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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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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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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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NILU abandons Fukushima forecasting: reliable data blackout cited. (The return of Zardoz…)

[May 17 edit: I'm replacing some words with f***ing st*** to see if this takes care of those silly content filters.  I'm getting  emails about "access denied".] >>>  In in this blogpost:  ”Zardoz”, the latest and last NILU fallout forecasts, … Continue reading

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USA predicted fallout next few days – EPA Radnet still terribly inadequate

Norwegian Institute For Air Research:  Radiation Fallout For April 22-25. Check the NILU’s latest forecasts: see their list http://transport.nilu.no/sitemap –> scroll down to products, pick the folder Fukushima: http://transport.nilu.no/products/fukushima  and then you can choose for which radioactive gas/particle to view the forecasts (Xenon-133, … Continue reading

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FDA/EPA: “No Need TO TEST” Pacific fish for radioactivity. Or anything, really…

FDA obviously doesn’t WANT to do testing.  Economic interests (Obama is a nuke dude, Alaska’s fisheries a major economic sector)?   I don’t know man… I don’t know… It’s one thing for an agency to discover they’re totally not ready … Continue reading

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Abode of Peace rises from Fukushima rubble

{At the request of those who want to share the art without the spoofy context I first posted it in (see previous blogpost, which also has the used image sources.) – mvb} Fukushima Daiichi NNP Reactor #4 BEFORE April 19, … Continue reading

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Highest I-131 Radiation Fallout in US from Fukushima: in Utah, Idaho, California and Kansas

[May be outdated] –> more locations, times and isotopes tested by the EPA.  According to precipitation samples collected (they did something! -ha – though it took Socrata to make the data more user-friendly accessible at http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Precipitation-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/e2xy-undq These are Iodine-131 levels detected … Continue reading

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Deepak Chopra & Arnie Gundersen: Nuclear Cautions & Parallels: Fukushima & Indian Point

CHECK Apr 15, 6:00 pm EST (New York-time):   http://fairewinds.com/content/arnie-gundersen-deepak-chopra-friday-april-15th  (GMO and other topics before & after)   http://fairewinds.com/content/arnie-gundersen-deepak-chopra-friday-april-15th CLICK on Image at or after: April 15 6:00pm EST : http://fairewinds.com/content/arnie-gundersen-deepak-chopra-friday-april-15th

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Japanese Citizens turn to independent EU lab: new radiation data

In the 7-page detailed report by ACRO, http://www.acro.eu.org/RAP110411-OCJ-EN.pdf , you can find exact methods used for collecting samples, new data (Data from March 31 show higher than government-reported measurements.) and exact sampling locations:                 … 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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The Becquerel (630,000,000,000,000,000 Becquerels and counting)

Further below I’ll revisit what “1 Becquerel” is. 630 thousand teraBecquerel [much much higher numbers have been released and estimated since]  is the combined radiation from I-131 and Cs-137 released from the Fukushima Daiichi NNP (6 reactors total, 4 with various … Continue reading

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Radionuclide Cs-137 still raining down on US – April 12 update

A month into the Fukushima Daiichi ongoing nuclear disaster, ‘trace’ (–> if I don’t use that word, I get barked at) radioactive fallout continues to sprinkle the population and crops growing in North America, and other places many thousands of … Continue reading

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Greenpeace Team measurements’ Google Map

A Post on the Greenpeace Campaign Blog, ‘Fukushima evacuation zone expanded’ (Blogpost by Jessica Miller – April 11, 2011 at 13:16): http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/fukushima-evacuation-zone-expanded/blog/34196 –> has the link that gives access to their impressive compilation of location- and time-specific radioactivity measurements outside … Continue reading

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