Monthly Archives: May 2011

Hardware delay – part 2… (+ PC is a gamma heaven, says my Scout)

Second key part of adaptor cord wasn’t included.  Grrrr.  My bad.  Hopefully by the weekend.  I’m starting to miss my prefered way to pass time after work…  Wiggling it stopped doing the trick… :-/ The Geiger Counter I had ordered … Continue reading

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100 kBq/Kg Seaweed confirmed

Over 100,000 Bq/Kg in seaweed off the eastern coast of Japan… The below is a good overview article, making lots of observations that have been made for months by independent investigators (Arnie Gundersen, Ex-NFK, Greenpeace – see my list of NUCLEAR … Continue reading

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Welcome, my friend… Welcome to the Totalitarian High-Tech Nightmare.

A roundup of recent news snippets:  - Washington: House Approves Military Spending Bill  - AP - May 26, 2011  - The House on Thursday approved a $690 billion defense bill that limits President Obama’s authority on reducing nuclear weapons and deciding what to do with … Continue reading

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Greenpeace finds troubling seaweed contamination + lab link

May 13, 2011:  ”Initial tests of the 22 seaweed samples collected by Greenpeace along the coast North and South of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and up to 65km out to sea by its flag ship Rainbow Warrior registered … Continue reading

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Radiation Units page finally done (I think)

Finally incorporated the Curie and the Becquerel in –> my comprehensive Radiation Units page.   This post actually has its own static page (RADIOACTIVITY (top bar right) –> Radiation Units (5 down)).  If you spot an error, please leave a comment (see the … Continue reading

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IODINE-131 a basic map comparison: Fukushima versus Chernobyl

Similarly to what I did to compare Chernobyl and Fukushima as far as the fallout maps for radioactive Cesium (137, 134)  (SEE HERE for the radioactive Cesium maps and those comparison basics), what follows is a basic comparison for I-131′s … Continue reading

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Going Radio-Lactose-Intollerant

In Judo, I never cared enough to go beyond green, but at least I have now graduated to a black belt in coffee drinking.   A little white splash of radioactive Fukushima I-131 or Cs-137 in my half-’n-half didn’t bother … Continue reading

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Fukushima DRY WELL Dose measurements: Unit 1: Instrument Failure. /// Unit 2: 25 minutes and you’re dead.

First, this is “kinda cool”, a visual time-lapse tour through DOSE measurements in Japan from March 11 through May 11, 2011 (see right below, click on image to see, or here).  On a side-note, dose measurements can be useful to … Continue reading

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MSM so delayed it’s almost slapstick…

…impatient as I can get I wiggled the power cord fo’-evah…  and if I now manage not to move…  … so I can finish the complementary blogpost I had started putting together last weekend:  a map comparisson for I-131 for Fukushima … Continue reading

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I’d rather be blogging.

Quick note from work. Oh darn Apples…  Such awesome computers, yet such weak adapter power cords…  Just beyond the 1 yr warranty… 14 months and already in need of replacement.  MothaF… No blogposts until new one arrives (already shipped). Before the de … Continue reading

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Iodine-131: two months later, the monkey comes out of the sleeve…

“Now the monkey comes out of the sleeve” is a direct translation of the Dutch expression “nu komt de aap uit de mouw“, actually meaning: now the truth is being revealed.  Don’t ask me where this originated…   :-) Thanks … Continue reading

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Fukushima News

As I’ve gotten a little jaded on the topic 2 months in,  I rarely actually check my own list of Radioactivity and Japan/Fukushima News Sources.   I often only check these two: Ex-SKK and Rense.   The Japanese blogger who runs … Continue reading

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May 21 – Random Walk Through Cyber Park

Park City, UT (USA) — Totally irrelevant blogpost.  It’s gorgeous out (party clouded in fact, and a whopping… 55 degrees Fahrenheit). Danced my ass off on Main Street last night and finally caught up on sleep for the week, I … Continue reading

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Snow Cover over North America – May 20, 2011

Just rubbing it into my own face. For not being into winter sports (whatsoever, save the occasional snow shoeing, perhaps.), I live in “the wrong town”…   SOURCE: (un-annotated) image: NOAA [Click image to access their overview page] No I … Continue reading

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Map comparison Visual Summary

To conclude the series of blogposts on the topic of comparing the color-maps of Cesium fallout levels from Chernobyl with the map showing this for Fukushima’s ongoing nuclear disaster, here’s my visual summary:

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