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Highway To The Fukushima Zone: First Person Trek Through A Radioactive Wasteland
An intrepid Japanese duo has decided to do the reverse Fukushima commute and in a stunning filmed expose, drives through cracked roads, herds of animals in city streets and ghost towns to measure the radiation from 30 km out to 1.5 km away from Fukushima, where it hits 112 microsieverts, or roughly 350 times normal radiation. But don't worry. Everything is still under the recently updgraded (twice) legal limit.... for those clad in lead armor.
h/t Sudden Debt
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hear hear.
Nice find, Sudden Debt.
Anyone monitoring out in the Kuroshio. Just a matter of time folks.....
and he didnt even put it on the ground when the radioactive dust probably accumulated.
Brave souls. Prives what has long been obvious (toall but a few die-hards) that this is the GOM playing out on the nuclear on every front of obfuscation, save the company, save the giovernment hoopla.
The animal bit is interesting. How do birds that fly through and crawlers that survive and slither away and cockroaches that were radited and fishes that swam away and laid eggs.... the whole animal migration as vectors (it's all connected, we all know that)... can the spread via th eanimal kingdom be neglected?
All in all, this is cearly delaying the obvious with no regard for human life.
I got an e-mail from my friend in Tokyo this morning, here it is for your consumption...
"Dear V,
Long time no see and I hope you are doing well. How are you??
Now, the situation is very very serious here because of that earthquake and nuclear fear. The correspondence for nuclear by govern is very bad and it's going worse and worse...
But I am fine and there are not big changing around me, Tokyo.(It looks so.)
Please tell me your situation. N What do you say, or do? We're in the rabbit hole now. All of us.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/straykitty-says-it-and-i-raise-it-with-the-rabbit-hole/
Brave indeed
I get the sense they're getting edgy, but I can't believe how everything in Tokyo appears to be ticking along as usual for the most part, but I could be wrong on that.
It takes time for those detectors to integrate properly, so the readings you take on the move are usually wrong.
Standing still for several minutes is usually required but it drops as the rate increases. I figure the real numbers may be a bit higher than they saw.
D.
It takes time for those detectors to integrate properly, so the readings you take on the move are usually wrong.
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But, the meters continually being exposed to the same 'source' (widespread contamination across the area); it isn't so much like Rayleigh Fading (in an RF environment) where waves can cancel; find a null and it can be 20 - 30 dB a factor of x100 to x1000 deep but only peaks at about 6 dB - x4 higher due to wave reinforcement) ...
If anything they are getting a better 'average' measurement when moving.
IM TAKING A RIDE WITH MY BEST FRIEND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbatS1sDAmQ
They just need the opening of Fallout 3 the video game to top this off...
banzai7 had a twitter with this video footage up yesterday, just sayin!
first i learned that the japanese drive on the other side of the road like in england. i took out a tire once driving in england, on a fucking roundabout. real bummer, rental car.
the inhabitants of Ramsar in Iran receive from natural background radiation a yearly dose of 260millisievert, which is the equivalent of 30 microsievert/hour. for all of their life. they not only dont show any sign of decreased life expectancy, there have been studies showing that cancer rate in the population is 50% lower than average.
you are free to believe what you want but 100 microsievert hour is a very modest level of radiation and even living there all of your life you are not going to see any decrease of life expectancy.
smoking, drinking, or bbq meat on the other side...
gm
Can I offer your children a couple hits of strontium?
Shit's harmless.
Tell these children http://tinyurl.com/3f4z3ad how harmless all this radiation is.
No difference than Iran. In fact, it actually aids in life expectancy.
so the radiation that comes from granite is exactly the same as the stuff coming out of a nuclear power plant that has exploded?
out of a nuclear power plant that has exploded?
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Chernobyl?
actually, no, you shitheaded asswipe. you can leave now. obviously, the person meant fukushima. you are sick, man. go heal, ok?
dupe
They just need the opening of Fallout 3 the video game to top this off...
Nifty little radioctivity counter. Small enough to strap right up next to your gonads.
I was expecting a zombie or two to emerge from a ditch at any time - scary stuff but whatever you do don't eat the popcorn.
WTF?
"One person has been killed and a second suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting on board a Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine, police said.
Officers arrested a man after the incident on HMS Astute, which is currently docked in Southampton.
Hampshire Police said the incident was not terror-related and there was no risk to the public.
Police and the Ministry of Defence would not comment on reports that the person who died in the shooting was a Royal Navy officer.
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/one-dead-in-nuclear-sub-shooting-15140008.html#ixzz1IwX7bAz2
Strange:
A Royal Navy serviceman has been arrested over a shooting on board a nuclear-powered submarine which left one of his colleagues dead and a second with life-threatening injuries.
Local civic dignitaries, including the mayor and council leader were visiting HMS Astute, which is currently docked in Southampton, at the time of the incident.
It was the cook.
It's always the cook.
Ala Red October.
The dog was checking to see if his buddy still had his nut sack or if it fell off from the radiation.
Amazing video......we finally get to see what the markets don't want to see.
I think I saw zombies !
You know what's really interesting? The cloudsourced geiger counter map at http://japan.failedrobot.com/ has readings in it that are not reported in the official sources. But they are official monitors. I was looking at the ones in broader Fukushima Prefecture yesterday. But then after the big aftershock I zoomed in on Onagawa plant (to the north). You can actually find the plant location by the yellow monitor sites around it. If you zoom waaaaay in and put in on 'satellite' rather than map you can actually see the plant.
Now. Do that for the Fukushima Daiichi site. Now click on the little circles. Those are actual monitor feeds from TEPCO. The 'main control building' reading at 650 microsiverts/hour (they show the annualized dose at 5.7 sieverts for those keeping score--not nice to get one full sievert even) is another indicator of how dangerous it is at the site.
Thanks Jim!
And even here, another WTF emerges.
No monitor near or at Daini plant.
No worries; the news crew in the video made a trek to the outskirts of the Daini plant and took a reading .. don't recall offhand what it was though ...
BTW, I posted the failedrobot link further up in this thread; thanks for the link.
You can see the zombies too, but only if you have a quad core processor and a smoking video card.
So basically proff postive things are way worse than are being reported by both TEPCO and the MSM. Could someone please check the rest of the reported troubled plants in similar fashion and post the results?! Thanks in advance.
Anyone use Jim's method yet to double check readings at all the troubled sites? I'm at work and cannot do it at this time. Thanks
You can see a bit of a cluster around Tokai. Nothing like Fukushima Daiichi. But a definite gradient within the Hitachinaka city area. That one took a few days to get under control after the 'event'. They had pump and generator failures but the story is they never lost the whole thing...but it wasn't called 'safely cooled down' for quite a while. That unit is a 1970s vintage, the first 1000 MW+ size unit in Japan. TEPCO has majority stake in the owner, Japan Atomic Power Co.
Daini is a mystery, their only monitor is well north of the plant and is probably recording Daiichi radiation, or I sure hope it is because it's pretty hot.
The Onagawa readings are similar to the Tokai readings. A gradient but at a very low level.
In the far north the readings are even lower, but there is an interesting little bump in the past 12 hours on all the monitors, except the ones missing data for that period. Quite a different pattern. But at the microsievert level who knows.
Thank you Jim.
I think you discovered a way to continuously check the real, or as close to, the real levels as possible. Basically the continuously smoking guns.
Superb find that should be passed around.
Highway To The Fukushima Zone
Is this from the soundtrack to "TOP SHOGUN"?? :-P
is there a link to the video.. I can't see it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHWvbisFg0I&feature=player_embedded
The Green Mile...
What the hell would we do without ZH?
Tyler - thanks a million - you are truly amazing!
It looks like the flag on the fender has the videonews.com logo on it. I can't make out the reflected kanji on the dash-mounted sign (facing outward).
Here's a couple of screen captures - nearly the best image I could find in the video for doing so:
Dashboard kanji
http://oi51.tinypic.com/28s3eko.jpg
Enlarged
http://oi54.tinypic.com/ilahwg.jpg
Enlarged with enhanced contrast:
http://oi52.tinypic.com/2rrbhts.jpg
Wasteland what a shame and eerily quiet.. they don't have 500k Soldiers and Draftees to fix.?
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110408f3.html
Urayasu still dealing with liquefaction
Streets, water lines and sewers far from back to prequake levelsArticle about major damage right in Tokyo Bay, in the landfilled areas. Also mentions 'no tourists coming to Tokyo Disneyland'.
Thnx for all your comments Jim.
Disney has been closed indefinitely for lack of power and will announce any re-opening 5 days in advance. But how can the lost power be restored ?
Here's a video related to the liquefaction theme and a view of the actual quake I thought was fascinating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP6nygXi1Tc
For those in a hurry it's a 3 minute video taken as the earthquake was happening and it shows cracks forming and subsequenlty "breathing"...opening and closing slowly. It shows water oozing rapidly to the surface over fairly wide areas and in a couple limited cases actually bursting out of the ground forming a little field of fountains a few inches high.
+1000 that is so cool to have been captured on video ...
More:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJ-yOvtjbs
At 7:20 video of smoke and flame from oil refineries in the distance ...
surreal
nuke mltdown now for bonds.. the mltdown. the printing press melted through the containment vessel or something, 5000 degrees.
lol! i thought you'd written "milt-down"! now slewie gets to pen the word! Hah! guess you saw arnie's stuff about reactorZ 1-4 reaching 5000 degrees C. and the "volatilizing" of the cores and spent fuel. this fuk-ing place left chernobyl in the rearview on day 1, brother virg!
the bonds are looking pretty soft, indeed, but still with that "orderly" 118 handle. i don't think the PPT will want to act, right now----leave the pressure on the congo to get a nice new ceiling. then! prob the massive douchebag of PPT $ buying...
OK, another big find...the French ocean and atmospheric dispersion and deposition modeling requested by the IAEA.
http://sirocco.omp.obs-mip.fr/outils/Symphonie/Produits/Japan/SymphoniePreviJapan.htm
They caution us to read their methodology carefully. It basically says that they have no information on the radioactivity of released material, and are simply applying a dispersion/dilution factor to an arbitrary starting point. In other words the IAEA or whoever needs to 'insert' a source term in and then the color coding would be scaled to the original level of contamination.
Still, it's the first ocean modeling available.
@Jim, Ari, Truth, AD, Tom, et al
Can we please clear up how many people are working at Fukushima Dai-ichi at present? Is it 7 or 50 or 300?
Ari said 300, but that they're running skeleton crews at night as far as actual work near the reactors with as few as 7 workers, IIRC.
There are 7 Roentgens, 50 Sieverts, and 300 Becquerels working round the clock
Here's the .pdf Areva report on Fukushima Daiichi that Gundersen was basing most of his comments on - it's 33 pages long:
http://www.fairewinds.com/sites/default/files/AREVA%20Fukushima.pdf
please recall he also warned that this report has serious errors, and that he would be working toward a new presentation when he figured wtf was upskie, ok?
slewie, I believe he said that a lot of the propositions were best guesses necessitated by the incredible lack of some very important data, and that he tied this together with the fact that TEPCO simply doesn't have the proper equipment to obtain accurate data points because of how significantly radiation levels have grown.
perhaps you are right, TIS. why do i think he said some parts of the report, which is really quite old, are no longer considered factual? quite like some of the stuff he sez TEPCO has published, as i recall, now, too...,...
some of what AREVA reported was not guesses. it was info. and i'm pretty sure, according to arnie, it turned out to be wrong, here & there.
actually, you may be right and i overstated arnie's actual words. at this point, when he goes to "reliability" of the AREVA source, well, let's just see where he takes it after he reckons what they reported, ok?
Someone earlier posted that this whole mess is surreal.
Indeed so, that is until you view the pics posted by Bob earlier @http://tinyurl.com/3f4z3ad. Up until then, tragedies such as this one are easier to speak of and make light of if there is not faces associated with it, but once a connection is made the gravity of this tragedy becomes all too apparent and the surrealness disappears. Kind of puts things in perspective.
'So much evil seems to land on man'
Bruce Cockburn, 'Radium Rain'
Saw that yesterday and posted it here. My heart hurt for the dogs. They seem so confused.... Where did all of our humans go? Any why weren't the guys wearing protection of any kind? You could see bear hands.
I keep envisioning the eventual lifeless nuclear boneyards of the soon-to-arrive concrete pump cranes and equipment such as at Chernobyl:
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=51.284333,30.213743&spn=0.003255,0.009248&z=17
http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/14633
intermittent beebing is better than expected constant alarm sound...so so very bullish indeed
For whom does the beep toll? It tolls the land, people and environs of this horror.
in the future CNN will just be a bunch of moderators talking about youtube clips
A catchier title would be:
Freeway To FukushimaWhat they are saying and what's on the screen (I guess it's pretty obvious without translation, but just in case)
Slightly after driving into the 30-kilometer radius: 1.1 micro-sievert/hr (total radiation level);
A pack of dogs at 21 kilometers to the plant;
At about the 20-kilometer radius: 1.25 micro-sievert/hr;
At 17 kilometers to the plant, several trucks with men with protective suits;
At 15 kilometers to the plant: 6.47 micro-sievert/hr; the road is badly damaged near the Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant and they have to make a detour;
Cows eating grass;
At 10 kilometers to the plant, an increasing number of abandoned cars and trucks;
In Tomioka-cho, 8.5 kilometers from the Fukushima I plant: 5.0 micro-sievert/hr;
At 8 kilometers to the plant, they encounter a civilian in a car, with mask and raincoat to protect himself;
Their car cannot go any further because of debris, so they walk;
At 3 kilometers to the plant on the road: 3.64 micro-sievert/hr;
At 3 kilometers to the plant by the ocean: 1.20 micro-sievert/hr;
Back to the car, at 2.5 kilometers to the plant: 7.85 micro-sievert/hr;
At 2 kilometers to the plant, they feed a sausage to a bulldog, telling the dog to hang in there;
At 1.8 kilometers to the plant, they encounter a pack of cows; 11.1 micro-sievert/hr;
From there, they walk up to the coast to see the Fukushima I plant;
94.2 (you hear one of them saying "no sh-t..."), 106, 108, 109, 112 micro-sievert/hr when they finally saw the plant in 1.5 kilometer distance.
radioactive cesium at "minuscule" levels found in rainwater in Korea... at almost 1 bq per sq metre http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_Sc_detail.htm?No=80725
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In two Tohoku Electric's nuke plants, the diesel power generators didn't work during the power outage after April 7 aftershock. No plan to do anything about it, because nuke plats are safe.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/04/japan-earthquake-april-7-aftershock_0...
Thanks Lapri. Ex-Skf is a vital info pipeline.
In two Tohoku Electric's nuke plants, the diesel power generators didn't work during the power outage after April 7 aftershock. No plan to do anything about it,
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That's sick; the twin diesel pumps at a co I used to work for used for 'sprinkler pumping' were tested regularly - and worked ... it was cool to hear those large engines doing their thing, with the RPMs nearly matched but off but a 1/2 a Hertz or so ... the vibrations would come into and out of phase quite noticeably ...
But, you have to tell the whole story, from the website:
If the external power goes down again for any reason, Tohoku Electric says the power generating vehicles at the plant, which were sent to the plant after the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident, would be sufficient to do the minimum cooling.
listen, 7777, i don't know what really happened, there, after the quake on 4.7.11. i really don't care to try to to decide from your sources, or Lapri's, either, if ya don't mind. i wonder if maybe lapri isn't trying to report something s/he actually thinks failed after that quake.
the idea that you can refute this with a TEPCO version of what shoulda happened, which i think you might be up to, here, is not the same as knowing and saying what ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN.
mr 7777: some of these reactors don't do too well in 7.0+ earthquakes, have you not heard? the shaking and streeses on the giant structures are not always okey dokey, ok? uhhh,...,...you do stipulate to the earthquke, do you not? perhaps those diesels didn't fire right, and some "authority" just forgot about these great vehicles for a while or more, well, maybe somebody only had a 300-lb filing cabinet crushing his foot, for all i freaking KNOW, but,maybe. once again, the TEPCO "plan" just didn't get working. from what you come with, again, i don't get the idea that you know otherwise. do you? do you know for a fact that this scene had the "sufficient power" actually DOING the cooling, that day? i sure don't!
really. do you? for sure? or are you just blowing more smoke at someone who is honestly trying to report a problem? maybe Lapri's ideas are wrong. but, if you don't know that they are wrong, what the hell are you doing, tring to run him down without FACTS? and, why?
NHK Japan reports on US reactor safety concerns
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_26.html
Congress: US reactor may not be safe enough
A US Congressional subcommittee has warned that a nuclear power plant in the country could face the same problems as Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant in a worst-case scenario.
The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee released a study by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the Peach Bottom nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.
The report says that if a power loss occurs for a long time, fuel rods in the reactor could be damaged, leading to the release of radioactive substances within 2 days.
The reactor has the same design as the Number 1 and Number 2 reactors at the Fukushima plant.
The report adds that safety equipment installed after the September 11th attacks in 2001 will prevent fuel rods from being damaged in emergencies.
But the House subcommittee was not satisfied with the explanation and urged the Commission to further examine the issue.
Friday, April 08, 2011 14:14 +0900 (JST)
Definitely feel for the animals, the dogs are too helpless. and the people too, but if they want to chill out in the radiation zone that's their choice. damn when the alarm goes off just after 2:00 it startled me
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Sheer bravery...or stupidity? Either way, hats off to the Japanese for the way they've dealt with this whole thing. If only we could show such resilience now...
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Nicely post of "Highway To The Fukushima Zone: First Person Trek Through A Radioactive Wasteland".
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