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Gamma Radiation In Fukushima-Downwind Ibaraki Disclosed, 30 Times Above Normal
For all who have been looking for realtime radiation data from Japan, you are in luck. Or maybe not, as the data unfortunately indicates nothing good. The System for Prediction of Environment Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI) releases gamma radiation data online. The site is jittery and apparently not suited for major traffic which is why we represent several screen captures of the data. While it is not surprising that according to the website both Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures are entirely "Under Survey" as it makes sense that the government does not want to generate panic, SPEEDI has disclosed some tell-tale data about cities in Ibaraki prefecture, which is just a hundred or so miles north of Tokyo, and is just south of the ill-fated Fukushima prefecture. And the data is stunning: based on a N, NE and NNE wind direction (where it originates), meaning all coming from Fukushima, with a normal reading in the 80 nGy/h range, the city of Kounosu Naka is at 3,024, Kadobe Naka is at 2,416, Isobe Hitachioota is at 1,213 and many others are in the mid to upper triple digit range! Again, this is based on wind coming out of Fukushima and ultimately headed toward the capital. Indicatively, normal terrestrial plus cosmic gamma radiation is about 80 nGy/h.
Below we present screencaptures as of moments ago, as apparently the Japanese government seems to believe that abnormal gamma radiation levels are perfectly notmal:
A map of all prefectures, showing maximum gamma radation readings. Note Ibaraki at 3,024 nGy/h, and Kanagawa right below it (and downwind) at 224 nGy/h compared to low double digts for all other prefecture.
Not surprisingly, Fukushima is completely N/A, as every single reading is Under Survey, also known as censored.
But the stunner is Ibaraki. We will let this one speak for itself:
As a reference, based on background radiation measurements in the lower atmosphere at
different altitudes above sea level up to 1100 m and over the land were
made at a temperate latitude (40°) in the Thessaloniki region, North
Greece, before and after the Chernobyl accident (26 April 1986), using a
portable γ-ray scintillation detector and a Cutie-pie survey
meter with an ionization chamber, the average value of the total
background radiation at ground level was 87 nGy h-1 (10.0 μR h-1, 25 cps), i.e. 60% from terrestrial radiation, 55 nGy h-1 (6.3 μR h-1, 15 cps) and 40% from cosmic radiation, 32 nGy h-1 (3.7 μR h-1,
10 cps), before the Chernobyl accident, while, after it, the total
background radiation was doubled, due to the long-lived radioactive
fallout suspended in the atmosphere and or deposited onto the ground.
h/t Jon
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Not to say their data is misleading at all, but in case you do not know, they are a lobby group for the industry.
Amid growing alarm about problems at three stricken nuclear reactors, France on Monday became the first country to advise its nationals to leave Tokyo. In a notice on its website, the French embassy also cited a warning from Japan’s meteorological agency about a possible large aftershock in the Kanto region around Tokyo, following Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated the north-east of Japan.
“The probability of such an event in the next three days is 70 per cent, and 50 per cent in the two days following,” the embassy said.
“Based on the above stated risk of probably a severe earthquake, as well as the uncertainty of the nuclear issue, it seems reasonable to recommend to people who do not have to stay in the Tokyo and Kanto area [that] they should not do so ... We strongly advise French nationals to postpone any travels planned to Japan.”
France’s move highlighted growing concerns among embassies about the safety of nationals.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50c822ae-4e45-11e0-a9fa-00144feab49a.html#axzz...State dept has had an alert out since the 13th
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_5382.html
Do the Japanese have circuit breakers on the Nikkei or were they also affected by the tsunami?
HFT'S are SELLING...ALL BONDS UP! CHINA! YEN CROSS UP!
Realtime winds in Japan, for windsurfers or websurfers
http://www.windfinder.com/windreports/windkarte_japan.htm
Predominantly On-shore towards Tokyo.
Interesting to know if the winds shift On/Off shore during daily cycles.
Nikkei down 12.5%, it's game over, game over man.
At least it's a dry heat.
Link?
Yeah.
This shit just got real real.
100,000,000 people on the move.
On an Island?
Asahi Glass Co Ltd, up 4.5%...LOL. Somebody has a wicked sense of humor.
And our idiot child President is working on his golf game...
Now she's taking about neutering males via radiation.
Guess they do not play by the CNBC playbook.
They have all but admitted now that there is serious radiation exposure.
As I said earlier.
This is now somewhere between Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
However it has the possibility to exceed Chernobyl.
They are beginning to talk about the extent of the contamination.
"If you have any laundry outside don't take it indoors"
"If you are at work say inside"
"If possible stay in a concrete building"
What say you trav7777.
You sociopath piece of scum.
http://www.livestation.com/channels/123-nhk-world-english
you do realize you've botched Wellington's name, right?
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
He's taking at his own pace, as are a lot folks. What are you doing right now that is any fucking different than what you are accusing him of, Lord? So Noble, your conduct.
People are injured, long before this thing blew.
Believe it or not, I wish you the best as you find your own way.
Find peace.
huh? Days ago when we had bldg explosions I said this was worse already than TMI. JFC, try to keep up.
At the FIRST venting of radioactive steam, the situation reached the severity of TMI. TMI was a big nothingburger.
All I ever did was tell you idiots to NOT PANIC and stop the fucking hysterics and watch the dosimeters and the live feeds.
At every point, I highlighted that primary containment breach was a worst-case outcome and to watch dosimeters to ascertain whether or not such an eventuality had occurred.
For this to reach Chernobyl, there will need to be some kind of explosion or fire which liberates core elements. That is STILL a possible, but less probable outcome.
March 2009 Nikkie was @ 7100
Bid Ask spread just went crazy on the june futures NKD
400 Millisieverts reading now @ the fukushima plant area !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The average American is exposed each year to about 3 millisieverts
They are talking about a fire in reactor 4, but 4 was out of operation at time of quake, no fuel in reactor, sounds like a fire in the spent fuel pool...? Am I getting this right? The people providingng the info are either having trouble reading the notes, or maybe freaked out by the news they are reading.
Or maybe it's like, a fire.
Just fire, I hear you, I am referring to what the translators were saying, they were talking about the fuel in the pool, that the pool needs water, they need to put water on it. Since I do not speak Japanese, I am relying on the stamering translators.
Ah, they just said the fire is result of a hydrogen blast, from spent nuclear fuel in reactor, which was not operating. WFT???
Erm...that IS news. You got linkage?
My understanding on unit 4 was there was fuel in the reactor, but it had cooled below 100C (cold shutdown). No idea what might be burning, it could be spent fuel, if it is relatively new in the pool and became uncovered. Impossible to say at this point, though.
There are normal everyday combustibles in and around those buildings.
Exactly. Therefore my comment "impossible to know at this point."
they could have been trying to restore power at Unit 4 and something went wrong...doesn't give a lot of confidence that they are not out of control now...someone on cnbc world is reporting spent fuel is burning...not clear who said it or what unit. Just fuck. Futures cratering....
No.4 reactor building is on fire.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-press-conference-reactor-no4-is....
"That's the reactor who had been shut down for maintenance when the earthquake hit, and was supposed to be totally "cold"."
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Sounds like some high up members are ready to depart Democratic Party of Japan
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
You are Sociopathic Scum
He's rude. And for all I know he may be a nuclear power industry shill, given his penchant for leaping down the throat of anyone who questions his peak-oil hysteria.
But all he was doing was telling people to not over-react to the news that had been released up until that time. Is that so sociopathic?
You got it BigJim. Good handle for you.
BigJim
Get your head out of your arse and have a good look around.
not a shill...wish I could get paid.
Were I getting paid, I would not have acknowledged even the possibility of catastrophe.
Secondly, you think *I* am hysterical about PO? Compared to what you've seen here, really?? I have repeatedly denied any kind of TSHTF or TEOTW outcome from it.
These idiots are stupid not to close their market. By the time I wake up nik at 6000. Btfd
At what point does the man in the blue jumpsuit lose it and look directly into the camera and yell "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! JUST RUN, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN!"
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
You are Sociopathic Scum
We really don't need this ...
Now I need to stop, but yeah.
Why.
He is scum.
His entire modus was to suppress truth.
He is Sociopathic Scum.
I see you carry 7777 as well.
Good luck explaining that to your family.
I see you carry 7777 as well.
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No pilot training in your background huh?
So the meaning of "Ident 7777" on an aircraft transponder will go right over your head ...
They have switched from microsieverts to millisieverts in some reports.
Whuu
Was the trading stoped? 8,999.73 -620.76 ( - 6.45%)
Wondering the same thing. Been stuck there for a good 15 min.
Live here http://www.sgxniftydowfutureslive.com/index_files/DOWFUTURES.htm
14.6% Down...
CNBS2...thought I caught Nikkei futures stopped.
This is meltdown
400 Millseverts at No 3.
@ trav7777
You are Sociopathic Scum
where are you getting this data? Thx.
It's happening live.
http://www.livestation.com/channels/123-nhk-world-english
Paraphrasing.
"Get indoors.
Throw all the cloths you are wearing out side.
Close all windows.
Get into a concrete building."
Get the picture?
Thanks.
We are all gonna die.
Prepare yourself for growing a 2nd head.
You will now have to eat for two.
"We are all gonna die."
No we are not.
But a lot of Japanese people will.
Well, I could use more brain power, does the second head come with a second brain?
Yes, otherwise it'd be an airhead.
You flatter yourself.
Nikkei down over 13%. They should just stop it trading. Wealth of Japanese destroyed overnight.
"Wealth of Japanese destroyed overnight"
Wealth (or debt) of America to follow.
http://www.danteinferno.info/gates-of-hell.jpg
For those interested in donating to help the Japanese here's a link for contributions to the Tzu-Chi Foundation from naturalnews.com:
http://www.us.tzuchi.org/usa/home.nsf/other/donateCharity
http://www.NaturalNews.com/031685_tsunami_emergency_aid.html
I wonder if Ben could print enough money to cleanup the disaster happening over there now.
I wouldn't doubt it. But Ben has other plans for our money.
it's lunch break there, lets wait till they eat some sushi and see after.
Nikkei down 16% now. Devastating to say the least.
Chernobyl contamination of agricultural land:
http://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/chernobyl/c06.html
"The releases during the Chernobyl accident contaminated about 125 000 km2 of land in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia with radiocaesium levels greater than 37 kBq/m2, and about 30 000 km2 with radiostrontium greater than 10 kBq/m2. About 52 000 km2 of this total were in agricultural use; the remainder was forest, water bodies and urban centres (Ri95).
Since July 1986, the dose rate from external irradiation in some areas has decreased by a factor of forty, and in some places, it is less than 1% of its original value. Nevertheless, soil contamination with 137Cs, 90Sr and 239Pu is still high and in Belarus, the most widely contaminated Republic, eight years after the accident 2 640 km2 of agricultural land had been excluded from use (Be94). Within a 40-km radius of the power plant, 2 100 km2 of land in the Poles'e state nature reserve have been excluded from use for an indefinite duration.
However, it is not possible to predict the rate of reduction as this is dependent on so many variable factors, so that restrictions on the use of land are still necessary in the more contaminated regions in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. In these areas, no lifting of restrictions is likely in the foreseeable future."
Area of the Kanto Plan, Japan: 17,000 square kilometers. This area supplies 15% of Japan's rice and 40-60% of several vegetable crops. It is the largest arable and urban area in Japan, a nation no bigger than Montana.
http://rdgs.dk/djg/pdfs/109/2/Pp_147-159_109_2.pdf
A significant impact to the Kanto Plain is an existential threat to Japan.
Where is the plan to entomb these facilities? Can someone ask President Obama about it?
The odds may still be low but they are clearly rising. Nothing pisses me off more than obvious failures of contingency planning when the stakes are high.
"Nothing pisses me off more than obvious failures of contingency planning when the stakes are high."
No offence Jim.
What makes you think that Obama or any other scum politician gives a damn about "contingency planning"?
The only thing that scum thinks about is career.
Just like bankers.
Just like media talking heads.
They don't give a damn about anybody else.
And that includes their own families.
I can still be pissed off about it. And try to do something about it.
It is time to get focused on exactly one thing (besides getting the information analyzed and snarky comments):
ENTOMBMENT.
These assholes have been way behind. They need to get ahead of this thing. Entombment is the way to do it.
All forces and resources in the world should be trained on this.
radiation from chernobyl went all around the world.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html
http://chernobyl486.tripod.com/
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
@ trav7777
You are Sociopathic Scum
So.... how do you really, really feel about Mr. Trav?
I would have to admit I find you a lot more attractive.
As much as I despise trav777 for being a half-wit neo-nazi, I haven't seen anything he's posted on this subject that deserves this response from you. Stop being lazy and think up something at least funny. Go through his previous comments if you have to. This isn't yahoo.
theopco
Why don't you go through my responses to him.
Assuming you have the time.
He is scum.
I'm not contesting that. I just don't like the cut and paste spam approach. Aesthetically, and practically. You're the one who looks bad at this point by lowering the normative level of conversation below even him.
Just sayin.
Shit now 4 is on fire, and it wasn't even operating before the quake. Spent fuel. If they have an ounce of sense, they will beg the US and anybody else in range to start airlifting in cement, stat.
Shit now 4 is on fire, and it wasn't even operating before the quake.
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Was the Uranium fuel told to stand down? That could be the core of the issue ... (nature doesn't listen)
I had a question of the table earlier on this today, and it rated only one or two comment.
.
And tonight's episode of The EVENT (NBC Monday's~yes I have too many TVs going) part of the plot involves nuclear reactors and using them to create portals and the last time the protagonist did this, Chernobyl went ape-shit..
Seriously!?
Oh, and No. 4 Reactor is on fire.
Clearly now, everyone can see why the criminal syndicate known as Wall Street was buying the crap out of the dip during the second half of today's US session....'cause cesium 137...soon to be followed by plutonium...is fucking bullish!
OK...so prayers for the folk in Japan...and prosecutions on Wall Street. K?
We are drowning in our own plague of immorality. Market credibility is already at zero...but is now apparently shooting for negative status.
Buy VXX trav!
On a long enough timeline the credibility of Wall Street drops to ZERO.
+9.0M
Can't wait to see the fed-backed BTFD crowd head out of their neighborhood for a try at the very old and often fatal Japanese game of 'catch the falling sword'.
naw, if I am going short I will go with balls...put options.
I actually do own some Toshiba Plant Systems because of their acquisition of Westinghouse which was a minority partner in PBMR. Surely this has taken a complete shit but I was up like 50% on it lol.
Other than that, my coal stuff was up bonzer today, and the rest is oil and pipeline MLPs.
I concur that govts will buy futures; they really have no other choice. If we get another '08, the show will stop totally.
One of my best friends is a jap and I had to call him last night just to make sure...this is a royal shitshow. The part for this that has to be hard is that chernobyl and TMI were incompetence related; Japan got an Act of God.
It isn't nice to tempt Mother Nature by building on a fault line. Some you call that incompetence, others arrogance. Nothing has changed since the Tower of Babel.
well, for one thing our engineering has gotten a lot better
@theopco
Has it? The Tower of Babel is a cautionary tale about man's arrogance and pride, which is the point of my analogy. However, if you want to talk engineering, the analogy is not fitting. The Tower of Babel was not completed, so it did not structurally fail. Fukushima is a structural failure to withstand a foreseeable risk, i.e. major earthquake and corresponding tsunami. I wouldn't be touting our modern engineering marvels at a time such as this.
dude...the entire nation is a "fault line."
the epicenter was 100km offshore...wth do you expect out of them?
This was an Act of God that hit a 40-year old reactor complex.
Oh, you're right, then it would be OK to build a nuclear plant anywhere on the three big islands. What was I thinking.
Based on what I heard, it was only the fifth largest quake in Japan's history. However, the Japanese have been very proud of their efforts at land reclamation from the sea. Not looking so good now.
Oh, you're right, then it would be OK to build a nuclear plant anywhere on the three big islands. What was I thinking.
Based on what I heard, it was only the fifth largest quake in Japan's history. However, the Japanese have been very proud of their efforts at land reclamation from the sea. Not looking so good now.
Real market mayhem tonight!
BreakingNews :Radiation measured at 400 times annual legal limit near No. 3 Fukushima reactor - Kyodo
That Yen Cross action had to be CB activity, WOW!!
Cdad
"We are drowning in our own plague of immorality."
"We" are not.
We are drowning in a plague of their immorality.
Get that straight before you move on.
Objection; assumes they are immoral with little or no presented evidence ...
(One man's morality may be another's immorality)
More shit from a 7777
No pilot training in your background huh?
"Ident 7777" refers to the transponder code an aircraft 'transponds' for emergencies ...
This probably went right over your head, didn't it?
BTW, it has been noted you have lost any sense of civility, my Lord.
@Ident7777
What kind of a fucking twat response is this? Are you shitting me? That's right, there are no right or wrong issues...just you and me being seperately ok? How fucking stupid are you to say something like this?
As for evidence...if you need evidence that American bankers are immoral, then I would see a doctor about the large knot on your head.
In your world of perfect moral relativism, morality has no meaning. For the rest of us, there are standards that most of us generally agree to. Most of us can agree when they've been violated. I think it's reasonable to presume that is the case here.
MSNBC reporting: "Second Worst Nuclear Disaster".
Nikkei reporting "Kan: High Risk Of Elevated Levels Of Radiation From Stricken Nuclear Plant"
Kaaaannn!!!
... soon to become worst !
All 4 cores are in serious jeopardy ...
If one goes, they ALL go.
a few days before the earthquake, a huge number of sardines washed ashore at Redondo beach. An article today explains the same phenomona is occuring in Mexico
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1365538/Japan-earthquake-Swarms-fish-coast-Acapulco-caused-tsunami.html
gold took a shit, silver...dollar not strong.
Expect intervention by the gov'ts shortly
You are sociopathic scum.
the market is selling on the 'particle fear' that these reactors are throwing up into the atmosphere...not so much a radiation leak.
apparently these reactors have a plutonium that is extremely toxic.
some greenpeace dude was talkin about it...
N225 going to 7%
CHF up USD spiked, Oil up
nikkei is down 1100??
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/futures/
Just remember politicians and Wall Street motto: never let a crisis, and this is a BIG one, go to waste !
....QE3 on the way which will bring AGAIN enormous wealth transfer from main st. to the filthy rick !! ...and Oduma's golf game is improving.
ummm...
1 nano-Gray (nGy) = 10 to the minus 9 Grays (10E-9 Gy)
(3817 nGy/h)(10E-9 Gy/nGy)(100 Rem/1 Gy)(1000 mRem/1 Rem) = 0.3817 mRem/h
we can break this down more
(0.3817 mRem/h)(24 h/day)(365 day/yr)(1 Rem/1000 mRem) = 3.82 Rem/yr
normal exposure limit is 5 rem/yr
This is hardly an alarming figure.
Dup
They have gone to "Disaster Prevention Radio".
Looks like Japan is going done the toilet.
No information from Central or Local Government.
They are at the ante chamber to hell.
Good, Wormwood, good.
lolz
7600
Wake up fool.
"Do not use air conditioning"
"Do not put laundry outside"
Excellent, Wormwood, excellent.
Maintain a high state of anxiety ...
Eh.
That's not from me.
It's from Japanese State Television.
It's all figured in!
It is time to get focused on exactly one thing (besides getting the information analyzed and snarky comments):
ENTOMBMENT.
These assholes have been way behind. They need to get ahead of this thing. Entombment is the way to do it.
All forces and resources in the world should be trained on this.
Dear Media Reps: Ask for Super New Entombment by name. --thx
Dear President Obama: Please land several divisions with aid, and entomb these reactors for our dear friends the Japanese if they are lacking in capability. --thx
Well, it's confirmed that there are large radiation leaks significant enough to impact human health, and this is from the Japanese Government.
Unlike before, they have not specified a number of radioactive material in the discharge or air, and there are some very nervous scientists on media channels all uniformly saying that the it's a foregone conclusion that the numbers have to be very high for the government to make that statement, and to advise anyone within 50km who has not evacuated to seal themselves in their dwelling.
Also, the Chinese Government is advising residents of their coast to take precautions by running A/C systems if they have them and via other methods (? I don't understand this, yet, unless there's A LOT more we haven't been told), and Chinese & Filipinos are stripping shelves bare of iodine products in stores, although there is no video, yet, of the reported panic.
BREAKING NEWS: Small amounts of radioactive substances detected in Tokyo
As per kyodo
Where is the fucking concrete! Good grief! Are they going to sit there pumping water with fire trucks on to the smoking ruins pretending they are controlling the situation?
WTF is wrong with these folk? BURY THE FUCKERS...and HURRY!
Live realtime Geiger counter in Tokyo
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF
Moving up Quick !!!
Oh boy... I just saw a gray swan...
Probably just dirty...
Just saw on the local news that an American that was working at the power plant is expected to return home tomorrow.
"Don't get caught in the rain"
"Stay indoors"
"We cannot go out ourselves" That's the disaster management team.
"I am in the PR section and the disaster section is in a different building"
"In my section we have no information from the Government or TEPCO"
"They have their windows shut already so it makes it difficult to hear what the PR cars are saying"
http://www.livestation.com/channels/123-nhk-world-english
Yeah trav7777.
Everything is just peachy.
Scum
Just heard on NHK Iodine & Cesium isotopes detected in Tokyo but "No immediate impact to people's health".
Oh my. I'd be taking that KI now were I in Tokyo.
With all the other options out there and those that are being suppressed by some other types of energy providers, we need to carefully choose our forms of energy sources. This just goes to shows that the risks are still very great-- especially when natural disasters will become more frequent.
Here are the recent readings at Hitachinaka City.
-- 440 nanoGrays/hour - 10:30 local time on the 6th of April
-- 464 nGy/h - 10:00 PM local time on the 5th
-- 463 nGy/h - 9:00 PM local time on the 4th
-- 480 nGy/h - 9:00 PM local time on the 3rd
-- 499 nGy/h - 9:40 PM local time on the 2nd
-- 536 nGy/h - 5:10 AM local time on the 1st of April
-- 556 nGy/h - 9:40 AM local time on the 31st
-- 575 nGy/h - 11:00 PM local time on the 30th
-- 597 nGy/h - 4:40 AM local time on the 29th
-- 646 nGy/h - 6:50 PM local time on the 28th
-- 684 nGy/h - 10:20 PM local time on the 27th
This monitor is the single higher reading in Japan. Most monitors in the Ibaraka area are reading from 87-250.