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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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Reported Instability at Fukushima-Daiichi Reactor 2

Noteworthy…  TEPCO has been able to measure radiation for the first time INSIDE the (breached) containment vessel of Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The findings are here (in Japanese):   http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120327_02-j.pdf The findings are extremely highly … 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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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):    (German with English subtitles): The anchor ends with concluding: “Workers, … 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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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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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 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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A little Elaboration on my Cesium-137/134 Fallout Color-Legends “Translation Legend”

[-Oct 3, 2011 - CAUTIONING NOTE- In several cases I erroneously "compared apples and oranges"- so to speak-, namely maps with fallout of BOTH Cesium 134 and 137 with maps that ONLY show Cesium 137 fallout.  The comparison is thus … 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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Strontium-90 Detected in Waters Near Fukushima Power Plant

Off to the beach! Details about Strontium-90 further below.  Five-days old news, but thought I’d mention it anyhow, by way of Korean Global TV news agency ‘Arirang’ (May 10, 2011):   http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=115777&code=Ne8&category=1    Click on the image to watch or … 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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Friday the 13th: Fukushima Gloominess spells Doom

This is a long-overdue overview.  (And so sorry, it’s not cursive.) Bloomberg 5/12/2011:   “Tokyo Electric Power Co. said one of the reactor cores at its stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is more seriously damaged than previously thought, setting back the utility’s plan … Continue reading

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Radioactivity – March 19 vs. May 1, 2011 – map comparison – Deutschland

The only specs on the map where radiation levels are adequately monitored are a few countries in Europe (Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Finland), with Germany having the most user-friendly online interface.  A comparison between a screenshot taken of … Continue reading

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“The glass is already half full” — […Fukushima Reactor # 1 gets 6 tons water / day)

So, the situation at Reactor 1 of  ”the Blessed Island – the second*” NNP (this is the reactor (strangely, as #2 and #4 have received much more attention) mentioned in the “US-assisted  drills” for “worst case scenario contingency planning: see HERE), … Continue reading

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