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Mystery Brief Uptick in Gamma Radiation in parts of Western Europe this past week…

March 12, 2012 – California – The 2-year anniversary of the great Tohoku quake, tsunami and nuclear meltdowns came and went… Sometimes my blog stats serve as some type of alert system: when interest in nuclear issues goes up, it … Continue reading

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Recent Earthquake Activity – (World, Japan, Pacific Northwest, Belgium, Europe – Dec 1, 2012)

Portland, Oregon – Dec 1, 2012 – Just for fun: A look at this past month’s Earthquake activity in some of the regions I love. - [Dec 7, 2012 inserted note:  For the more recent 7.3 quake off the coast of Japan, … Continue reading

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Comparison Japan MEXT Fallout Map Cs-137 in UNEP Colors – Higher Resolution

!–>  For a more thorough overview of this summary, see HERE, http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/extended-fukushima-fallout-maps-sept-29-mext-release-fukushima-vs-chernobyl-2/ In one Image:  By request, the MEXT map for Cesium-137 from the Fukushima-Daiichi NPP nuclear disaster + the key to “translate” this map into one using the colors of the … Continue reading

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Radioactive Cesium still being detected in US Milk (68% more than half year ago in SF Bay Area)

★ Boulder, Colorado, USA ★ Feb. 21, 2012 ★ 20:42 hrs ★ Standard Mountain Time ★ It may not amount to much in the big scheme of things (see further below), but a quick look at UC Berkeley’s radiation measurements, http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling, shows that the level of … Continue reading

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Chased by Extreme Weather – I still have a chance to win my Global Cooling bet…

All coincidental for sure, but… that strange year I lived in Park City, UT (a fancy ski town just outside of Salt Lake City), winter seemed borderline eternal.  It may be the times we live in, but “unusual weather” seems … Continue reading

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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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Pacific Rim National Park – A glimpse of beautiful ha’houlthee of the Nuu-chah-nulth – with some ponderings on civilization…

- Shortly before the October 2011 New Moon - Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation – .…  I just returned (to my swell chill pad in Victoria) from a couple spots within the ha’houlthee [chief territories] of the Nuu-chah-nulth [the First Nation “all along … Continue reading

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3 SCALE-MATCHED Radiation Hotspot Maps: Chernobyl vs Fukushima

[5.20.2011 - 9 pm Correction made (see below). Also available now:  VISUAL SUMMARY, see my next blogpost, here] Using the Legends and maps of the previous blogpost, below are a couple comparisons.  100 kilometer on each map is THE SAME: I … Continue reading

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If Chernobyl’s Cesium Fallout were Presented the Fukushima way…

Going on the previous post, I improved my legend to translate one color coded fallout map into another.  Where the range overlaps, I chose the colors approximately in the middle between the two ends.  The result is striking.  If Chernobyl … Continue reading

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Fukushima 2011 versus Chernobyl 1986: a fallout map comparison

One map’s green is another map’s red!  PLEASE  CLICK HERE FOR THE NEWER COMPARISON! –>  more recently updated, and more accurate: ‘Fukushima 2011 versus Chernobyl 1986 - Extended fallout map comparison‘ based on the Sept 29, 2011 MEXT maps.    You … Continue reading

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NNSA hazard map Fukushima Dai-ichi NNP region + Expanded Evacuation Zone

“The U.S. Department of Energy released the estimation as part of a hazard map on cumulative radiation in areas near the Fukushima plant created by an affiliate, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  The hazard map shows that the annual … Continue reading

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List of Nuclear Power Plants with maps

Below are some maps for Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) locations. For the detailed list, including details on each NPP (operational, shut down, planned, capacity, year built, etc.), look this up for any country, Go to http://world-nuclear.org/NuclearDatabase/   [April 11, 2013 Above … Continue reading

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Above or Below “levels of concern”: USA vs. France

Very strange, isn’t it, how “data are data”, yet what they mean differs tremendously depending on who you ask? For instance, the U.S. EPA, in their “Daily Data Summary”, states the damn same thing… pretty much EVERY DAY, without even … Continue reading

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