mSv = millisievert = one thousandth of a Sievert
μSv = microsievert = one millionth of a Sievert
I don't know how to explain it any better. There are three orders of magnitude between the units, just like there are between kilo and mega.
Messing up micros and millies is likely to accelerate the acquisition of the willies.
It's true that you have micros instead of millis here. But, you also calculated for 12 hours rather than 24. So, 3,864 microsieverts per day.
Somewhere around a tenth of a sievert results in immediate bad health effects (no one seems to be talking about the long term cancer risk). 0.1 sievert = 100,000 microsieverts, or about 25 days.
One sievert is obviously not good. Call it 250 days, roughly 8 months.
thanks! I've obviously lost my ability to calculate. The battles with my son over eating sea weed have weakened my intellect...
More printing for the Banks and more radiation for the people.
How nice.
Usually countries spend big before they collapse...Japan is doing the roman thing
*11:39p ET March 21, 2011 (Dow Jones) Imminent Earthquake Warning Issued For Northeast Japan, Kanto Regions (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires 03-21-11 2339ET
What's with these earthquake warnings? There is no such thing as an earthquake warning... if there was, you think they would have issued one before the 8.9 hit.
Looks like although building #2 is only 'slightly damaged,' vessel containment for #2 is suspected to be damaged.
It still is beyond me how after a week nothing really productive has been done to bring the situation under control. How could disaster preparations have been so blatantly lacking? It's mind boggling to say the least
Oh come on. I bet readers here can think of plenty of ways for this guy to atone. Bet he's good with a hose...
Minister Kaieda sorry for reportedly 'forcing' water-spraying missionTOKYO, March 22, Kyodo
Industry minister Banri Kaieda apologized Tuesday over reports that he threatened to ''punish'' fire fighters if they did not carry out an operation to spray water toward a quake-hit nuclear reactor building in Fukushima Prefecture.
He refrained from admitting whether he actually made such remarks, but told a press conference, ''If my remarks offended fire fighters...I would like to apologize on that point.''
The move came after Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara on Monday lodged a protest with Prime Minister Naoto Kan over the ''forcing'' of Tokyo Fire Department members dispatched to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to engage in an hours-long water-spraying mission and referring to ''punishment'' if they refused the task.
According to Ishihara, Kan apologized over the matter. Ishihara said that he did not know who actually said so, but sources close to the metropolitan government said Kaieda made the remarks.
Ishihara also said that equipment broke down because of the continuous mission, which involved spraying water toward the troubled No. 3 reactor building for 13 hours at a time.
Kaieda serves as a deputy head of the nuclear disaster task force jointly set up by the government and the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. and headed by Kan. He said that a liaison staffer mediated the communication between him and the fire fighters.
The dousing mission can now be carried out for lengthy periods basically unattended by using vehicles capable of shooting a large amount of water toward the reactor from a 22-meter height.
The mission at the highly radiation-contaminated plant area is considered essential to cooling down a pool storing spent nuclear fuel, feared to have been boiling. The pool is located inside the building, but water can be shot from outside because the building has suffered damage in what is believed to have been a hydrogen explosion.
If fuel is no longer fully covered by water, which reduces by boiling, it can create the risk of radioactive release.
Hit by a magnitude 9.0 quake and ensuing massive tsunami on March 11, most of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station lost cooling functions, and those reactors and the spent fuel pools located close to their containment vessels are believed to be overheating.
==Kyodo
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Interesting detail buried in a CNN article:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/21/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html
Hmm. I wonder if a pump designed to handle concrete is really the most efficient method of pumping water. On the other hand, the ability to DIRECT the water would be nice. Could be a good idea, wish it'd come sooner.
http://image.made-in-china.com/4f0j00MewTdNDEEUoH/Truck-Mounted-Concrete-Boom-Pump-with-CE.jpg
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6.0 just hit off Japan
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=214998
UK unstoppable inflation comes in at 4.4%. Highest among all developed countries.
http://dawnwires.com/currency-markets/unstoppable-inflation-of-uk-cpi-co...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/creeping-sense-of-oblivion-up-32%25-201103163629/
Ben Bernochio should be applauding the BOJ on this one. Matter of fact Bernochio probably believes 2 Trillion Yen is just a start. Maybe QE3 will involve diluting more U.S. dollars and several trillion more yen. Oh heck, lets make it a hattrick and throw in several trillion more Yuans just for fun!
C'mon gang - Japan was SO last week. We've moved on with huge cell phone deals, Bufett on the prowl, the joyful military intervention in Libya and turning a blind eye to Eurozone issues. We're back to "all good" mode and markets are doing what markets are always supposed to do - go up!
I see a level of confusion here about the difference between "abnormal" and "harmful".
The "normal" level of radiation means the background radiation everyone is exposed to, at any place, at any time. Yes, we all are exposed to radiation, at any place, at any time.
The fact that the level of radiation is "abnormal", meaning it's above the normal background level, doesn't necessarily means that it's at a harmful level.
Take an example different from radiation: magnetic fields. The normal magnetic field we all are exposed all the time is a very tiny magnetic field. If we start to play with some strong neodymium magnets, the level of the magnetic field we will be exposed is thousands of times higher than the normal magnetic field we are exposed in the everyday life. But there are no reports that playing with neodymium magnets is harmful to the human health. A magnetic field thousands of times stronger than the "normal" is not harmful to our health.
Please note that I'm not saying that radiation 1,600 times above the background level is not harmful. I can't tell if it is harmful or not, because I'm not a specialist.
What I'm trying to say is: the fact the level of radiation is 20, 50, or 100 times above the normal background level of everyday life doesn't necessarily means it's in a harmful level. I simply can't tell you what is the level when it becomes harmful to human health, because I simply don't know.
O Rly?
I think it's too late to say 'near' boiling point.
It's 226 degrees.
Fukushima nuclear storage pool near boiling point CTV.ca - 25 minutes ago
If this is the common pool it's a whole new level of Holy Shit. Where is your 226 degrees from? Is it the common pool?
I calculated, strictly on a WAG basis (OK I used a spreadsheet) that the common pool would boil ten days after loss of cooling....posted here last week....
volume 3828 cubic meters Displaced 0.65 water 2488.2 cubic meters weight 2488.2 tonnes energy 8.33248E+11 joules or watt seconds 833248.416 megajoules MW seconds 86400 seconds per day 9.644078889 days to boil 334880 joules per tonne (20 to 100C)Radiation accumulating in soil outside the exclusion zone; gov't says no problem because there is no soil standard (so tidy):
High radiation detected 40km from nuclear plant
Japan's science ministry says radiation exceeding 400 times the normal level was detected in soil about 40 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The ministry surveyed radioactive substances in soil about 5 centimeters below the surface at roadsides on Monday.
The ministry found 43,000 becquerels of radioactive iodine-131 per kilogram of soil, and 4,700 becquerels of radioactive cesium-137 per kilogram about 40 kilometers west-northwest of the plant.
Gunma University Professor Keigo Endo says radiation released by the iodine is 430 times the level normally detected in soil in Japan and that released by the cesium is 47 times the norm.
Endo says the data means that a person staying at the location for one year would be exposed to 4 times the amount of radiation allowed by national standards. The professor says there is no immediate health risk, but that radioactive cesium can accumulate in soil and that radiation levels must continue to be monitored.
The science ministry says there is no environmental standard for radioactive substances in soil, and that it sees no problem at this time.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 19:59 +0900 (JST)
Just an impression, but it seems like the Japanese have been much less aggressive in handling this nuclear disaster than the Russians were with Chernobyl (though it took them a long time to start getting active, whereas the Japanese responded right away). For instance, the Russians were so worried about a pool of radioactive magma descending to the water table and actually hollowed out a space underground below the reactor to catch any magma that would otherwise go straight to the water table. One would imagine that if there is a meltdown in at least one of the reactors where there is a danger of this happening, the Japanese would do the same thing.
I also wonder if Russian consultants who have experience with Chernobyl have been called in for their own evaluation of the situation. That would seem to be a given, but one hears very little about international cooperation in this event--rather strange, given the risk that the Kanto plain could be rendered uninhabitable and all agriculture would have to cease there.
The whole thing has a bad smell to it, almost as if there is some vested interest in a disasterous outcome. Hypothetically, who benefits if the disaster gets out of control?