Fukushima Global Fallout Dispersion Animation Update

Zero Hedge has been updating our readers periodically with Fukushima radiation dispersion maps as they become available. Below we present the latest one out of the French meteorological office, which presents the global nature of the radioactive fallout, which at last check hit a record 500 millisieverts by Reactor 2 and was climbing, which unfortunately means the subsequent dispersion cloud will be even more potent, and so forth, and so forth, until an actual practical resolution, instead of just propaganda, is implemented.

h/t Madame Butcher

Comments

[Jim in MN]

My comment was that they hadn't even looked for uranium and plutonium yet.  The news flow is so bad that it's impossible to conclude anything from this.  Who detected it?  Using what?  Based on what survey plan?  Is someone just driving around 'to check things out' periodically or what?

There are many, many fuel rods at that facility.  There's no reason why the observed neutrons couldn't be from fuel rods.  Of course they would be uncovered rods.  But if some were scattered by the explosions they could provide a source for neutron radiation. 

Could also be the cores or ejected/released core material. 

Overall it shows how far we (or TEPCO or anyone else--you armchair physicists listening?) really are from understanding even the basic facts on the ground. 

[Jim in MN]

Bad to worse: Cesium, not iodine.  Decades, not days.

Extremely high radiation found in soil

Japanese authorities have detected a concentration of a radioactive substance 1,600 times higher than normal in soil at a village, 40 kilometers away from the troubled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

The disaster task force in Fukushima composed of the central and local governments surveyed radioactive substances in soil about 5 centimeters below the surface at 6 locations around the plant from last Friday through Tuesday.

The results announced on Wednesday show that 163,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-137 per kilogram of soil has been detected in Iitate Village, about 40 kilometers northwest of the plant.

Gakushuin University Professor Yasuyuki Muramatsu, an expert on radiation in the environment, says that normal levels of radioactive cesium-137 in soil are around 100 becquerels at most. The professor says he was surprised at the extremely high reading, which is 1,630 times higher than normal levels.

He warns that since radioactive cesium remains in the environment for about 30 years it could affect agricultural products for a long time. He is calling on the government to collect detailed data and come up with ways to deal with the situation.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 19:02 +0900 (JST)

[WTFisThat]

This is just getting better and better, why the Jap guberment is waiting for? Start preparing for a mega evac NOW, don't seat and wait for the new developments, no more meetings! I'm not a expert but I clearly remember Chernobyl and the radiation that hit Europe thousand miles away. You run or cancer will get you. As for the guberment, start building walls around your neutron gun, pay good and send kamikazes NOW, also pray that the engineering was done correctly on those reactors.

[Jim in MN]

Photos of control rooms released

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_37.html

[TheMerryPrankster]

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Neutron beam observed 13 times Kyodo News

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

 

Tepco said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 km southwest of the plant's Nos. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour. This is not a dangerous level of radiation, it added.

The utility said it will also measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam.

In the 1999 criticality accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, uranium broke apart continually in nuclear fission, causing a massive amount of neutron beams.

In the latest case at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, a criticality accident has yet to happen.

But the measured neutron beam may be evidence that uranium and plutonium leaked from the plant's nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuel have discharged a small amount of neutron beams via fission.

---- I'm not a nuclear scientist, but doesn't a neutron beam imply criticality, since fission is the only way to produce a neutron beam and criticality literally means a fission reaction.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110324a6.html

[Hubbs]

To the children of Japan who will inherit this mess, a moving tribute to those who  suffered from the previous nuclear storms..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmD-QpyYdhk

[TruthInSunshine]

It's all fun and games until radiation that lasts longer than anyone will live and that can not be eliminated makes it into your water supply, drinking/potable and otherwise.

A basic understanding of how water travels intraground and how far it travels would scare the living daylights into anyone who drinks, cooks with, bathes with or produces with (businesses) water.

From 'Michael Clayton', quoting the brilliant attorney Arthur Edens, on UNorth's product:

Well, this is a long way of saying that you don't even have to leave your house to be killed... it will be piped it into your kitchen sink. That it is tasteless and colorless, it has the potential to mask and intensify potentially lethal exposures. Now, I love this. It is a superb cancer delivery system.

[Bicycle Repairman]

Right.  Radiation causes cancer.  Well everyone knows that susceptibility to cancer is genetic.  And I have a feeling that the Japanese are very susceptible.

LOL.

[TruthInSunshine]

Genetics influences susceptibility to contracting cancer, but it's a mere part of the equation.

I'm not sure I understand your claim.

Are you claiming that radiation does not cause cancer?

[Bicycle Repairman]

"Are you claiming that radiation does not cause cancer?"

No, and further if we measure the influence of genetics versus the environment, I believe environment is the overwhelming factor.  The genetics argument is raised by those responsible for fouling the environment.  IMHO.

[the not so migh...]

extinction events = bullish

[Jim in MN]

There once was a country named Nippon

Whose radwaste they couldn't quite grip on

The bosses all lied

And the mommies all cried

But it's news turds can buy the damn dip on

[fuu]

<golf clap><cry>

[franzpick]

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[Lapri]

ALERT! ALERT!

Nuclear Safety Committee chairman: Reactor 1 extremely dangerous, probably a meltdown, may take measures to prevent the destruction of the Reactor Pressure Vessel:

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-government.html

[TruthInSunshine]

Thank you.

So, it is getting much worse. And it's a Japanese paper that reports it. Go figure.

From the article:

Yomiuri Shinbun 1:21AM JST 3/24/2011

Asked about the damage to the Reactors at Fukushima I Plant, the chairman said, "the fuel rods in the Reactor No.1 are assumed to have melted to a significant degree. Compared to the Reactors No.2 and 3, the situation in the Reactor No.1 is the most severe." The temperature and the pressure of the reactor core continue to rise abnormally, and the situation is getting very dangerous. He disclosed "We are considering releasing the valve to let the steam out of the Reactor Pressure Vessel in order to prevent the destruction."

[franzpick]

Thanks...Ordering my radiation patches now.

[Lapri]

And this:

#Japan's Nuclear Safety Committee Chairman: #Radioactive Fallout May Be Severe Enough to Cause Internal Radiation Exposure in Some Locations

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6...

CERN LHC back up and running, cluster flock of black swans sighted shortly thereafter.

[franzpick]

Looks like we have not only the jetstream to worry about, but get this, the tuna stream. I'll double my tuna/salmon supply (again), after seeing that Pacific blue-fin swim from Honshu south to spawn, then juveniles swim all the way to SoCal - Baja. What goes around comes around.

See maps here:  http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/t1817e/t1817e13.htm

Ogawa and Ishida (1989a and 1989b) reported that peak catches of adult northern bluefin occur off northeastern Honshu during May-July and peak catches of juvenile bluefin occur in the same area during June-August and October–December.

The spawning of northern bluefin occurs between Japan and the Philippines in April, May, and June, off southern Honshu in July, and in the Sea of Japan in August.  Fish of age 0 about 15 to 60 cm in length are caught in the vicinity of Japan during the summer, fall, and winter of their first year of life.  Some of these remain in the western Pacific Ocean and others depart for the eastern Pacific during the fall or winter of their first year of life or the summer, fall, or winter of their second year of life.  The journey from the western to the eastern Pacific takes as little as 7 months, or perhaps even less.  It is possible that other fish migrate from the western to the eastern Pacific later in life, but there is no information concerning this because few tagged fish greater than about 1 year of age have been released in the western Pacific.

Maybe the concept of healthy "blue-water", "wild-caught" fish should be reconsidered.

[thetruthhurtsthefed]

is it coincidence that Latin America is not affected by the cloud (directly) and that most previous leaders of nations (ie the Bush family) are residing there and purchased large plots of land.  hmmmmmm.  Also, certain Latin American country's GDP is soring as well -me thinks a scheme is in place

[philosopherarns]

They have water rights interest in south America I believe.