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Update From Fukushima
Radiation Expert: Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released from Fukushima ... And Radiation Levels In Some Parts of Tokyo Are Higher than In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released By Fukushima
Radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby says that huge quantities of radiation - 1013 or 10 trillion becquerels per hour - are still being released from Fukushima.
This is down slightly from some of the radiation levels observed in March, which - as I noted in April - exceeded levels pumped out at Chernobyl during the week-long fire.
But given that the Fukushima crisis has continued for months, Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl in terms of radiation released. See this and this.
Very High Radiation Levels Found in Tokyo
Busby brought sophisticated radiation testing equipment to Japan, and says that the radiation from one sample from Tokyo was higher than existed inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Report: Workers Say Ground Under Fukushima Plant Is Cracking and Radioactive Steam Is Being Released
According to wide-spread but unsubstantiated rumors, Fukushima workers say that the ground under the plant has cracked, and radioactive steam is being released from the cracks:
We'll update this post with confirming or debunking information as it develops.
U.S. Knew Within Days that Fukushima Had Melted Down
I noted in May that that International Atomic Energy Agency knew within weeks of the Japanese earthquake that the reactors had melted down ... but the public was not told for a month and a half.
I pointed out in June:
As the prestigious scientific journal Nature notes:
Shortly after a massive tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on 11 March, an unmanned monitoring station on the outskirts of Takasaki, Japan, logged a rise in radiation levels. Within 72 hours, scientists had analysed samples taken from the air and transmitted their analysis to Vienna, Austria — the headquarters of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), an international body set up to monitor nuclear weapons tests.
It was just the start of a flood of data collected about the accident by the CTBTO's global network of 63 radiation monitoring stations. In the following weeks, the data were shared with governments around the world, but not with academics or the public.
The attempted cover up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster is nothing new. Governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years, and the basic design for nuclear reactors was not chosen for safety, but because it worked on Navy submarines ... and produced plutonium for the military.
(Indeed, the government's response to every crisis appears to be to try to cover it up; and see this.)
Today, Yomiuri Shinbun reports (Google translation) that the U.S. knew within days that Fukushima had melted down:
The subject of evacuating the US citizens was raised in the early hours on March 16 (local time). The US ... already knew about the unusually high temperature of the reactors from the Global Hawk data, and determined that “the fuel has already melted”.
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The US high-ranking officials wanted to evacuate the US citizens [Tokyo] but the local officials including Maher objected, as “it would severely undermine the US-Japan alliance”
(The Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial aircraft).
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The only think leaking is the blogger's brain, contaminating a good site with unproven hysteria that is unrelated to the main content of the blog itself. Again, take a science course.
An appropriate avatar for that post would be a cheerleader with a death's head.
The only think leaking is the blogger's brain, contaminating a good site with unproven hysteria that is unrelated to the main content of the blog itself. Again, take a science course.
Oh ye great one, coming here to be the final decider as what is fit to print, what say you?
If hysteria is proven it is no longer hysteria, is it not?
If you actually took the time to research this subject you will see that it IS in fact relevant, and the real information about this is not all that comforting. And as a chemist, I have taken plenty of science courses.
pods
Don't feed the paid gov't trolls. They assume this site is like many others where they can sway opinion with pithy one liners.
GW,
Thanks for posting this after the headlines seem to have disipated, but the radiation certainly not!
If possible could you post links for the real time dispersion via winds aloft, and or a map of current readings-if there are any that can be believed. TD did this when the story first broke. I think providing links to these maps anytime updates on Fukoshima are very helpful, especially if the timeline of spread by winds aloft could be superimposed on the same timeline of increasing counts on the ground.
This is true. At the same time the Japanese Gubberment was telling people, "it's only a tiny leak" the foreign Embassies were evacuating all thier peoples out of the entire country.
So what's the radiation shower like on the West coast now?
West Canada?
Hawaii?
Nothing to worry about there...
I've been eating lamb here in UK for 20+ years since Chernobyl fallout, nothing wrong with me I say.
Anyway, I'm just logging off, have to go and shave that green hair off my back again and sell my PM's and buy BOC shares......
+1, cancer cure/prevention for you folks for 20+ years. Big shout out to the neighbors I see from my backyard..
Thanks Ruskies..
Sarah
Just a few weeks after the tsunami, after considering the half-lives of these various elements that are being pumped into the air, I figured Japan was rendered uninhabitable.
I wondered where they were going to go, how they could be financed, and realized just how screwed up all this was.
But the press just keeps smiling, the japanese people are farming and going to work, wha..?
They have left these death furnaces pumping- kachunk-kachunk-kachunk night and day. No encapsulation, no massive dumping of boron to dampen the reaction, nothing but empty gestures. They have killed millions, in slow motion agony, and will get away with it. And it will kill us, too, in even slower agony.
"And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."
The most frightening scripture in the Bible. There might be zombies.
Spooky, eh?
On the lighter side, it looks like Ag caught a bid today. :)
...things will get worse, much more than it is now.
check this site for US readings http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/12/realtime-epa-radnet-japan-nuclear-radiation-monitoring-every-us-city-single-page-16511/
Levels in some US cities are 100X background, which the EPA figures at 30-60 CPM beta.
Anything 3X background is considered a health risk.
At 300 CPM beta emergency response workers must take protective action.
I want to say just for the record that the german government said the day after the tsunami via german television news that a meltdown had occured with near certainty. But then they knew their audience was far away from the desaster.
Please note if they knew everybody knew.
who put the over/under @ 5X chernobyl and paid the under on 3.31 while BiChing abt having bullshit data for gamblers? huh?
Maybe we can buy their High Speed Rail cheap, those trains are so cool.
They come equipped with an onboard fuel supply.
"But it's only a tiny leak," TEPCO told thier people.
One tiny wafer thin mint
Take a gieger counter to the air filter in your car. THEN FREAK OUT!!!
I just did that to the filters in our Big Berky water filter. F'n things showed a signal substantially higher than background (like 50-100% higher).
This is very concerning.
For general reference, where are you testing?
Thank you for the update. I read some places in Cali still show elevated levels of radiation. How about Canada?
I might add that governmental lying and obfuscation does not limit itself to financial, radiological or radioactive financial information.
If anyone relies on any government to speak truth on any topic they deserve to be deluded.
In reply to Spigot: In the grand old days of American Democracy (government of, for and by the People) we had what is known as the Rule of Law, Freedom of Information, and a Free Press to keep the criminals and Congress honest.
True, all governments lie, but in whose interest are they lying for? Are they lying to protect the people or are they lying to destroy American sovereignty and the American People? Who are they lying for, the centralized fascist global banking cartel?
Great Americans have come forward on behalf of the American People in crisis. FDR, Roosevelt’s and JFK were great Americans who did the right thing. Things have never been so dire; Oligarchy fascism is far uglier than Democracy, soon we will know the military boot.
FDR??? FDR was a great American who did the right thing? You have got to be kidding me.
The winners write the history. Read FDR's Folly for a truthful assessment of FDR's record. He made all this possible, gutting the power of the states, shredding the Constitution, and creating a disfunctional federal regulatory system that was immediately converted into the playground of the inside crowd. His big hearted projects were diverted to the mid west states where he needed to shore up votes, leaving the deep South which had the hashest poverty, out in the cold.
He filled Washington with a "brain trust" of Ivy League do gooders that thrust us into a ten year depression. He surrounded himself with Soviet spies and handed us the Cold War. He knew absolutely nothing about economics but created a top down economy where he set wages and fixed prices, arbitrarily pulling numbers out of the air over breakfast and laughing about it.
Under FDR, we burned crops of wheat while importing foreign wheat, killed millions of farm animals just to keep them off the market, and literally drove the population into starvation.
You mean that FDR??? In the age of the Internet, the truth gets out. The New Deal legend written by left wing historians about a left wing dictator, don't hold water anymore. FDR gave you Ben Bernanke games, a ruined currency, endless wars, a Congress that can do nothing and a Supreme Court that is capable of anything.
That's your FDR, the worst president in the long sad history of our country.
In reply to smittyweston: Yes, the winners write the history and today the elite winners are the same people who ran America in to the Great Depression--- how they hate FDR for regulating them.
FDR’s fair trade policies, government regulation of the criminals who caused the Great Depression and massive public work projects pulled the American People out of the depression. Of course, the banksters were corrupting regulatory government as quick as it was created and blamed the dysfunctionality of government on FDR.
Get it, the fascist government that you hate so much, is the corrupt tool of the anti-American globalist who want to take over the world. That is the big difference in FDR’s regulatory government and today’s “free” fascist government.
Well here we are again, the banksters are back in full control of our government again and we are into another Great Depression that the global elite banksters have created. Just like the last Great Depression.
This time the fascist have overthrown our government and are free to take over the world. Think of how FDR would have spent the trillions of dollars to “stimulate” Main Street Capitalism which employs 70% of working Americans.
Trillions of dollars have been stolen by your precious .01% global elite, American taxpayers owe the trillions in debt, our Democracy and Sovereignty has been overthrown by the global elitist and we are at the beginning of another great depression. You had better pray for another FDR.
Are you being sarcastic?
The Global Hawk (a cool glider with a jet pack) surveillance of Japan and the jet stream for nuclear radiation contamination would be the smart thing to do.
“According to an article in the March 2010 issue of Scientific American (p. 25-27), the Global Hawk aircraft belonging to NASA were in use for testing purposes as of October 2009, with science missions expected to start in March 2010. Initial science applications included measurements of the ozone layer and cross-Pacific transport of air pollutants and aerosols.” (Global Hawk link)
Yeah, the US government knows all about how much radiation is being emitted from Fukishema and where the contaminants are going.
The question is, will the US fascist Oligarchy government inform the public or will they continue to ignore the problem and lie about it?
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/six-killed-in-series-of-te...
more "terrorist" attacks in israhole. hmmmm, its about time for some more distractions in the middle east....
It's astounding how naive people are. Since Bush 2 I have come to the default conclusion of government is to lie and cover up, to come3 clean only where caught. To show an extreme example of how bad it is. " good job Brownie", and "the system worked" for the underwear bomber. WTF. Yesterday we had the SEC getting rid of documents they should have been keeping. And, idiots still run around thinking the debate is left Vs. right, republican vS. DEMOCRAT. It isn't at all. !!!
The sooner we get to revolution...the sooner we can deal with it and move on. RISE UP! The government is here to slowly bleed you....until you die. Idiots pretending to be wolves in sheeps clothing, but technology has caught them and shed light on their stupidity. Wake up Congress - we do NOT believe a fucking thing you say!!!
Tepco is a corporation. News International is a corporation. BP is a corporation. While your statement may be true in a narrow sense, what we're seeing in our society is that most powerful institutions now use "lie and cover up" as SOP in any crisis. Another non-government example: the Catholic Church. It's not a government problem, it's a society problem.
Tepco is a corporation. News International is a corporation. BP is a corporation.
Corporations are people, too!
Thanks,
M. Romney & Supreme Court
Governments of the world kept important knowledge about the severity of the nuclear accident from people of the world. They lied. What is so hard to understand. Government is DEFINITELY the problem. Tepco was compliant in the cover up, but they are just a sideshow.
Hmm, I seem to recall stating that it was likely Tokyo would be abandoned within 10-20 years of this disaster (along with much of the peninsula to the west of Fukushima). Starting to look like that might happen.
months.
every square inch of japan has utility. when they start taking away large sections of japan, where are these people going to go? los angeles?
They are going to the cancer ward and then downsizing into urns. Where will the urns be stored? Yucca mountain.
That is about the size of it. It seems that they trust the government more than they trust their lying eyes. Or the clumps of hair falling out for that matter.
Eventually, the people will lose faith in their governemnt and flee to wherever they can go. By makeshift boat if they have to.
That is about the size of it. It seems that they trust the government more than they trust their lying eyes. Or the clumps of hair falling out for that matter.
Eventually, the people will lose faith in their governemnt and flee to wherever they can go. By makeshift boat if they have to.
Sounds like Obama voters. The people who want to flee - did not vote for him.
Damn - that's dark. . . But unfortunately not off the mark.
Glow in the dark.....
For 500,000 years.
can you imagine if this happened in the states? most of our units are old. these things are a clear and present danger.
I want to know how much plutonium was carried into the air from the Los Alamos fires. Looks like any answers will need to come from a concerned and motivated citizenry as TPTB have effectively employed the MSM as an arm of the ministry of propaganda.
In fraud speak this means a crisis not to be wasted-- in other words record bonuses as citizens take the punches and get all the cleanup.
And this is just a plant with problems. Imagine nuclear war. So they left US citizens in Tokyo just for public relations? With such idiots in control of our gov'ts----we just aren't going to make it much longer im afraid. Of course the elite might.....but the rest will be surviving like dogs.
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In the age of the Internet, nuclear war is obsolete. All you have to do is anonymously set off an EMP in the upper atmosphere, and everything comes to a halt. No cars, trucks, trains, radio, TV, computers, refrigeration, hospital care, no electricty at all.
Result: Mass starvation and rioting. Three days in the shelves are bare in the markets. The die off begins within a week. Three months later, 75% of the population is gone, most of them in the big coastal cities.
This isn't science fiction. It's the 21st century version of blietzkrieg. No tanks, cluster bombing, or invasions necessary, just one ship launced warhead bursting over the center of the country would black out everything from Ontario to Miami.
A disaster like this at a large power plant compares pretty favorably to a medium-scale nuclear war being fought on that spot. But without the blast damage and the seven mile-high mushroom clouds.
BTW.................am I over reacting or is Tokyo dead? You can't have millions of people in a high radiation zone sorry. And where the hell will they go? The early calls of the likes of Mish claiming 'people saying Japan will be inhabitable are stupid' are starting to look, well indeed, early.