Tag Archives: radioactivity

My Humble Beginnings of Anti-Nuclear Warriorship for Mother Earth…

April 11, 2013 – Humboldt County, Northern California “Our world is faced with a crisis that has never before been envisaged in its whole existence… The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and … Continue reading

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Why I think Humboldt County California needs Its Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Mapped

April 3, 2013 -  (the shortlink for this blogpost is http://wp.me/puwO9-1Zh ) Every now and then, I try to find more information on how much fallout from the ongoing Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster was actually deposited in far-northern coastal California, in … Continue reading

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Just off Japan Coast (past 24 hours ): A 7.3 (with 1 meter Tsunami), followed by a 6.2 and half dozen 5.0+ Earthquakes. Fukushima NPP temporarily evacuated. No evidence of significantly rising Radiation Levels. (Dec 7, 2012 – 9:45am Pacific Standard Time – Update)

TV News Report: 7.3 Quake Hits Japan, Small Tsunami, Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool Still Standing: The quake was an aftershock of the 9.0 Quake of March 11, 2011 (= Part 1 of my ‘One Year Later’ 2-part overview of the quake, … Continue reading

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Fukushima Radiation Measurements (a Dec 5, 2012 snapshot, for reference, with data sources)

Mad River Tap Room, Blue Lake, CA – Dec 5, 2012 I added another radiation data source to my list of Radiation Monitors in Japan: http://ma-04x.net/all.html h/t: Fukushima Diary‘s Dec. 1, 2012 reporting: ’Radiation level spiked up in west coast of Japan for about … Continue reading

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Has the EPA’s RadNet been Designed as an Obstacle Course? (w/ Post-Fukushima Radiation Data for Eureka, CA)

End of November 2012 — This blog-post-in-the-making was placed on a back-burner.  My “quick search” for regional data quickly turned into “mapping the EPA’s obstacle course”.  This blog post shows what can be found (or, all too often, not) through … Continue reading

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Radiation Monitoring – Overview of Data Sources in the US.

Northern California – November 2, 2012 - This blogpost’s info is from my page US Radiation Monitors, a sub-tab of the (top-bar) ‘Radioactivity’ tab.  For radiation monitors in other countries, see Radiation Monitors Worldwide.  Please contact me if you know good sources.  Thank you. You may also … Continue reading

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Blog Milepost 75,000 Views – Last blogpost rehash – Fukushima News Sources

Last day of May 2012.  Blogpost #311.  I consider this a blogpost of utter public irrelevance. It’s more like a milepost on my blogging path.  A record four comments (ha), 300 direct views in a week of one blogpost (previous … Continue reading

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Fukushima’s Cs-137 is NOT “Four Chernobyls” ! (Russia Today spreading misinformation)

I made a couple edits to my May 6, 2012 overview post, “One year later – Part 2: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi NPP Disaster.”.    Reporting on the issue has been rather confusing.  Earlier today I posted “Fukushima Already Released more … Continue reading

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New Documentary: “Hibakusha – from Hiroshima to Fukushima, Nuclear Capitalism Tries to Rebound”

Documentary Film:  “ Hibakusha – from Hiroshima to Fukushima,  …………………………….   Nuclear Capitalism Tries to Rebound ” This anti-nuclear documentary, ‘Hibakusha’, combines interviews with the victims of the current nuclear disaster with comments from those who survived the bombing of Hiroshima.  (Note: ’hibakusha‘ (被爆者) is a Japanese word … Continue reading

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Radiation Research Society – 14th Report. Low Level Radioactivity More Carcinogenic than previously known.

(Had this in draft all week… Might as well post it):  — Not the most joy-inducing reading material, but a new landmark study of atomic bomb survivors regarding the effects of radioactivity (ionizing radiation), uncovered that the risks for low level … Continue reading

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Radiation Fallout Maps for the United States

[  The shortlink for this blogpost is http://wp.me/puwO9-1od  ] Boulder, CO – May 1, 2012 — For those who’ve been searching for “US fallout map Fukushima”, etc.:  This blogpost aims to give a compilation of United States radioactive fallout maps with their sources, and … Continue reading

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IIDJ offers near-real-time radiation measurements for Japan

I just received a nice a email from the Institute for Information Design Japan (IIDJ), letting me know that the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology started to publish a consolidated record of more than 2000 live observation spots of … Continue reading

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Data of ‘California Slammed with Radiation’, Kept Secret for Nearly a Year

Boulder, CO – not an April fool’s joke – Reported in The Journal Environmental Science and Technology (March 6, 2012), written about on the George Washington Blog (March 30, 2012) with ENENews (March 30, 2012) weighing in, from where it spread to Zero … Continue reading

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One year later – Part 2: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi NPP Disaster.

March 2012. (For Part 1 (Earthquake & Tsunami), SEE HERE) (For additional sources on this topic, also see my page NUCLEAR NEWS LINKS, a sub-tab under the RADIOACTIVITY tab in the black top banner).  For the latest news, I recommend ex-skf.blogspot.com.  Fukushima-Daiichi NPP, likely the world’s worst nuclear … 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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