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Live Tokyo Geiger Counter
Those who wish to bypass the media entirely and observe Tokyo radioactivity directly, and the SPEEDI site is down (as it seems to always be), below we present a realtime webcast of a live Tokyo Geiger counter.
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Hey all you ignorant bitchez! California is due the big one, forget that? And the probability just rose dramatically for that to happen real soon.
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The Associated PressWASHINGTON -- A U.S. nuclear industry official says there is evidence that the primary containment structure at one of the stricken Japanese reactors has been breached, raising the risk of further release of radioactive material.
Perspective
The US can't help, its hands are full killing wedding parties and young boys collecting firewood with Hellfire missles from Drones - afterall, these poor suckers are an unimaginable threat to America!
Fix It, give my regards to Democratic Underground
only libs care about the MIC murdering babies in their beds. lulz
The on above is the second one that I found. Below is the original one that I have watched since yesterday, because, yes I live in Tokyo.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geiger-counter-tokyo
Just a question. An earlier poster indicated the average chest x-ray exposed someone to .1 mSv while the counter is indicating .28mSv. I understand that the reading is "slightly elevated" from the .11mSv indicated earlier.
Does that mean the average background radiation being measured by the meter is indicating an exposure of 3 chest x-rays every minute? I mean the X-ray only lasts a second or less, whereas this is continous.
Of course that would mean the normal background radiation is the level of an X-ray all day, every day too.
I think the calculation done from a post below is incorrect....cpm is counts per minute. So using this equates to 14,1912 millirems per year (if this count stays this high all year). This is about 3x the normal level for an occupational worker (5,000 millrems) and about 28x greater then the 500 millirems per year for the normal person.
100 CPM equals 1 micro sievert!! Normal background is 20 CPM and it depends on the calibration. After the release on Tues morning (I forget if it was due reactor 2 internal explosion or spent fuel pool) then the reading peaked at 0.89 microsievert so the meter should have read about 90.
1000 microsievert equals 1 milisievert.
ZH is turning into a loon site.
Well you've only been around for six months...maybe you don't remember all the calculating of water volumes in the Gulf of Mexico etc? When non-financial disasters occur people try to figure it out.
More good info helps.....and is appreciated.
Big stream of good news coming from Japanese govt and IAEA now....hopefully it's not just a memo from the elite saying STFU, BTFD....
Interesting, bureaucracy interfering with helicopter assistance from military:
TOKYO, March 15, Kyodo
The government is considering using Self-Defense Forces helicopters to pour water on the spent fuel pool of one of the troubled reactors at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture to help cool it, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said Tuesday.
But the measure has been put on hold because the government has had trouble assessing the potential impact it would pose to the fuel rods underwater and SDF personnel involved in such an operation, Kitazawa told reporters.
The request for the measure came from a task force set up Tuesday by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to the Defense Ministry.
The power supplier is battling to bring reactors at the plant under control, including the No. 4 reactor, where a spent fuel pool was boiling and its water levels were feared to be receding on Tuesday. The plant was crippled by Friday's devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
The ministry began preparing to dispatch a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter unit in Chiba Prefecture, seeing that it would be possible for the helicopters to apply the same technique used for putting out a forest fire -- namely, dropping water from the air.
But for now, the spent fuel pool is being cooled by police and firefighters on ground, after the government judged that an aerial approach ran the risk of damaging the spent nuclear fuel underwater and exposing SDF personnel to radiation, according to Kitazawa.
''We will perform our duty when we reach the stage where (the temperature rise in spent fuel) begins to settle down and we decide to drop large amounts of water from the sky,'' he said.
So, a question I don't think anyone has asked yet?
What are these lying bastards doing with the contaminated sea water they are pumping into these leaking reactors? Probably pumping it right back into the ocean like BP would do.
Pretty sure they are just pumping water from cisterns in. No provision for out. It either boils into steam (air release) or runs into whatever drainage there is on the floor/out the blown out walls, depending on which building (runoff into ocean).
"Modern Britain is a nation with smartphones glued to their glossy, well-conditioned hair, rushing off to an encounter set up by an online dating agency. Or at least, this is the picture painted by the Office for National Statistics, which has updated its annual basket of goods used to calculate inflation."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8383301/Apps-and-dating-agency-fees-in-new-inflation-basket.html
<< ...rushing off to an encounter set up by an online dating agency. >>
So that is what George Michael was doing in London public parks ( and American public toilets ) all those times ?
Well, there's at least one other person who would appear to have some experience, who suspects the IAEA has basically shut down all flow of information, and that there's a disaster in the making -
Chernobyl clean-up expert slams Japan, IAEA | Reuters
VIENNA (Reuters) - Greed in the nuclear industry and corporate influence over the U.N. watchdog for atomic energy may doom Japan to a spreading nuclear disaster, one of the men brought in to clean up Chernobyl said on Tuesday.
"This is only a fake organisation because every organisation which depends on the nuclear industry -- and the IAEA depends on the nuclear industry -- cannot perform properly.
"It always will try to hide the reality."
Andreev said he understood all too well what the Japanese authorities in Fukushima were going through, and that creative solutions would be needed to contain the leaks.
"It is a situation of quiet panic. I know this situation," he said. "Discipline is the main thing in the industry but the emergency service requires creativity, requires some kind of even fantasy and improvisation."
Here ya go Tlyler and Marla:
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1300189582P.pdf
To all those greedy MF'ing corporate asshats and to their sycophant, ass-kissing engineers - People are 80% water NOT 80% Lead! The universe is too small to hold my disqust, loathing and rage! You need to be hung for crimes against humanity!!!
Oil braniacs similarly used their 15 minutes of fame during the BP Gulf of Toxico gusher to continually impress each other with how scientifically well the entire disaster was being handled. Several of us who questioned the stability of the seafloor sands and the possibility of a below sea-floor leak were quickly escorted off of the oildrum.
As the gusher continued, one expert said "For the time being, I'm satisfied to trust in the technical expertise of the engineers".
I responded: "For the time being, the Gulf water and harvest, as well as shore biology and business, are being ruined" - and was immediately drummed out of action.
If the nuclear experts manage an aquatic and atmospheric contamination in similar fashion, there may be no place to hide.
Speaking of "readings", it looks as though many expect Heliben to say something such as "The Federal Reserve is prepared to act "if needed" to assist in further asset purchase and FX Swap operations with Japan". "This in an effort to secure effective stabilization of current market conditions due to recent unanticipated catastrophic events".
Otherwise, wouldn't be falling somewhat further. Ir was more fun overnight than here now.
You have to be shitting me - dropping water from helicopters on a disintegrating nuclear power plant? It's like pissing on a volcano. Who are those assholes? Get someone in there who knows what the fuck to do. We need a George Patton type, dig up the dead Russian generals who defended Stalingrad - they could do a better job in this situation.
All is well. Remain calm.
They can drop a lot of water over a wide and varying area, hitting some of the brick and a few of the remaining windows with H2O, with those helicopters.
This is not a desperation move signifying deepening problems. At all.
Anyone realize that this is the THIRD time Japan has been nuked??
I wonder if God is sending a message to Japan?
Yeah, do not buy reactors from USA.
All three times by GE
if God were that just, you wouldn't be here to post.
I've always enjoyed the times I've spent in Japan more than in any other country - they don't deserve this.
Cascading clusterfuck. They probably could have shutdown all four with sea water after the first explosion but tried to save the reactors instead. Now each one is failing slowly but surely. Russians in Chernobyl used heavy metal, powdered bismuth to absorb the heat in seconds.
Get the men who solved Apollo 13 - seriously, someone has to get some experts together and give them 24-48 hours to find a solution or they will be shot in the head - hell, I'll volunteer to pull the trigger and I'm a very peaceful person, but it's all about the greater good now, especially when considering that the generators trucked in had the wrong type of plug - I keep pinching myself over that one, this must be a dream - WRONG PLUGS???!!!
Not word one about entombment. No evacuation for Tokyo. These guys are just going to sit there.
Next 12 hours are absolutely crucial.
--Wind tends to shift offshore at night, allowing a bit more time.
--They might get the power back on.
--Almost out of buildings to explode.