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Radiation In Tokyo Drinking Water Jumps To Twice Infant Safety Level
The latest news out of Tokyo, and the reason why the Nikkei took a big turn lower in overnight trading, is that according to the latest disclosure by Tokyo authorities on Wednesday, "water at a purification plant for the capital of 13 million people had 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine -- more than twice the safety level for infants." While the threshold itself may not be all that material, it merely reinforces the perception that either the government is covering up something far more sinister, or the authorities have lost control of the situation, with incremental bad news creeping up every single day. As a result, as we have claimed from the very beginning, one of the world's most populous cities, located just 150 miles away from what may soon be the next Chernobyl per prior whistleblower disclosure, could likely soon be a ghost town with dire implications for the Japanese and world economy.
More from Bloomberg:
Tokyo authorities said city tap water may be unsafe for infants while Japan’s government sought to assure people that radiation levels detected in the food chain following a nuclear accident don’t pose a health threat.
Radioactive iodine levels taken yesterday at a treatment facility in Katsushika ward were double the recommended limit for babies, a city official said in a televised briefing today. The water would pose a health risk if drunk over the long-term, such as a year, he said. Tokyo’s population is estimated to be about 13 million people.
Disclosures of rising contamination, coupled with assurances that risks are minimal, underscore the government’s struggle to contain the ripple effects of a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that crippled a nuclear facility north of Tokyo. Japanese stocks extended declines after Tokyo issued the water advisory, with the Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average falling 1.7 percent to close at 9,449.47.
"It’s hard to tell people they’re ingesting radiation in any way that won’t provoke a panic," said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University’s Tokyo campus. "But the government has been far more transparent than in any case I can recall."
The health ministry earlier today advised against eating leafy vegetables, broccoli and cauliflower produced near the stricken Dai-Ichi power plant, which is located 220 kilometers (135 miles) from Tokyo. The degree of contamination detected isn’t harmful, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a Tokyo briefing. While parents shouldn’t use tap water to mix baby formula, it can be drunk safely by adults and children, he said.
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Bullish for bottled water. Check the Evian(Danone)/Nestle/Coca Cola stocks.
yes but bearish for utilities and power. You don't need electricity when the whole place comes alive at night with a wondrous eerie glow...
and neon sign makers are totally screwed!
Bearish for toilet bowl cleansers too. I'd step away from P&G and Clorox today....
how long til its glowing like planet Pandora, and the nips have mutated into avatars of themselves?
By my calculation I should say that when rounded to the nearest month around 4 minutes and 23 seconds...
Let me take a long hard sip of that.....I need to buy some stocks today!
Is that water or Toilet bowl cleaner you need a sip of. A whole new line of water products for Japan called Cutty Nuke
I believe the toilet waters' more healthy than the tap water now...
Its happening as you speak. Even the airline are cutting trips to Tokyo
Actually, Lufthansa is resuming tomorrow Tokio/Narita after suspension last week. Will be twice daily. My guess is empty inbound, full outbound. LH might be able to make a killing in tickets sales.
This is definitely bullish for LH stock.
If the Japanese come to America - They will greet the TSA and give THEM a "dont touch my Junk" moment.
& fog the security screen
Sorry, but I fail to see how this affects Manhattan, and therefore it doesn't matter. In the meantime, Ben has reconnected power to /ES pump machine #2.
...but it turns out the pump is broken.
Why print 15 trillion brand new yen if everyone's leaving?
The Japanese government prefers to have glow in the dark babies. You spot them better whenever there are black-outs.
The degree of contamination detected isn’t harmful, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a Tokyo briefing.
BUT DON"T EAT Ya GREENS. another cognitive disonance moment.
Children know instinctively better. They don't like greens. Spinach the worst. How about a nice steak ?
Hm, a nice Kobe steak that glows in the dark, yummy. Ordered rare so that by the time it gets to the table the radiation cooks it to medium.
Soon they will be serving the John Madden Thanksgiving day turkey with 4 drumsticks
Just wash the radiation off the steak and you're good to go.
As long as the food chain is not affected.
Many animals love to eat greens,
cows eat them don't they?
Depends what country the cows are from. In the midwest, it's all corn fed beef, full of hormones and nasty shit. The grass fed has a different taste but in a good way. Anyone else seen Food Inc.?
I know exactly what I am talking about, I work amongst it every day; I can smell a feedlot as I type this
eeeewwww, that brought back bad memories of Cedar Rapids, IA in the fall. Wind from one way, Quaker Oats, wind from another way, the "stockyard." Both were pretty ripe.
- Ned
{There are 'ear-worms' for bad songs that won't go away, what about smells years later?}
when the wind blows just right ,i can smell the mushroom farms....composted shit smell...mmmmm....good....shitake
'But don't eat your greens'...
So, how long till the radiation shows up in the milk supply...three, two, one...
Japanese government will continue disembling until its citizenry starts dropping in the streets. If for no other reason, than to avoid anarchy.
The water would pose a health risk if drunk over the long-term, such as a year, he said. Tokyo’s population is estimated to be about 13 million people.
And DON"T drink water for more than a year.How long does radiation hang around for? Just asking?
So they have like a whole year to leave Tokyo and never come back. Why panic?
Half-life of Iodine-131 is 8 days.
problem with that is the question of how many days,weeks,months,years these things spit I-131 for
It's already contained. /sarc
If history is any guide... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AirDoseChernobylVector.svg
better question is how long can you go without water....bottled water for all needs including bathing and cooking and washing cloths is alot of bottled water
what do you think they'll need to acquire and deliver daily in total?
100 million a day....8 12oz bottles per person seems mighty conservative
country will be 3 feet deep in emptys in a year for say, 30 years?
cover reactors in emptys?
"bottled water for all needs including bathing"
Shower with Tokyo tap water. When you're done, just rinse the radiation off.
nice
solves e v e r t h i n g
Where the Hell is Astro Boy when you need him.
So they have like a whole year to leave Tokyo and never come back.
Yup they won't be able to come back - they will all be pushing up radioactive daisies
"The Return of the Mutant Ninja Turtles" !
We need something to jiggle, upset, and rearrange our DNA because clearly, what we have in it now is destroying ourselves.
I think this could be a further tipping point for the Japanese. I listened to this report on the BBC News radio this morning, then they interviewed a Japanese mother and Tokyo resident who has an infant child and a 3 year old child. She said that her whole family - not just the infant - was now going to drink bottled water, and that they would seriously consider leaving Tokyo for the far south of the country. It's not whether the Government are actually lying or not, it is the perception that they are lying that will change public behaviour. If only 10% of the people of greater Tokyo think as that lady does, Japan is going to have a serious internal problem on top of the real issues of tsunami cleanup and Fukushima.
Talk about normalcy bias. Does anyone over there have two firing neurons? Sounds like everyone is waiting for the great panic, then they will all try to leave at once. WTF did they think was gonna happen once that radiation started blowing to the south?
those are being replaced by firing neutrons
This should be bullish for real estate in South-West Japan.
Japan is in serious trouble. There are things people cannot overcome. They cannot live on Mercury or Venus. Tokyo evacuation is quite possible.
Ya think? evac where. Vegas
Plenty of empty housing available if anyone can find the deed.
Would solve the banks problems with foreclosures wouldn't it.
When they claim the water is 'safe' for adults and children they conveniently skip over the problem that the dosage is cumulative. Safe for a month requires that the radioactive pollution cease and, so far, that has not happened. At some point people in Tokyo are going to realize they are like a frog in frying pan and if they don't jump now they will be boiled alive.
To any country which would agree to accept 40 mln people. Vegas is not an option. Russian Far East?
Bullish. Japan was in a population decline from low birthrate and facing inevitable doom anyway. US needs skilled labor immigrants and is facing housing excess for decades to come...this cures both. Plus we get to rename GM to Toyota/Lexus and suddenly the US dominates the world auto market.
As radiation leeches into the ground water this takes things to an even greater level of disaster and human tragedy. Thank God in the US we still have bombs for war and cash for Netflix movies and Chipotle burritos.
Japanda.
Detroit is 25% empty.
Perhaps we can cut a relocation deal for Japanese auto companies, their workers and families.
No kidding. It could come to this one the plutonium starts spewing out of #3.
[Tokyo evacuation is quite possible.]---Gmpx
I fear that is the worst-case scenario.
As a result, as we have claimed from the very beginning, one of the world's most populous cities, located just 150 miles away from what may soon be the next Chernobyl per prior whistleblower disclosure, could likely soon be a ghost town with dire implications for the Japanese and world economy.
What a steaming pantsload! You really need to take your meds, Tyler. This site is becoming a joke.
As a matter of Fact this site has been voted the No 9 top site in the whole Frigging World Floyd.
But that was 2 weeks ago. It probably is in the top three by now.
But that is irrelivent compared with NON containment in THREE large reactors in deep doo doo on the waters edge of the Pacific ocean and 150 miles from the nerve center of the number three economy in the World.
Not a biggy in your mind I'm guessing.
Can I borrow your rose colored glasses? Really? It hasn't even been 2 weeks, and radiation is at twice the limit for infants. No biggie right? What about 2 weeks from now when its 4 times the limit, then 8? They aren't going to have everything buttoned up at the reactors tomorrow.
Floyd this site is dedicated to the truth - pure & simple - no training wheels, no bibs, or nurse maids - there are glaring contraditions between MSM & REAL information sites - if you want you info chopped into pretty shapes I would recommend MSNBC, however, Tyler & The ZH team are providing REAL information interspersed with commentary that is absolutely TD - would not trade it for the world - understand & appreciate your post, but, where else would you get this information & dialogue? - THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE...
Maybe have you ever thought you're the joke for believing that the Japan nuclear situation really isn't much of a situation?
I think you have too many "o"s in your first name.
Reading ZH is optional you know...
A perverse symmetry.
There is no water in the reactors but the reactors are in the water.
I read that the new Chernobyl Sarcograph costs about 1 billion and apparently it was a struggle to find the money. They should have built 5-6 of them straight away, as it is just a question of when a next melting radioactive reactor is going to need one.
Actually, they realized they needed a new sarcophagus within a couple of years of building the original (original cost 18 bn roubles in the 80s, when it was $1 to a rouble and oil was $10 a barrel. Gorbachev said it broke the Soviet Union). This documentary was made in 91, and the cost then was $1.5 bn, so it will be multiples of it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319#docid=-5968...
Estimates so far put the cost to Japan at up to $300 billion, but these all exclude the costs of fixing this nuclear mess. My guess, we are looking at north of $50 bn, maybe more like $100bn, depending how they decide to fix the problems of pollution. I've been trying to find research on the decommissioning of nuclear power stations, but there seems to be a lack of decent analysis. All I know is, even without an accident, it costs more to take down than put up. I think this will break the country.
News blurbs on CNBC and Bloomberg this morning indicate that Japanese banks are considering loaning $25 billion to TEPCO. It is inevitable that the Japanese government will have to take over TEPCO to finish the cleanup. Nuclear plants that have not melted down cost about $1 billion to decommission. Much less that they cost to build in today's dollars (~$7-12B).
Good link, thanks. Japan is in a deep trouble, and that is the best case scenario.
Better than good, fascinating.
"But the government has been far more transparent than in any case I can recall."
Well, that's a confidence builder.
According to Ann Coulter this should be a bonus
For a discussion to take place where your ideas are a little on the right and you want to make then more center you can:
A: Adjust your ideas to bring them center
B: Pay an idiot a few hundred grand to say something so knowingly stupid you move the center closer to your ideas by extending the playing field. Follow up with captured media to firm up...
I don't know about the rest of you thinkers out there but this just gets more fucktarded every day.
The Japanese Government (changes every full moon) is a shining example of how to completely fool none of the people all the time. Tokyo Electric is pushing shit up hill with a pointed stick and Fuck u shima is a shining example of wastleland in perpituity. The Pacific ocean being used as a containment vessel of last resort just caps off a completely ruined example of man thinking he is master of all the does.
unrelated but interesting:
Surprised this hasn't gotten more airtime on ZH!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42209447
"If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent, the question is when," Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said in a question and answer session after delivering a speech at the University of Frankfurt. "The short-term negotiations are very important, I look at this as a tipping point."
My neighbor works for GE Nuclear. He said everything is fine. The reactors have substantial containment built beneath them. Nothing to worry about. All I could think of was the meeting they were probably called into last week...Since your neighbors know you work for GE, here's what you should tell them if they ask about what's happening in Japan...
Tokyo = diaspora
(for all you HPH PL folks )
NHK Reporting Cesium 137 levels 1600x greater than normal 40KM (18 miles) from Reactors
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_28.html
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.
Radiation: 163,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-137 per kilogram of soil has been detected in Iitate Village, about 40 kilometers northwest of the plant.
163,000 becquerels of CS-137 (distance used is 1cm as your feet are in contact with it)
Gamma Emissions: .1245 mSvr/Hr (Gamma @ 1cm). 20mSv/week. 543 mSv in six months. 1.08 Sv/year (108 Rem)
Beta Emissions : 22 mrad/hour, 3696 mrads/ week, 96 Rads in six months. 200 RADS / year
Cesium-137 half life: 30 YEARS
Effects
0.25 – 1 Sv (250 – 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged.
1 – 3 Sv (1000 – 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
Source: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_28.html
They should bring back the Prime Minister with the mullet.
babies can't drink water..give em breast milk
problem solved..it was so easy..next.
U.S. media is so incompetent that they put out this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110322/ts_yblog_thelookout/officials-remain-baffled-over-source-of-oil-slick-as-louisiana-coastline-is-oiled-again
2 days ago ZH reported it was due to another oil spill from a rig not far from BP rig. Its most likely another govt. coverup too!
Matt Simmons would know the cause of this... if he was still alive.
Obama, between golf and Rio, has too many things on his plate right now for this to become headline news just yet.
In time, this will move to the front, and he will take the opportunity to "plug the damn hole"
The good news is that Tokio water is now 100% germs free.
I'm going to start bottling Tokyo water and sell it as either Revian (TM), Radiant Sparkling Water (TM), or Ann's Elixer Cancer Fixer (TM).
BTW, anyone figure out how thi is leaching into the water supply yet?
Just name it IWater and people will buy it thinking its an Apple product.
210 becquerels in what volume of drinking water?
Well, I'm going to put a Canary in my Water Tank.
'The most idiotic article of the year'-award goes to Zero Hedge! The safety limit is 300 Bq/kg for iodine-131 but even some natural water sources have over 1000 Bq/kg.
Be that as it may, in your opinion, but the levels can only increase with rolling cackhandedness up at Fukushima.
Give the award to Bloomberg.
Bloomberg wrote:
Radioactive iodine levels taken yesterday at a treatment facility in Katsushika ward were double the recommended limit for babies
Tim and Ann Coulter's babies thrive on the stuff.
Any of it being used as the municipal water supply for a major metropolitan area?
This isn't some aberration. It is the tap water people in Tokyo must bath, cook and drink with. Since that nuclear power plant is still emitting radiation there is no reason to assume the situation is improving, lights being turned on in the control room notwithstanding!
Umm - so why is the Japanese Government saying that it is unsafe for infants to drink Tokyo tap water? Zerohedge reports this and you call it the 'the most idiotic article of the year'. Weird. Would you let your baby drink tap water if you lived there?
"but even some natural water sources have over 1000 Bq/kg."
No doubt, but is it recommended that you drink it every day?
The greater idea is probably to kill all black swans by nuking the water.
They probably found out what the exact dosage is to kill these bastard birds and they are trying this in Tokio.
Should people use that water to bath the children?
Children often drink some of the water when they are bathing...
Maybe the Tokyo exodus will start to accelerate... It's sad, very sad, because Kyoto and Osaka can't receive 30 million refugees from Tokyo...
Nothing to see here....Everything is OK....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region
The Kanto region is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region includes the Greater Tokyo Area. In official intercensal estimates for prefectures that are released every October by the Japan Statistics Bureau, the population was 42,053,000,[1] amounting to approximately one third of the total population of Japan.
If the water is unsafe for babies, who in their right mind will drink it?
That was my exact reaction. I find it incredible that people aren't leaving in droves at this point. You would think that at minimum people who had children would be leaving. This is terrible, terrible news.
Florida now has the highest housing vacancy rate in the US at 18%...Naples Fl vacancy rate at 32%. Many empty houses here for the evac of Tokyo...
If all wishing to evac Tokyo can't fit in Florida I'm sure the empty houses in Nevada, Arizona, et al, would accomodate most wishing to leave Japan...
This is a sad situation for the Japanese people. I hope that their gov moves to protect the people before it's too late. If not, Japan could face a scenario of 'Black Plague' proportions, when a large portion of the world was killed off by Bubonic Plague.
Tokyo's water supply crapped up? Will be like Shanghai/Beijing--drink bottled water, flush/wash with what is in the pipes. I-131 half life like 8 days. Cs-137 in the 30 year range.
Unprecedented.
- Ned