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This is a MUST SEE video report from Fairewinds.com on what’s really happening in Japan:
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Had you read this description of what actually happened during one of the Fukushima reactor explosions ANYWHERE in the USA mainstream media?
UK Nuclear Expert: “There were a huge number of spent fuel rods sitting on top of the reactor, so when it exploded, and everybody saw it exploding, all those fuel rods went up in the air. And as we now know, it has melted down.”
Tokyo has a population of approx 35 million people
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3.31 2011 Update:
ALERT: Dangerous levels of radiation are now escaping the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and in Tokyo and northeastern Japan residents are being warned to stay indoors on 3.31.2011, and NOT to drink the tap water, or bathe in it. There is such a scarcity of news on this issue in the USA that I would venture to call it a virtual “news blackout” on how much radiation is now passing over the continental US. The weather website WoWeather.com indicates that plumes reaching US shores and washing over the mainland have tiny to negligible levels of radioactive material.
But those living in Japan near the Fukushima Plant, up to a 50 mile radius at least, should remain indoors on 3.31.2011.
Go to these links on the www.woweather.com international weather forecasting site to see up to the minute jet stream flows for airborne Iodine-131 and Caesium-137:
ALERT: For those in Japan stay indoors on 3.31.11 due to dangerous radiation plume from Fukushima plant.
http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=niludmanc131&HH=0
http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=niludmanc137&HH=0&LOOP=1
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This heart wrenching report by citizen journalist Johah70757 will cut your soul in pieces to watch, but I had to post it. Japan is evacuating, and as Jonah tries to report on what is happening he comes unglued. The situation at Fukushima nuclear plant is apparently now irretrievable and people are being advised to NOT drink any water in Tokyo and Jonah states that everyone is now leaving, or trying to leave.
Please pray that everyone who is able can get out of Japan as soon as humanly and divinely possible. Pray for Japan!!
Chase
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The Fukushima Prefecture
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News from Japan about the progress of the clean up after recent Fukushima tsunami related nuclear accidents and explosions is mixed, and often conflicting. Here is the latest, compiled from diverse sources. This post will be updated throughout the day, so visit the page and reload for the latest news.
Radiation Levels in Japanese Seawater Spike Off Coast of Fukushima
Radiation Levels Rise at Fukushima As Government States Situation is Stable
Radiation Levels Up, Japanese Government Reveals Missteps
French Nuclear Expert Discusses Possibility of Total Meltdown at Fukushima
Earlier News Report From Right After the First Explosions – Note Commentary!
radiation forecasting links:
http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=webcam&SA…
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/
http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html
http://www.epa.gov (click on radiation update)
http://www.irsn.fr/EN/Pages/home.aspx
http://www.nucleartourist.com/
http://www.stuk.fi/index_en.html
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/detail/1303962.htm
http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/index.html
http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/
http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P867_02.html
http://www.mapion.co.jp/topics/genpatu/
http://strahlenbelastung.wo-wann-wer.de/
dutch radiation monitoring:
http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/
swiss radiation monitoring:
https://www.naz.ch/en/aktuell/zeitverlaeufe.html
Finland radiation monitoring:
http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P160_01.html
http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P867_02.html
French radiation monitoring: (thanks to youtube user: RehKurts ! )
http://sws.irsn.fr/sws/mesure/index
http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Documents/france.htm
jet stream forecasting:
http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/CT/animate.arctic.color.0.html
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/tropicalwx/satpix/nwpac_ir4_loop.php
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250
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Nuclear Fuel Rods
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Alert: Listen very carefully to the narration of this first video clip. This Japanese news anchor is referring to exposed spent nuclear fuel rods, and the steam is rising from the pools where those rods are located in at least 4 locations. The US news media has now moved on to other stories, but this story IS NOT OVER. The danger for clouds of radioactive steam, mixed with weather precipitation, to float over the USA via the jet stream, in successive waves, over days to come, is not over. Here is the video clip:
Neutron Beams Observed 13 Times At Fukushima Complex
Image via Wikipedia
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The Daily Yomiuri is an english language Twitter news feed from Japan that steadily updates on post disaster conditions, the water quality in Tokyo, possible irradiated foods, and other urgent breaking news that affects public health and safety for the Japanese people and for American news media outlets who are still covering the post quake environment. Below is their twitter feed from the past 24 hours. If you have friends or relatives who are still in Japan, or if you just want to stay abreast of actual timely news on what is happening, you can subscribe to the Daily Yomiuri twitter feed here.
Diagram: How Fuel Rods Work
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There have now been a total of four devastating explosions at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant north of Tokyo since the 9.0 earthquake late last Thursday in Japan. Radiation leakage has been confirmed, and the threat of radiation poisoning to people in the surrounding region is growing more serious by the hour.
Here are gathered facts and reports coming out of Japan as of early 3.15.11. These reports are from various international media sources, however the Canadian website for Globe and Mail has compiled the most timely information, for which I am deeply grateful. I have re-posted numerous items from their info-pages on radiation and the health of the human body. I am also advising readers to get familiar with live maps of the Pacific Jet Stream to observe how it blows over the continental USA.
it is now confirmed that radiation is leaking into the atmosphere in Japan. Here’s the link: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/15/japanese-nuclear-panic-rises-agency-says-radiation-leaking-atmosphere/
Also, we are learning that iodine tablets are sold out at online locations everywhere, and by the grace of God, another reasonable sized dose of POTASSIUM IODIDE, which is the type of iodine you would need to fight radiation sickness, occurs built into doses of SOLARAY Brand Twice Daily Multi-Vitamins. So if you cannot procure iodine tablets, stock up on this brand of multi-vitamin as an alternative. The dose may be small, but it is at least getting some of the right kind of iodine into your system.
Watch these videos:
3.13.11 Breaking: Japan Faces Nuclear Disaster As Radiation Levels Rise
Cited from the New York Times 3.14.11 1149 pm, Breaking Info:
“After an emergency cabinet meeting, the Japanese government told people living within 30 kilometers, about 18 miles, of the Daiichi plant to stay indoors, keep their windows closed and stop using air conditioning.
Mr. Kan, whose government was extraordinarily weak before the sequence of calamities struck the nation, told the Japanese people that “although this incident is of great concern, I ask you to react very calmly.” And in fact, there seemed to be little panic, but huge apprehension in a country where the drift of radioactivity brings up memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the haunting images of post-war Japan.
The two critical questions over the next day or so are how much radioactive material is spewed into the atmosphere, and where the winds carry it. Readings reported on Tuesday showed a spike of radioactivity around the plant that made the leakage categorically worse than in had been, with radiation levels measured at one point as high as 400 millisieverts an hour. Even 7 minutes of exposure at that level will reach the maximum annual dose that a worker at an American nuclear plant is allowed. And exposure for 75 minutes would likely lead to acute radiation sickness.
The extent of the public health risk depends on how long such elevated levels persist — they may have declined after the fire at No. 4 reactor was extinguished — as well as how far and fast the radioactive materials spread, and whether the limited evacuation plan announced by the government proves sufficient.
In Tokyo, 170 miles south of the plant, the metropolitan government said Tuesday it had detected radiation levels 20 times the usual above the city, though it stressed that that level posed no immediate health threat. In Ibaraki Prefecture, just south of Fukushima Prefecture where the plant is located, the amount of radiation reached 100 times the usual levels.”
Radiation can target many parts of the body. Symptoms vary, with severity depending on dosage or length of exposure
The Risks of Radiation Exposure
Radiation’s Effect Depends on the Amount of Exposure
Cited: “Japanese authorities warned Wednesday morning that they believed that the population living in the area immediately surrounding the stricken nuclear reactors now faced a health risk from further increases in radiation leaks.
Authorities said that radiation levels there had surged to levels that will “clearly have impact on the human body.”
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12732015
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from homes near Fukushima.
There have been two explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, following Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, and a third reactor is reportedly at risk of fuel-rod meltdown.
How great a danger do these problems pose for people in Japan and further afield?
Has there been a leakage of radioactive material?
Yes. Local government officials in Fukushima say 190 people have been exposed to some radiation. An American warship, the USS Ronald Reagan, has detected low levels of radiation at a distance of 100 miles (161km) from the Fukushima plant.
How much radioactive material has escaped?
The Japanese authorities say only low levels of radiation have been detected outside the plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency has described it as a level four event on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), which is used for an accident “with local consequences”. No abnormal levels of radiation have been detected in Russia.
What type of radioactive material has escaped?
There are reports of radioactive isotopes of caesium and iodine in the vicinity of the plant. Experts say it would be natural for radioactive isotopes of nitrogen and argon to have escaped as well. There is no evidence that any uranium or plutonium has escaped.
What harm do these radioactive materials cause?
Radioactive iodine could be harmful to young people living near the plant. After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster there were some cases of thyroid cancer as a result. However, people who were promptly issued with iodine tablets ought to be safe. Radioactive caesium, uranium and plutonium are harmful, but do not target any particular organ of the body. Radioactive nitrogen decays within seconds of its release, and argon poses no threat to health.
How did the radioactive materials escape?
There have been problems with cooling systems, causing the reactors to overheat. Production of steam has caused pressure to build up inside the reactor, so small amounts of steam have been deliberately released. Experts say that the presence in the steam of caesium and iodine – which are among the by-products of nuclear fission – suggests that the metal casing of some of the fuel rods has melted or broken. But the uranium fuel itself has a very high melting point so it is less likely to have melted, let alone vapourised.
Could radioactive materials have escaped by any other means?
The authorities have pumped sea water into three reactors. This water will be contaminated by its passage through the reactor, but it is currently unclear whether any of it has been released into the environment.
How long will any contamination last?
Radioactive iodine decays quite quickly. Most will have disappeared within a month. Radioactive caesium does not last long in the body – most has gone within a year. However, it lingers in the environment and can continue to present a problem for many years.
Has there been a meltdown?
The term “meltdown” is used in a variety of ways. As noted above, the reported detection of radioactive caesium and iodine may indicate that some of the metal casing enclosing the reactors’ uranium fuel has melted (a “fuel-rod meltdown”). However, there is as yet no indication that the uranium fuel itself has melted. Still less is there any indication of a “China Syndrome” where the fuel melts, gathers below the reactor and resumes a chain reaction, that enables it to melt everything in its way, and bore a path deep into the earth. If there were to be a serious meltdown, the Japanese reactor is supposed to be able to handle it, preventing the China Syndrome from taking place. Reports suggest that underneath the reactor, within the outer containment vessel, there is a concrete basin designed to capture and disperse any molten fuel.
Could there be a Chernobyl-like disaster?
Experts say this is highly unlikely. The chain reaction at all Fukushima reactors has ceased. The explosions that have occurred have taken place outside the steel and concrete containment vessels enclosing the reactors, which apparently remain solid. At Chernobyl an explosion exposed the core of the reactor to the air, and a fire raged for days sending its contents in a plume up into the atmosphere. At Fukushima the explosions – caused by hydrogen and oxygen vented from the reactor – have damaged only the roof and walls erected around the containment vessels.
Could there be a nuclear explosion?
No. A nuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor are different things.
What caused the hydrogen release from the reactor?
At high temperatures, steam can separate into hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of zirconium, the metal used for encasing the reactor fuel. This mixture is highly explosive.
How do iodine tablets work?
If the body has all the iodine it needs, it will not absorb further iodine from the atmosphere. The tablets fill the body up with non-radioactive iodine, which prevent it absorbing the radioactive iodine.
What kind of radiation levels have been recorded at Fukushima?
The Kyodo news agency reports that a radiation level of 1,557 microsieverts per hour was registered on Sunday. At this level, one hour’s exposure is roughly equivalent to one chest X-ray. Later measurements included 750 microsieverts per hour at 0200 on Monday, and 20 microsieverts per hour at 1145. The last of these measurements is not much to worry about – on a long-haul flight passengers are exposed to about five microsieverts per hour. Furthermore, moving away from the source of radiation, measurements would quickly tail off. Five or 10km away from the plant, the radiation level would be significantly lower.
Is any level of exposure to radiation safe?
In some parts of the world, natural background radiation is significantly higher than others – for example in Cornwall, in south-west England. And yet people live in Cornwall, and many others gladly visit the area. Similarly, every international air flight exposes passengers to higher than normal levels of radiation – and yet people still fly, and cabin crews spend large amounts of time exposed to this radiation. Patients in hospitals regularly undergo X-rays. Scientists dispute whether any level of exposure to radiation is entirely safe, but exposure to some level of radiation – whether at normal background levels or higher – is a fact of life.
How do Fukushima’s problems affect the rest of the world?
It depends on how much radiation is released. At present, the IAEA says the effects are of a “local” nature.
The Globe’s east Asia correspondent witnesses Japanese residents tested for radiation after fears of leaks at nearby nuclear plant
Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 1:04AM EDT
Radiation can target many parts of the body. Symptoms vary, with severity depending on dosage or length of exposure
Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 12:47AM EDT
The updated size of Japan’s earthquake ties it with a 1952 quake in Russia as the fourth strongest on record. The strongest ever recorded was in Valdivia, Chile, in 1960, hitting a magnitude of 9.5
Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 12:25AM EDT
Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 12:25AM EDT
Explosion at earthquake-hit nuclear plant in Japan has sparked fears of a radiation leak and nuclear meltdown
Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 12:23AM EDT
Sunday, Mar. 13, 2011 10:10PM EDT
In these file photos released Dec. 30, 2004 by DigitalGlobe, the shoreline of Banda Aceh in Indonesia is shown on June 23, 2004, above, and Dec. 28, 2004, below, after a tsunami hit the region.
Sunday, Mar. 13, 2011 9:49AM EDT
The Globe’s east Asia correspondent witnesses Japanese residents tested for radiation after fears of leaks at nearby nuclear plant
Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 8:04PM EST
Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 11:18AM EST
Scientists say the massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan ranks as the fifth largest jolt in the world since 1900.
Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 6:03PM EST
The Globe’s Mark MacKinnon reports on his undercover visit to Myanmar.
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