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Fukushima Increased Cesium Levels 100 to 1,000 Times Worldwide ... and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Times On the U.S. West Coast
We noted 2 days after the Japanese earthquake that radiation from Fukushima could end up on the West Coast of North America. And see this.
We started tracking the radioactive cesium released by Fukushima within weeks of the accident.
In fact, U.S. nuclear authorities were extremely worried about the west Coast getting hit by Fukushima radiation … but publicly said it was safe.
We reported that Fukushima radiation spread worldwide.
And we’ve documented for years that the failure to test the potentially high levels of radiation hitting North America is a scandal.
Sadly, we were right to be worried …
The Journal Environmental Science & Technology – published by the American Chemical Society – reported last year that airborne levels of radioactive cesium were raised by 100 to 1,000 times (what scientists describe as two to three “orders of magnitude“):
Before the FDNPP accident, average 137Cs levels were typically of 1 ?Bq m−3 in Central Europe and lower average values (<0.3 ?Bq m−3) were characteristic of northern, western and southern Europe.
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During the passage of contaminated air masses from Fukushima, airborne 137Cs levels were globally enhanced by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.
Indeed, even hot particles and nuclear core fragments from Fukushima were found to have traveled all the way to Europe.
The French government radiation agency – IRSN – released a video of Fukushima cesium hitting the West Coast of North America. EneNews displays a screenshot from the IRSN video, and quantifies the extreme cesium spikes:
- Cesium-137 levels in 2010: 0.000001 mBq/m³ of Cs-137 (blue writing)
- Cesium-137 levels in Mar. 2011: 1 to 10 mBq/m³ in Western U.S. (orange plume)
- Cs-137 levels increased 1,000,000 – 10,000,000 times after Fukushima
Levels on the West Coast were up to 500 times higher than estimated. Cesium levels from Fukushima were higher than expected worldwide, including in the arctic region of Europe:
Radioactive cesium bioaccumulates in large fish and animals.
The radioactive half life of cesium 137 is usually 30 years. But scientists at the Savannah River National Laboratory say that the cesium at Chernobyl will persist in the environment between 5 and 10 times longer – between 180 and 320 years.
And the Fukushima accident has pumped out some entirely new forms of radioactive materials … in “glassy spheres“, buckyballs, ball-like spheres, and bound to organic matter. Scientists don’t really know how long these new forms will last …
The Day Tokyo Got Blasted by Fukushima Radiation
On March 15, 2011, the winds shifted …
The Fukushima radiation which had been blowing out to sea suddenly turned and hit Tokyo:
The image is a screenshot we took from a video released by the French government radiation agency, IRSN.
As we’ve reported for over 3 years, Tokyo got nailed by radiation. For example:
We knew what happened. Now we know when …
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I been hearing this song and dance for how long.
Jerry Brown Welcomes Fukushima Xenon and All Its Isotopes
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-06-28/
Fukushima released quite a lot of nasty bits that will never be cleaned up in anyone's foreseeable lifetimes. As bad as 137Cs is, tritium is certainly no one's friend either. Precisely because tritium is chemically identical to the hydrogen atom, it is able to incorporate itself at the most intimate biological levels where it effectively delivers its short ranged biologically destructive energy. Tritium rapidly exchanges with hydrogen atoms in nature including within the biological make up of all organic life. Anywhere water can be, so can tritium.
So how "hot" is tritium? Tritium has a specific activity of 9,800 curies per gram of the pure isotope. Comparatively speaking, the specific activity (or rate of decay), of toxic radioactive isotopes such as strontium-90 is 140 curies per gram, and for cesium-137 88 curies per gram.
not trying to rain on your parade of hot particles, but elities do claim to have the technology to do clean up. as well as a nifty plasma control. you could watch jimmy buffet live from his last summer concert now...... http://www.margaritaville.tv/live
First ebola and now this.
no chance of course that it was all intentional.
I guess I should put off that trip to Japan!
After reading that article the other day about how the Japanese are doing due to their bad economy, I started to look at Japanese mail order brides! Um, yeah no thanks!
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bottom line is this do u trust the government, any government anywhere. my personal answer is to laugh my ass off ha ha. so whether it be fukufuku or something else the world is fucked. which is actually liberating. im not looking for a way out i just try to make the most of what ever quality time is left.
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
I miss the good old days of 11 CPM pre fuckusshima on the west coast.
I got the cheep Geiger counter off Amazon which doesn't detect all the really nasty shit. "cesium 137, Strontium 90, etc.
But last time I turned it on I decided not to use it any more and try and live every day as if it was my last. I only like big numbers when I played asteroids as a child.
On the plus side real estate should get cheaper as people die from Cesium induced Brain Aneurisms, heart attacks, and Leukemia. Maybe I will save 15% or more on my heating bill since I'm getting cooked from the inside out. ;)
P.S. Fuck you G.E. and your shitty reactor design. I think you can understand why I will never buy a G.E. product as short as I live.
No one flaming on GW knows, or bothers, to wonder where Cesium comes from?
Uranium-235 can decay into cesium-137 and strontium-90,
and, mainly for those in Japan
http://enenews.com/just-in-harmless-xenon-cloud-is-known-to-cause-dramat...
Half-lives are a short-sounding mathematical abstraction; the "full decay" is ~10x the half-life. There is no safe level of Cesium, or a host of other nucleides, and where there is cesium dust, you will find plutonium dust, and every other partical the MOX spewed, and is still spewing.
I repeat again:
To find in a Japanese airport just cut energy.
What turns blue brinhando is Japanese.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.
This serves to cans of tuna, sushi, sashimi and all those costly raw crap out there. Kkkkkkkkkkkkk.
Radiation, like blood pressure, is often a slow killer. I worked in a medical office as a kid where the x-ray shielding was found to be flawed. The office manager got suspicious when both x-ray techs developed medical problems; one involving the bone marrow and the other her thyroid.
Problem is often you don't realize you've been zapped until it's way too late.
In any case, when those Cali strawberries start growing to 5 lbs apiece, and hte lettuce heads are 20lbs each, the folks out there may just catch on.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-06-19/
...except comparing the exposure Chernobyl kids got with the exposure anyone gets from a cloud that passed over once or twice is...scaremongering. Equating the exposure rates in a transient cloud to general background is...scaremongering.
Putting the spent fuel pools on the third story in order to facilitate refueling a design (gen 1 BWR) which never should have been produced? Inexcuseably idiotic. I won't be happy about this until the fuel is all out and in casks.
There is no safe dose of radiation. Alice Stewart published her preliminary findings in "The Lancet" in 1956. Radiation is dangerous at any level. This is not new news. This is why they stopped X-Raying pregnant women and why the dentist puts a lead apron on you. Not everyone want to win the cancer lottery.
...and x raying your thyroid during a dental x ray is OK? Do you get dental x rays?
The Fukushima radiation is what happens when things go bad and falls under "if it doesn't happen today it will sooner or later." Below is a list of the worlds ten most crucial problems counted down from "least to most crucial" The world must begin to address these many problems with long term solutions.
Most of these are issues that center on our sustainability. Sadly, politicians do not deal well with such things leaving us without direction. As we look at the human condition we can let fate take us where it may choose or we can take control of our future by proper planning and by guiding it as best we can.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-worlds-10-worst-problems.html
GW, and all. How much has the world's general background radiation increased since 11 March 2011 ? If this is from minuscule to tiny, is it a big problem really (in places far away from Fukushima) ? Does anyone know these numbers?
Edit, update: see post from Boing... In southern cal air radiation seems 20-30x higher than average background...
San Jose is in Northern Caliifornia. Heads up..
Do you know the way to San Jose?
We pay for forced medication with water fluoridation, look at the bright side, we're all getting free chemotherapy.
more like free lobotomy. Fluoride in the water and the drones don't riot anymore they just watch sports and reality tv and stay inside 24x7 - divorced from community, humanity and social interaction.
they become induced assberger victims and they still get dental caries from all the freaking sugar. bloated obese, apathetic and always in search of another snack and a diet soda and something to divert their attention from their own lifes.
Fluoride, its not just for breakfast anymore.
Some folks here say we are waking up, but nobody I know personally has the faintest clue of the snowball/train wreck/clusterfuck headed our way. Must be because I only drink coffee, vodka and beer. It'll be a hoot if only those who were called fuck-ups turned out to be the only ones who 'saw it coming', won't it?
And you know what? It won't matter. Even when proven right, as we have been many times in the past, the idiot masses will still believe the mouthpieces they were taught to believe.
May peace be onya, Prankster!
They're just sheltering in place!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape_alert
Here San Jose, CA no rain for very long time. The reading is from my opened window. Tonight is very special, I never measured this high from my house. I did get as high as 12 usv/h from some sections of local highways.
Holy Fxck! while I'm typing this comment, my geiger counter just reads 7.4 usv/h, totally crazy radiation level in san jose tonight. Mark my comment, .gov guys.
7.4 usv/h = ~65,000 usv/y = 65 msv/y... that's quite a lot above (~ x30) "natural background levels in the US for air" (~2.3 msv/y, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation)... :-/ Thanks for posting this.
"I'm typing this comment, my geiger counter just reads 7.4 usv/h, totally crazy radiation level in san jose tonight."
Did it rain? Rain causes an increase cpm because of radon gas. It will also increase if there is solar activity (solar storm)
I thought I'd read this and feel worse. Instead I figure that this posting was just crying wolf so things really aren't getting worse...so what do I do now?
Where are all the "FALSE FLAG" ZHers? Is it only a false flag if doesn't fit your twisted view of the world? AGAIN, GW is citing himself, over and over. It's one big ad for his blog.
My detector hasn't found any change in radiation levels on the west coast of CA or Baja. I will check the tuna when they are running, the ones the Japanese haven't trapped in their nets. Now that is a really scarry story.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"My detector hasn't found any change in radiation levels on the west coast of CA or Baja. I will check the tuna when they are running, the ones the Japanese haven't trapped in their nets"
Your going to have a tough time measuring radiation contamination in seafood unless you have a HPGe detector. Measuring radiation contamination if foods with high water content is difficult. FWIW: to detect Radiation from Fukishima you'll need to measure for Cs-134 since is has a modest short half life. Measuring Cs-137 will not distinguish it from other sources (ie leaking US power\Weapon Plants, previous meltdowns, etc).
FWIW: Will see how much damage really happened as people start developing detectable thyroid cancer in the next two to four years. I suspect Japan will have an awful large number of people getting thyroid cancer.
My understanding is that most of the contamined water from Fukishima that is going into the Pacific ocean is falling to about 300 meters and traveling south down the coast of Japan. Until one of the Spent fuel pools fails, CA's biggest near term threats are: Drought, Earthquakes and political policy (Fed, State local). But don't eat the seafood any more. Even if the radiation doesn't get you the other forms of pollution (heavy metals and industrial toxins) that are getting dumped into the Sea (Mostly China) will make you sick.
http://youtu.be/mOVdqh22ohk
I guess that I oughtta be ascared. But I'm nearly as old as some of these gals. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babushkas/the-babushkas-of-chernobyl-0
Then there is Galen Winsor. He says that he swims in the storage pool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCQrOTE-XA
Fascinating, IndianaJohn! Jesus, I can't wait for this government to die!
As I understand it, russia did a moon-shot containment effort of Chernobyl. Building a concrete sarcophagus. Nothing like this has been done at Fukishima. The design life for Chernobyl cask is 30 years and rapidly approaching. If these women have not been affected by radiation so far, perhaps they should not worry about replacing this containment vessel? As I understand fukishima, they repaired the buildings, painted the insides to look as shiny as new and invited news crews in to see the decommisioning efforts. The interesting part is that the news crews were blind folded for the last 10 minutes of transport to the site, including entering the buildings.
I will donate to these kick starter dudes if they get full duration footage of a plant inspection of Reactor 4 at Fuki. Then I will compare it to CNNs "Pandora's Promise" footage.
" I understand it, russia did a moon-shot containment effort of Chernobyl. Building a concrete sarcophagus. Nothing like this has been done at Fukishima"
Fukishima is a much harder problem to solve. Only one reactor at Chernobyl melted (exploded), where as 4 reactors at Fukishima melted down. Chernobyl also didn't suspend spent fuel pools three stories above the reactors. My understanding is that Chernobyl was used to make plutonium, so all of the spent fuel was processed and not stored in large spent fuel pools.
Good info. It sounds to me like you can't use evidence of people living near Chernobyl as a comparison to Fukishima, and to do so is either sarcasm or disengeuous. It also seems like in a fully functioning reactor, it would be possible swim in the coolant pools, since the radio isotopes are not allowed to muddy the pipes. How else could you find homer simpson guys to turn the valves on and off? Replace O rings and what not.
" It also seems like in a fully functioning reactor, it would be possible swim in the coolant pools, since the radio isotopes are not allowed to muddy the pipes"
The Water in the core is contaminated. Reactors use heat exchanges to transfer waste heat into external water sources (ie river, or via cooling tower). Valves are external to the reactor and are usually electrically controlled. I believe the o-rings are metal and don't need to be replaced. I believe the most common parts of reactors that need servicing are the circulation pumps and the heat exchangers. over time the Heat exchangers need to be cleaned to remove scale buildup, But Maintanence is done when the reactors are shutdown and in a cold state.
That said, there is group of professional "reactor divers" that go into reactors using dry suits for inspections and some maintanence work. Not a very health career path.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/swimming-hot-side?nopaging=1
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Fukashema is mutating George Washingons fonts.
New lows for GW...
Seriously. What is this? The Teamsters?
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GW:Stanford University News reported that solar flares change the rate of radioactive decay of elements on Earth:
Pretty cool stuff, thanks for posting that.
ClassicalLib :Duc888, But the 12,000 abandoned wind turbines in California are just dandy with you, right?
Sounds like they were a shovel ready jobs program to me. Someone constructed them and got paid, thus enabling them to buy more I-fag fan-boi stuff and low quality Chi-goods at Wally-werld.
Such is the circle of life.
Round and round we go.
GW -
Until Gold breaks 2000, who gives a fuck about your doom and gloom babble. You've been a dweebie conspiracy Delta Bravo for way too long and it's obvious that 1) either your an olly plant to stir up divisions or just a glorified punk in your moma's basement. I mean, who the F are you anyway??? You've got a CIA script or you're just making it up as you go. Only those of us who have been in the fray for more than 18 months are starting to get a little calloused toward those of you who started talking big, but finally were exposed as true "know-nothings". Copper-headed dolt, that's what you are. No better than a troll for all the good you do.
Nice number 1!
Nice comeback, limp noodle.
Have a nice 3-day.
In reply to psnscarlet: What is interesting is morons like you that have nothing to say but feel compelled to say something. Ha. Ha. Your scrambled gibberish is garbage composed from a garbage brain. Ha. Ha.
ps, have a nice day! Ha. Ha.
He is a well known moron over at Turds joint too.