Japan: 9.0 Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Reactor Status #4

[coastal]

:sick: at the thought of radioactive milk.

Radiated dogs are in the basement after they went out in the rain to go to the bathroom.

New warning as Munch went out the door to the bus: " Keep your hood up to keep the radioactive rain off your skin. Do not under any circumstances try to catch the rain with your tongue. Don't drink from the water fountain at school. I love you!"

Tonight's forecast is 5-8 inches of perfectly safe radioactive snow.

We're starting a journal so things aren't forgotten years down the road. Not that reminding anyone of Fukishima will get us anywhere if the kids grow up and develop thyroid cancer.

I apologize. I'm on a rant this morning... Anything and everything may set me off, at completely safe levels of course.

No problem, ScorpRising...as long as you don't worry.

 

[ScorpRising]

No problem, ScorpRising...as long as you don't worry.

No worries here.

 

[IWannaKnow]

http://www.unionleader.com/article....rticleId=df4b2abb-3d03-4744-bccd-ceb764513651
NH testing: Radioiodine in snow melt
By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff
Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011

Radioiodine, or I-131, levels found in a snow sample the state public health lab tested over the weekend were about 40 pCi/L, or picocuries per liter, Montero said. This is at least 25 times below any level considered harmful to people who use that water as their only drinking source, he said. The level is about half of what was detected in tests done in Massachusetts, Montero added.

 

[peeples]

half of what was detected in MA???

Nice!! *sarcastic*

 

[Quiche]

Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: 'Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks'

Quote: Speaking tearfully through an interpreter by phone, the mother of a 32-year-old worker said: “My son and his colleagues have discussed it at length and they have committed themselves to die if necessary to save the nation.

“He told me they have accepted they will all probably die from radiation sickness in the short term or cancer in the long-term.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/31/japans-nuclear-rescuers-inevitable-die-weeks/#ixzz1IBrXpzuc

 

[Quiche]

half of what was detected in MA???

Nice!! *sarcastic*

Right! :crazy:

But seriously, I wish that someone would admit how much the west coast got!

 

[Daisyjane]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82382.html

: TEPCO TOKYO, April 1, Kyodo

A radioactive substance about 10,000 times the limit was detected from groundwater around the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday. A Tokyo Electric official said the radiation level is ''extremely high.''

 

[Quiche]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82382.html

: TEPCO TOKYO, April 1, Kyodo

A radioactive substance about 10,000 times the limit was detected from groundwater around the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday. A Tokyo Electric official said the radiation level is ''extremely high.''

Okay, if it's in the groundwater, then it's at least 9,999.9999 times the limit at reactor #2, and so on. If it's truly in the groundwater, then the entire region will be poisoned. jmo

 

[Quiche]

Recovery of dead hampered by radiation near Fukushima nuclear plant; contaminated milk in Washington

Quote: On Wednesday, 19 bodies were found in the area, but it is believed there could be hundreds more tsunami victims yet to be found.

"We find bodies everywhere - in cars, in rivers, under debris and in streets," said a police official in the hard-hit area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

One body had to be left behind after high levels of radiation were detected in it.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...ar_fukushima_nuclear_plant.html#ixzz1ICAF6ox0

 

[ScorpRising]

Right! :crazy:

But seriously, I wish that someone would admit how much the west coast got!

I would love to see some numbers from other parts of the country. I live in an area of naturally occurring radon known as the "Reading Prong" so I want to know if our numbers are skewed...

 

[Daisyjane]

Okay, if it's in the groundwater, then it's at least 9,999.9999 times the limit at reactor #2, and so on. If it's truly in the groundwater, then the entire region will be poisoned. jmo

Yes, that would be my interpretation too. And did you notice that announcement did NOT include the usual 'not harmful to humans' mantra?

 

[not_my_kids]

Radiation levels continue to climb in the area surrounding the Fukushima Dai-1 nuclear plant, and the Japanese government is considering a scheme of spraying resin over the radioactive debris and dust that litters the nuclear complex, in an effort to keep it contained. Meanwhile, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to Japan, said the two countries had agreed to work together to draw up international nuclear safety standards.

Hidehiko Nishiyama, the deputy director general of the Nuclear Industry and Safety Agency (NISA), said Thursday in a morning press briefing that radiation in the seawater sampled on Wednesday 330 meters south of the stricken Dai-1 plant had risen to 4385 times maximum safety levels, a rise from the previous high of 3355 times that was detected on Tuesday. The agency said 180 becquerels per cubic centimeter of radioactive iodine-131 had been detected, as well as increases in cesium.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/iaea-recommends-wider-evacuation-near-japan-page
This is one of my favorite blogs to follow on this one, because they also have a really good timeline that they update whenever anything big happens and pretty good layman's explanation of what went wrong with the plant. This particluar entry has more on the recommended expansion of the evac zone.

 

[Trident]

Horror, horror everywhere - isn't there enough death, dying, and potential for world-wide cancers from Japanese radiation without moving into Libya and other countries? Haven't enough people died in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as our own husbands and sons?

Dear God, how much more death are we supposed to take/allow/live with?

Yeah, I'm also on a rant. The stench of death is more than I want to deal with any more.

 

[not_my_kids]

Japan and the IAEA “share” the assessment that “there is no likelihood of reactor explosion” at the quake-and-tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi civil nuclear plant.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1588464.ece
Not so much on the comforted side.

March 30 - In response to the ongoing situation in Japan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken steps to increase the level of nationwide monitoring of milk, precipitation, drinking water, and other potential exposure routes.
http://www.ksby.com/news/epa-monitoring-radiation-levels-in-milk-water-precipitation/
Rest of EPA press release at link.

Iran's Red Crescent Society (IRCS) plans to send a shipment of 50,000 potassium iodide pills to Japan upon a request from Tokyo, Fars news agency quoted IRCS official Fardin Balouchi as saying.

"After dispatching an aid shipment to Japan, Iran's Red Crescent Society received a request from the country's officials to send 50,000 potassium iodide pills for the Japanese [victims],” Balouchi said.

He said the pills will be used to treat the victims of nuclear radiation from Daiichi Fukushima nuclear plant, which was seriously damaged after northeast Japan was ploughed by a 9.0-magnitude quake on March 11 that triggered a devastating tsunami.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172469.html

 

[Quiche]

I don't know how they can say there will be no explosion! I guess I'd ask, what do you consider an explosion? Because, if there is a meltdown and the core(s) reach the groundwater, what is that, a geyser?

 

[not_my_kids]

I'm more concerned about Tokyo requesting 50,000 KI pills, which only work after exposure. We know that they have been downplaying this as much as possible, and the fact that they will admit to potentially dangerous exposure in that many citizens is, in itself, scary.

 

[Quiche]

Japanese nuclear plant's containment vessels remain suspect as radiation levels spike

Excerpt:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said levels of radioactive iodine in water at the plant spiked to levels 10,000 times permissible limits, preventing workers from getting near the water.

Engineers have been pumping water out of the tunnels in the basements of the facilities and into holding areas in an attempt to permit access to areas where workers are trying to restore electricity to the cooling pumps that could ultimately bring the situation at the stricken facility under control. But they cannot do so when radiation levels are that high.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-japan-reactor-damage-20110331,0,5950026.story

Notice that this article doesn't indicate groundwater, however, further down it indicates a procedure that would definitely have seepage as a risk. jmo

 

[peeples]

I"m sitting here watching the eagle cam and can't stop thinking how beautiful they are.. but how will the radiation affect them...

 

[hockeymom]

Heard a Dr, on Megyn Kelly saying how little radiation in Washington milk is no biggy. Even if the worst case scenario happened and there was a big radation cloud it still wouln't be a big deal. He claimed that was everyone's fear after Chernobyl and there is no proof that cancer rates went up in Europe.(is that true?). He did say he would be concerned if he lived close by in Japan.
I'm sorry,but I just think ingesting any radiation isn't good.

 

[byo]

Interesting information about testing for iodine deficiency.

http://altmedangel.com/iodine.htm