Tag Archives: Daiichi

Fundraiser Postcard to visit Japan in 2013 (+ Blog Turned One Year)

March 14, 2012  - Today a year ago, I dug up this blog, which had just been sitting there collecting cyber dust. It was briefly used while traveling in 2009, after which I deleted the posts.   Last year I began … Continue reading

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Cesium-137 fallout map comparison Chornobyl vs. Fukushima – new color-translated map added

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 23, 2011 (stuck here due to Belgian rail strike) !!!–> I finally added the Cecium-137-only Fukushima fallout map in Chornobyl Cs-137 fallout UNEP legend colors to my ‘Extended Fukushima Fallout Maps – Sept 29 MEXT Release. Fukushima … Continue reading

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Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Fukushima meltdown / melt-through / China Syndrome

The above video is from December 13, 2011.  On May 17, I had a blogpost “China Syndrome” possible at Fukushima Daiichi #1 ???, to which this Video by Arnie Gundersen may add nuance.

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Japan Ministry finally makes Fukushima fallout map like mine! (sorta…)

Oct 27, 2011 – Victoria, BC, Canada-occupied territories. I had a “No way! Finally!” moment…   Tada!: Grey scale going from light to dark and legend colors that make sense, look at that!   I doubt I have anything to … Continue reading

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German TV ZDF with Fukushima-Daiichi workers (from Oct 4)

From 10 days ago, but noteworthy:  ZDF program on the ‘heroic workers’ working in extremely high radioactive conditions in the Fukushima-Daiichi ruins (broadcasted in Germany on Oct. 4, 2011):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1T4Ac9nHeY (German with English subtitles): The anchor ends with concluding: “Workers, who … Continue reading

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Extended Fukushima Fallout Maps – Sept 29 MEXT Release. Fukushima vs. Chernobyl – 2

The shortlink for this blogpost is http://wp.me/puwO9-SB This blog post shows my expanded/improved “map translations” comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl fallout, improved from my earlier attempt to do so, posted in May 2011 (not as good, but it was the original, which includes more … Continue reading

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ECRR Recommendations translated to Japanese

The Japanese translation of 2010 ECRR (European Commission on Radiation Risk) Recommendations has been published by Mihama No Kai, see: here [requires Japanese script being installed].   In Japanese:  http://www.jca.apc.org/mihama/ecrr/ecrr2010_dl.htm In English: http://euradcom.org/2010/2010recommendations.htm   Overview and Resources in English/French/Russian/Japanese/Spanish, see: http://euradcom.org/2003/order.htm This is an important … Continue reading

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Radioactive Cesium in US milk Sept 2011 Update: Slight Improvement?

— Vashon Island, WA – Sept 8, 2011 —  [8/29 add-on: nevermind, Cesium-137 content in Bay Area milk went back up since: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2174 :-/  If they took the permanent link down again, try http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling%5D Given Cesium-137 has a half-life of about 30 … Continue reading

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Radiation hotspots as far south as Tokyo

I may have abandoned frequent updates on the (ongoing) Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear reactors disaster, but since I still get quite a number of visitors checking out my fallout contamination comparison map of Fukushima versus Chernobyl (from May 19, 2011), I want to … Continue reading

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Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster = 20+ Hiroshima nuclear bombs

“Based on the thermal output, it is 29.6 times the amount released by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.   Based on Uranium-equivant it is 20 Hiroshima bombs”  - Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the Radioisotope Center at the University of … Continue reading

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June 10 Fukushima update from DN!

Democracy Now!’s recent overview update:  http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/10/as_japan_nuclear_crisis_worsens_citizen

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Background Radiation DOSE & fallout deposits’ ACTIVITY… – What’s the calculation trick?

You know what I am truly curious about?  How dose rates (in µSv/hr for instance) actually can be used, if at all, to gauge the dangers of deposited fallout (whose accurate details would be in activity (in Becquerel or Curie) per something, … Continue reading

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REUTERS: Record Radiation Levels at Fukushima

REUTERS – (June 5, 2011): highest measurements taken inside reactor 1:  4,000,000 µSv/hr (= 4,000 mSv/hr (used in the report) or 4 Sv/hr.) SOURCE (click link or image to access):  http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/06/05/record-radiation-levels-at-fukushima?videoId=211536077   

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The Fukushima Project – data page [plus something that might help us forget...]

Stumbled upon this data compilation page: http://www.houseoffoust.com/reactors/graphs.html  Which includes temperature and radiation graphs for the troubled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.  Like this one (Notice: Sievert per hour, not milli or micro).  CLICK IMAGE TO ACCESS: This came to … Continue reading

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Background radiation in Park City, Doel, Tokyo & Hell

[added 6.6.'11:  The post below has lead to this latest question-blogpost (couple blogposts later), which might be of interest:  http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/dose-activity-question-re-fallout-gauging/ ] Gorgeous sunny day, spring at last.  The weather’s too nice to spend much time online, but… [no no, no but, … Continue reading

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