That's the message the Japanese Government wants you to have. So in keeping with
the Happy, Wish, Fun time message, the Theme of this Diary is "Don't worry".
If you are one of the people who has to hear the happy news, please stop reading.
Just put on a Pink Ladyalbum and think happy thoughts.
Meanwhile....
Radiation higher then Evacuation limit 4 times further then actual evacuation area.
In the Spirit of Happy Good Thoughts, Some Cranky Old Professor who means nothing
because of course this guy is merely some guy in Japan and not somebody
important in the Government says he's surprised by the extent of the contamination
http://www.asahi.com/...
The first map of ground surface contamination within 80 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shows radiation levels higher in some municipalities than those in the mandatory relocation zone around the Chernobyl plant.
The map, released May 6, was compiled from data from a joint aircraft survey undertaken by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy.
It showed that a belt of contamination, with 3 million to 14.7 million becquerels of cesium-137 per square meter, spread to the northwest of the nuclear plant.
After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, those living in areas with more than 555,000 becquerels of cesium-137 per square meter were forced to relocate. However, the latest map shows that accumulated radioactivity exceeded this level at some locations outside the official evacuation zones, including the village of Iitate and the town of Namie.
"I am surprised by the extent of the contamination and the vast area it covers," said Tetsuji Imanaka, assistant professor of nuclear engineering at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute. "This (map) will be useful in planning evacuation zones as well as the decontamination of roads and public facilities."
The map was made with data showing the amount of accumulated radioactive substances across a grid comprising 1 to 2 km boxes. The measurements were taken between April 6 and April 29.
So for a month the DoE and Japanese Government has been sitting on Data that
this was 6-30 times worse then the contamination at Chernobyl.
and that any diaries calling for a 100 KM evacuation zone were merely wrong thoughts.
Who could have known the Japanese Government was sitting on the SPEEDI simulations
that were showing enormous potential releases
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
What is, really, the point of telling us now? To say... what? They're sorry that they didn't tell you about the simulation when the radioactive materials were coming at 10,000 terabecquerels/hour and they knew it but were afraid people would freak out? I suppose the people in the administration and in the government would rather have a significant increase in cancer and other illnesses several decades down the line, because by that time they may be no longer in the government or no longer in this world.
No Maps like this andthis
Professor Toshiso Kosako, who quit the job as the PM's special advisor in protest of the government response to the Fukushima I accident, said in his resignation statement that there was another program called WSPEEDI, which can cover much wider area ("several thousand kilometers", according to Professor Kosako). WSPEEDI can probably cover the entire Japan (except for outlying islands).
The Japanese government is still sitting on WSPEEDI simulations, if any exists as Professor Kosako says.
No we should ignore Kosako because he's just some guy.
However, In the Spirit of Good thoughts, one can be utterly calm that no matter
what some Guy says, this is still no worse then Chernobyl because this is only a
Level 7 disaster and the Scale only goes to Level 7.
One should take maximum comfort that the Japanese government was ordering a
30 KM evacuation zone and that this was just the right exact amount, after all they would have told everyone.
http://www.baycitizen.org/...
Now, less than two months after the nuclear disaster began to unfold, the EPA is abandoning most of its additional radiation monitoring activities. Recent monitoring has continued to detect the radiation in the North American environment, though at declining levels.
“Due to the consistent decrease in radiation levels across the country associated with the Japanese nuclear incident,” the agency said in a statement Thursday, “EPA has returned to the routine RadNet sampling and analysis process for precipitation, drinking water and milk.”
That means that the agency will return to testing radiation levels in rainwater, drinking water and milk every three months. The next such tests are planned in August.
Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/...)
and after all we should utterly ignore Some Guy who is complaining.
“I really am horrified,” said Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “It’s quite staggering and it seems to be part of the pattern of the EPA trying to make sure that there are no measurements that could cause people to be concerned.”
Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/...)
and we should all take good heart in the media silence at Fukushima.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I have also watched as the news has virtually disappeared. There is something extremely disturbing going on, and having lived through the media blackout in France back in April and early May 1986,,,,,
t, access has been limited in two ways. First, while Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano Yukio holds twice daily press conferences for representatives of the big Japanese media, registered representatives of freelance and internet media are limited to a single press conference per week. Second, in contrast to Japanese media who are briefed regularly by Edano and periodically by Prime Miniser Kan, foreign media are briefed exclusively by administrative staff.
Uesugi also notes that at TEPCO press conferences, which are now being held at company headquarters, foreign correspondents and Japanese freelancers regularly ask probing questions while mainstream journalists simply record and report company statements reiterating that the situation is basically under control and there is nothing to worry about. One reason for this, Uesugi suggests, is that TEPCO, a giant media sponsor, has an annual 20 billion yen advertising budget. "The media keeps defending the information from TEPCO!" "The Japanese media today is no different from the wartime propaganda media that kept repeating to the very end that 'Japan is winning the war against America,'" Uesugi exclaimed.
We should take absolute heart in the fact the Japanese major media are not reporting any bad news. That should be very comforting to the people and ignore that
funny metallic taste in your throat, we are sure that isn't plutonium
the problem is that the reactor uses “dirty” fuel. It is a combination of plutonium and uranium (MOX).
I suspect that the old fuel rods have bean [sic] spread out due to the explosion and the surrounding area is contaminated with plutonium which means you can never return to this place again.
No, and those clouds coming off of the Reactors, one should ignore the
mass flow and concentrate on how pretty they are and not worry what may be in
those clouds.
After all, the workers have plenty of Dosimeters and protection
http://www.japantoday.com/...
‘‘I was finally issued with a radiation dosimeter on my fourth day of work there,’’ he was quoted as saying.
and we can take special comfort in the news from the opening of Unit 1
http://enenews.com/...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on Monday detected radiation levels in the building housing the faltering No. 1 reactor that far exceeded expected levels reaching as high as 700 millisieverts per hour, the utility firm said. [...]
After all, we know that the Radiation levels could be much worse and
at this mere level, we think there is no chance Rac 1 is breached.
and we should take absolute comfort that this wasn't a worst case incident.
http://enenews.com/...
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency assumed that the failure to vent the steam could increase pressure inside the container to three times the design limit by 11 p.m. on March 12. The high pressure would break the container [...]
nope, and anyone who says this is a worst case incident is just some fear monger
trying to short Japanese Stock and Real Estate and should be shunned.
after all
This event didn't occur until 3:36 PM, and that's 4 and a half hours after the predicted
worst case event.
and we should all be glad no evacuations to the west coast were conducted
http://enenews.com/...
Leaks of radioactive materials from fuel rods have been suspected at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, the Fukui prefectural government said Monday, citing a rise in density of the toxic substances in coolant water. [...]
According to Japan Atomic, 4.2 becquerels of iodine-133 and 3,900 becquerels of xenon gas were detected per cubic centimeter Monday, up from 2.1 and 5.2 becquerels, respectively, during previous measurements conducted last Tuesday.
But we know that nothing could be wrong at Tsuruga, because there are
multiple layers of containment
http://www.dailykos.com/...
and that no way Radioactive Xenon gets out past those 4 layers of containment,
so we should all sing kumbaya.
And absolutely not tellBad Jokes.
and we should tell the little kids of Japan to go to sleep dreaming of beautiful glowing
Squid