How radioactive are people from Tokyo?

I'm sure this would have happened sooner or later, but employees from the Tokyo office of the multinational corporation I work for are starting to visit the home office where I work.

I stood near a fellow employee who moved to Tokyo months before the earthquake/tsunami. He still lives in Tokyo. I stood around him for a couple of minutes in the office to greet him and welcome him back to the states for his short visit. I didn't mention the earthquake, tsunami or Fukushima at all, because I briefly discussed it with him the same day it happened and with all of the disaster, including Fukushima, he wasn't planning on leaving Tokyo so I didn't want to push the idea. He's pretty die-hard gaijin, plus my company is pretending all is well, so...

I may sound extremely paranoid here, but could my brief contact with him in the office cause radiation sickness in me? I don't feel so good tonight. I had a little stomach discomfort, a small headache and I was more tired than usual.

My real question is: After three months of drinking radioactive tap-water and food from Japan, how radioactive are people who live there now, and do they pose a threat to anyone outside of Japan if they travel to other countries?

Originally posted by windwaker
I'm sure this would have happened sooner or later, but employees from the Tokyo office of the multinational corporation I work for are starting to visit the home office where I work.

I stood near a fellow employee who moved to Tokyo months before the earthquake/tsunami. He still lives in Tokyo. I stood around him for a couple of minutes in the office to greet him and welcome him back to the states for his short visit. I didn't mention the earthquake, tsunami or Fukushima at all, because I briefly discussed it with him the same day it happened and with all of the disaster, including Fukushima, he wasn't planning on leaving Tokyo so I didn't want to push the idea. He's pretty die-hard gaijin, plus my company is pretending all is well, so...

I may sound extremely paranoid here, but could my brief contact with him in the office cause radiation sickness in me? I don't feel so good tonight. I had a little stomach discomfort, a small headache and I was more tired than usual.

My real question is: After three months of drinking radioactive tap-water and food from Japan, how radioactive are people who live there now, and do they pose a threat to anyone outside of Japan if they travel to other countries?

Are you saying the japanese have some sort of tolerance to radiation that westerners dont? He wouldn't be making you sick if he had that much radiation in him since he would most likely be pretty damn ill himself and not travelling around the world.

reply to post by topherman420


Good point. I guess he's okay then. He's not a secret radiation bomb...I guess.

I want to ask if if he has experienced unusual symptoms, but it's not appropriate to talk about Fukushima at work. Even though he may look okay, he may be hiding discomfort or may have experienced some in the last month or so.

Even if he isn't visibly sick he still could be emitting radiation from his internal organs.

reply to post by windwaker


Disturbing isn't it? Not your friend, but the down play of the seriousness of this tragedy. Your friend is of
no danger to you as long as he/she have been scrubbed down, are wearing clean clothes, and do not present
you with any materials form their point of origin. Your main concern should be if your friend is consuming
preventative dietary supplements to protect their own health. You should mention this to them in an un assuming
and un offensive way if the opportunity arises.

This is my humble advice to you.

reply to post by Wildmanimal


Another co-worker in a cubicle next to me asked a woman who works at my company if the Tokyo employee was staying for good. The woman asked "Why?" The co-worker said "Obviously, because of the earthquake and tsunami."

In a cheerful but put-on voice the woman replied "No...They are rebuilding." That's when I knew that that woman was truly insane and I would not ask her to go out with me for lunch for coffee or soup.

I work with some head-in-the-clouds, stupid people. Gee-zus.

its not head in the clouds... its the Japanese way.

if you fail to understand their way, how have you survived this long there?

the Japanese do not express their concerns. especially if it may be seen to denigrate people who may be working to fix the issue.
that would cause them to lose face, and be of embarrassment to the speaker.

you're own fear and trepidation will only be seen as gaijin behaviour and ignored.

ganbare!

reply to post by windwaker


Yes, don't we all. It is not their fault either really. We have been groomed for everything to be decorated
with a bow on top and the remainder to be all warm and fuzzy comfort.

Reason being, that collective conscience thinking negatively, produces negative results.

We really dont want that now do we?

So influencing populations to think positively (even if it is not exactly truth,) is really the lesser of

two evils. Be kind to you friends if while you have the power to do so.

reply to post by okamitengu


To not be strong enough to admit weakness, is a sign of weakness.

Surely not all Japanese people have forgotton this humble truth.

Your Samarai Warriors knew that losing face, was nothing more than being strong enough to remove a mask.

Foolish Pride blocks our way from the truth;

We all lose our masks in the face of nature and our inevitable departure. Wildmanimal

reply to post by okamitengu


Oh no, sorry. I'm not in or from Japan. I live in New York City. Our company home office is in New York City.

And the woman who denied any problems in Japan was also from New York City and not Japanese, by the way.

"Head In The Clouds" regarding Fukushima is a global phenomenon, unfortunately.

Originally posted by windwaker
Even if he isn't visibly sick he still could be emitting radiation from his internal organs.

Yeah, but not enough to affect you.

As long as he took a shower and got all the external radiation off his skin, his handshake isn't going to affect you much. Now if you engaged in an intimate hug/embrace for hours or days at a time, his internal radiaion might start affecting you, if he had any. Not saying you'd do that, just saying that's what it would take to get any significant exposure, so that's why you don't have to worry.

One thing I'd be wary of is drinking any breast milk from any lactating Japanese women, if they've had significant exposure in the fallout zone. That's one way their internal radiation could be transferred to another person, possibly.

All that advice is serious.

But this isn't, if he looks anything like the guy on the right in this picture who glows in the dark, stay away!


www.dailymail.co.uk...

It's taboo to mention Fukushima?

Well yeah, seems like that's how things are everywhere...

Why? How odd.

Like on CNN, they claim to be journalists but they are ignoring the meltdowns. Nothing on there today about Japan...or the days prior...

Obviously this situation is so bad and out of control that the media, govt, and corporations believe they have to make sure we don't discuss the issue? I don't know.

I think humans are retarded for #1 ) Causing a mega-meltdown due to negligence. And #2) for refusing to talk about it openly after they create it.

Stuff like this really makes me think the human race is doomed to self-destruction.

Originally posted by okamitengu
its not head in the clouds... its the Japanese way.

if you fail to understand their way, how have you survived this long there?

the Japanese do not express their concerns. especially if it may be seen to denigrate people who may be working to fix the issue.
that would cause them to lose face, and be of embarrassment to the speaker.

you're own fear and trepidation will only be seen as gaijin behaviour and ignored.

ganbare!

Oh ok I get it. The Japanese are proud and strong and brave.

So brave that if we dared them to jump in a meat grinder they would all go in instantly! So brave and proud!

See where I am going with this? This social structure of shaming people into REFUSING TO DISCUSS THE TRUTH OPENLY has got to come to and end. It's sick and disgusting. It's EXACTLY what led to today's crappy world state, hiding things because of irrational self-interest.

Sorry but the human race has a right to know about the primary dangers facing their children in the world of tomorrow, you cannot cover up the largest chemical disaster in history by merely claiming you are trying to save your pride. You don't deserve any pride!

Only those brave enough to admit the harsh reality truthfully deserve pride. Keeping secrets and lying for any reason is dishonorable.

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I honestly can't believe how misinformed people are in this thread.

Talk about ridiculous

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Do you feel it's helpful to criticize without sharing any of your wisdom?

ATS's motto is to "deny ignorance" so if you see something posted is wrong, we want you to point it out. But it's generally considered good etiquette to follow a comment about something being wrong, with your version of what you think is right. If you don't do that, you haven't made much of a contribution to correcting misconceptions.

Originally posted by modern
reply to post by windwaker

 

I honestly can't believe how misinformed people are in this thread.

Talk about ridiculous

Greetings:

Glad you brought the subject up. Speaking of ridiculous...

Originally posted by modern
reply to post by Chadwickus

 

Google Earth decides when to update areas based on how often people view them.

You, kind person - who has never authored any thread on ATS - are questioning the validity of any thread?

Consider the answer offered by Google Earth:

October 4, 2010

How often does Google update the imagery in Google Earth?
This is a question that we get asked a lot, so hopefully this post will help clear things up.

The short answer is that Google usually updates imagery twice a month, typically around the 6th and the 20th of each month. We highlight all of those updates on the site as soon as we're aware of them, like the one we recently covered on September 21.
source

Please be sure that we are only asking for more a positive attitude and supportive evidence/details/links to back your assertions, rather than baseless opinions.

Please consider the following and offer your opinion so we can continue this lively discourse - or not.

3 May 2011

After a thorough data review showing declining radiation levels related to the Japanese nuclear incident, EPA has returned to the routine RadNet sampling and analysis process for precipitation, drinking water and milk.

As always, EPA's RadNet system of more than 100 stationary monitors will continue to provide EPA scientists near-real-time data on the slightest fluctuations in background radiation levels.

Due to the consistently decreasing radiation levels, EPA is evaluating the need to continue operating the additional air monitors deployed in response to the Japan nuclear incident.

EPA will continue to analyze air filters and cartridges from all air monitors as they arrive at the laboratory and will post the data as available.

In accordance with normal RadNet protocol, EPA will be analyzing milk and drinking water samples on a quarterly basis and precipitation samples as part of a monthly composite. The next round of milk and drinking water sampling will take place in approximately three months.
source

And on the same day:

3 May 2011

Cesium-137 Levels Continue to Rise in San Francisco Bay Area Topsoil.
source

We welcome all participation, comments and suggestions.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

In Peace, Love & Light

tfw

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You can't catch radiation sickness from another member of the public unless you do these wrong things, he/she spits saliva in your mouth, your blood/urine gets contaminated with the radiated person, you have a family with the radiated person, as the newborn child's genetics will be mutulated with possible down syndrome, alzhimers diseases, etc.

Standing, breathing the same air as a radiated person will not make you sick. You would have to be breathing the same contaminated atmosphere and as for the paper masks, the public really have been mis-informed from their government, what a suprise... not! Every single skin pour absorbs Heavy Metal particles from the radiated areas of Fukushima, so cover your face with a paer mask will not prevent you from radiation sickness.

Why do you think the militaries spend thousandths on NBC (Nuclear biological Chemical suits to tackle radiation/chemical zones, your not likely to see a soldier walking 20km from a well-known High Level Security Zone with a pair of flip flops, t'shirt, trousers and a paper mask.

You people really need to start getting with it.. or you'll end up like Chernobyl victoms.

After I handed in all my greens after leaving the military back in 2009, I went out got a job, saved up for "greens" and bought myself an ex NBC suit. Just incase. And as for British and American intelligence, who had warned all of their citizens travelling to Tokyo to stay well as far as 50-60km away from Fukushima plant, and were ordered to leave Japan within arrival.

reply to post by windwaker


After it snowed in Fukushima, they're f'k. Mainly do to the FACT that radiation attaches itself to the edge marginal of each and every snow flake and remains in the upper atmosphere for many years.

To put it simplier for others, the Japanese are rebuilding on contaminated soil that will remain for 1,000 years maybe more.

Originally posted by DClairvoyant
reply to post by windwaker

 

You can't catch radiation sickness from another member of the public unless you do these wrong things, he/she spits saliva in your mouth, your blood/urine gets contaminated with the radiated person, you have a family with the radiated person, as the newborn child's genetics will be mutulated with possible down syndrome, alzhimers diseases, etc.

Standing, breathing the same air as a radiated person will not make you sick. You would have to be breathing the same contaminated atmosphere and as for the paper masks, the public really have been mis-informed from their government, what a suprise... not! Every single skin pour absorbs Heavy Metal particles from the radiated areas of Fukushima, so cover your face with a paer mask will not prevent you from radiation sickness.

Why do you think the militaries spend thousandths on NBC (Nuclear biological Chemical suits to tackle radiation/chemical zones, your not likely to see a soldier walking 20km from a well-known High Level Security Zone with a pair of flip flops, t'shirt, trousers and a paper mask.

You people really need to start getting with it.. or you'll end up like Chernobyl victoms.

After I handed in all my greens after leaving the military back in 2009, I went out got a job, saved up for "greens" and bought myself an ex NBC suit. Just incase. And as for British and American intelligence, who had warned all of their citizens traveling to Tokyo to stay well as far as 50-60km away from Fukushima plant, and were ordered to leave Japan within arrival.

Greetings:

We are truly amazed that presenting what is a pure fact - without any spin associated to it - can generate such an outbreak of insecurity and outright fear-driven responses.

We had always expected that readers here can receive and interpret facts as presented, instead of demanding filtering for what some deem is unpleasant information.

We urge that sub-segment to immediately and permanently orient their attention to other media outlets that does the prefiltering for them, as per the government's mandate of not spreading panic.

Check this out:




Government Radiation Expert Deconstructs Myth Of “Safe” Radiation Levels
Nuclear radiation expert and renowned Government radiation expert, Chris Bubsy, deconstructs the myths and propaganda of so-called “safe” levels of nuclear radiation.

Since the Fukushima accident we have seen a stream of experts on radiation telling us not to worry, that the doses are too low, that the accident is nothing like Chernobyl and so forth. They appear on television and we read their articles in the newspapers and online. Fortunately the majority of the public don’t believe them.
(...)
And in an interview with me in Stockholm in 2009, Dr Jack Valentin, the ex-Scientific Secretary of the ICRP conceded this, and also made the statement that the ICRP risk model, the one used by all governments to assess the outcome of accidents like Fukushima, was unsafe and could not be used. You can see this interview on the internet, on www.vimeo.com.

Why is the ICRP model unsafe?

Because it is based on “absorbed dose”. This is average radiation energy in Joules divided by the mass of living tissue into which it is diluted. A milliSievert is one milliJoule of energy diluted into one kilogram of tissue.

As such, it would not distinguish between warming yourself in front of a fire and eating a red hot coal. It is the local distribution of energy that is the problem.

The dose from a singly internal alpha particle track to a single cell is 500mSv! The dose to the whole body from the same alpha track is 5 x 10-11 mSv. That is 0.000000000005mSv. But it is the dose to the cell that causes the genetic damage and the ultimate cancer.

The cancer yield per unit dose employed by ICRP is based entirely on external acute high dose radiation at Hiroshima, where the average dose to a cell was the same for all cells.

Please go to the source to read the full story - it is well worth your time. He concludes with this:

There is a gap between them and us.

Between the phoney scientists and the public who don’t believe what they say.

Between those who are employed and paid to protect us from radioactive pollution and those who die from its consequences.

Between those who talk down what is arguably the greatest public health scandal in human history, and the facts that they ignore.

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Joseph Conrad wrote: “After all the shouting is over, the grim silence of facts remain.”


Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

Traces of radiation from the crippled nuclear plant in Japan are being detected in states from California to Massachusetts, carried across the Pacific on broad rivers of wind. But state officials say there is no public health risk.

OK....let's investigate that statement a bit further.

Let's start with this from the Wall Street Journal:

Radiation Detected in U.S.

U.S. states, which aren't recommending protective measures for the public, are reporting tiny amounts of radioactive iodine known as Iodine-131 that is seen in the early stages of a nuclear reaction. It has a short half-life of eight days, meaning that in that time, half of it will have decayed to a non-radioactive state, a process that will continue until it is undetectable, Mr. Matus said.

In Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, public officials said radiation found in rainwater last week posed no threat to drinking water. Pennsylvania repeatedly tested the drinking water from six regions in the state over the weekend, but detected no Iodine-131, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said in a statement Monday.

People might "get alarmed by making what would be an [color=limegreen]inappropriate connection from rainwater to drinking water," Mr. Corbett said in a statement.

We offer the following article without comment:

28 March 2011
Radioactive Iodine-131 in Pennsylvania Rainwater Sample is 3300%
Above Federal Drinking Water Standard

Governor Corbett Says Public Water Supply Testing Finds No Risk to Public From Radioactivity Found in Rainwater, Pennsylvania Office of the Governor, March 28, 2011:

The (Iodine-131) numbers reported in the rainwater samples in Pennsylvania range from 40-100 picocuries per liter (pCi/L). Although these are levels above the background levels historically reported in these areas, they are still about 25 times below the level that would be of concern. The federal drinking water standard for Iodine-131 is three pCi/L. …

On Friday, rainwater samples were taken in Harrisburg, where levels were 41 pCi/L and at nuclear power plants at TMI and Limerick, where levels were 90 to 100 pCi/L.

Corbett emphasized that the drinking water is safe and there is no cause for health concerns. …

“Rainwater is not typically directly consumed,” Corbett said. “However, people might get alarmed by making what would be [color=limegreen]an inappropriate connection from rainwater to drinking water. By testing the drinking water, we can assure people that the water is safe.” …

This is not the radiation you seek... move along...

How Safe Is the Rain in America?

Prevailing winds routinely waft plumes of dust, coal-smoke, wild-fire soot, industrial grit and other microscopic particles from Asia to North America, several atmospheric scientists said.

Carried up by the rising warm air in the region around the damaged Fukushima plant, particles of radioactive isotopes such as Iodine-131 and Xenon-133 are being carried at about 50 miles per hour by winds blowing from west to east in a band of the atmosphere called the troposphere, about 6,500 feet to about 30,000 feet or more above the ground.

(...)
Generally, "the stuff will be spread in a long stream and, as it spreads, it becomes quite dilute," said research scientist Tony VanCuren at the California Air Resources Board.

Under current conditions, particles from the Fukushima complex would take about a week or so to cross the Pacific.

Typically, the particles will stay aloft until washed out of the air by rain or buffeted to lower altitude by turbulence, creating an unpredictable patchwork of fallout.

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4 April 2011
Cesium-137 Threat Grows While MSM Remains Silent

Cesium-137 has been detected in drinking water and milk here in the United States. Cesium and Tellurium were found in Boise, Las Vegas, Nome and Dutch Harbor, Honolulu, Kauai and Oahu, Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco, and San Bernardino,  Jacksonville and Orlando, Salt Lake City,  Guam, and Saipan while Uranium-234, with a half-life of 245,500 years has been found in Hawaii, California, and Washington.

The EPA has radiation monitoring sites situated around the country.

Radioactive isotopes spread through the atmosphere accumulate in milk after they fall to earth in rain or dust and settle on vegetation, where they are ingested by grazing cattle. Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases. Cesium-137 accumulates in the body’s soft tissues and bone marrow where it increases risk of cancer.

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The corporate media in the West is downplaying and basically ignoring the threat. On the one hand, the EPA tells us Cesium-137 is appearing in milk and water around the country, while on the other telling us not to worry.

The EPA said in March that “while they were above the historical and background norm, the levels weren’t considered harmful to human health.”

The agency sounds the alarm about radioactivity in cigarette smoke while minimizing the risk from an out-of-control nuclear plant that continues to spew radioactivity on an hourly basis... continuously!

Something is seriously wrong when a supposedly free media and government agencies in the U.S. downplay or completely ignore the threat.

“On April 4, the Japanese government also has requested the Japan Meteorological Society and Japanese universities not to release data from radiation measurement to avoid “public panic”. Rainwater samples have all demonstrated elevated concentrations of radioactive Tellurium-02, Ruthenium-04 and Technetium-04.

“280 sensors to measure radiation release from atomic bomb testing were established under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996. These sensors are detecting levels equivalent to Chernobyl releases. One scientist, Gerhard Wotawa, noted, ‘I’ve never seen data like this in my career.’

So how do we deal with disaster?

Austria, Germany, Canada and Australia have banned eight episodes of The Simpsons dealing with nuclear crisis.

The Simpsons, now in its 24th season with 480 episodes, has been one of the few outlets to show the greed of nuclear operators, groveling toadies and a complacent public to a mainstream television audience — meltdowns caused by jelly doughnuts!

Kopp Online, Xander News and other non-English news agencies are reporting that the EU implemented a secret “emergency” order, [color=limegreen]without informing the public, that increases the amount of radiation permitted in food by up to 2000% (20 times) the previous food standards.

According to EU bylaws, radiation limits may be raised during a nuclear emergency
to prevent food shortages.

4 April 2011
Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities,
Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk

Radiation has reached the EPA's maximum contaminant level in some milk samples.




Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and Cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday.

Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained Iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted by EPA in drinking water, the data shows. The Phoenix sample contained 3.2 picoCuries per liter of Iodine-131. The Los Angeles sample contained 2.9.

The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standard designed to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat. The FDA, not the EPA, regulates milk.

UPDATE: The FDA's Derived Intervention Level for Iodine-131 in milk is much higher: 4700 picoCuries per liter.
Read why.

Radioactive isotopes accumulate in milk after they spread through the atmosphere, fall to earth in rain or dust, and settle on vegetation, where they are ingested by grazing cattle. Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases. Cesium-137 accumulates in the body’s soft tissues, where it increases risk of cancer, according to EPA.

A rainwater sample collected in Boise on March 27 contained 390 picocures per liter of iodine-131, plus 41 of cesium-134 and 36 of cesium-137. EPA released this result for the first time yesterday. Typically several days pass between sample collection and data release because of the time required to collect, transport and analyze the samples.

But the EPA drinking-water data includes one outlier—an unusually, but not dangerously, high reading in a drinking water sample from Chatanooga, Tennessee.


The Watts Bar Dam site in Spring City, Tennessee

The sample was collected at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sequoyah nuclear plant. A Tennessee official told the Chatanooga Times last week that radiation from Japan had been detected at Sequoyah but is “1,000 to 10,000 times below any levels of concern.”

The 1.6 picocures per liter reported by the EPA on Friday is slightly more than half the maximum contaminant level permitted in drinking water, but more uniquely, it is many times higher than all the other drinking water samples collected in the U.S.
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5 April 2011

The flow of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean near Japan's distressed nuclear power plant has stopped, the plant's owners said.

The water was escaping from a concrete pit with a large crack in it, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Officials said the company used a substance called liquid glass to seal the crack and the leak stopped Wednesday morning.

The release of radioactive waste has raised concerns in Japan and elsewhere about the safety of seafood. On Tuesday, Japan's government set its first radiation safety standards for fish after radioactive contamination in nearby seawater was measured at several million times the legal limit.

[color=limegreen]TEPCO insisted that the radiation will rapidly disperse and that it poses no immediate danger.

But an expert said exposure to the highly concentrated levels near the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant could cause immediate injury and that the leaks could result in residual contamination of the sea in the area.
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12 April 2011
Nuclear Professor “Surprised” by Radioactive Seaweed South of Seattle

… KIRO 7 obtained samples of seaweed from Budd Inlet near Olympia two weeks ago. Professor Kris Starosta (a nuclear scientist) at Simon Fraser University confirmed the presence of radioactive Iodine Monday.

“We have seen Iodine 131 in the sample you sent us,” he said. “I think it’s pretty clear by now this must be Iodine 131 from releases from Fukushima.” …

“I think it is surprising,” Starosta said. “I guess I was assuming it wouldn’t reach this far, but it did.” …
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12 April 2011
Fukushima Meltdown Could Trigger Atomic Explosion

A British professor and expert on the health effects of ionizing radiation told Alex Jones today evidence points toward a nuclear explosion occurring at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. Two explosions at the plant in March were described as hydrogen gas explosions by Japanese officials and the corporate media.

Using ratios of the radionuclides Xenon 133 and Xenon 133m which they measured by gamma spectrometer, the Russians demonstrated that the Chernobyl explosion was a fission criticality explosion and not principally a hydrogen explosion as has been claimed.

“I believe that the explosion of the No 3 reactor may have also involved criticality but this must await the release of data on measurements of the Xenon isotope ratios,” he writes in a statement on Fukushima and Chernobyl emailed to Infowars.com.

Busby further notes that the surface contamination and of dose rates 60 kilometers out from the Fukushima site on March 17 exceeded that released at Chernobyl.

He explains in his statement that the damaged reactors at Fukushima “are now continuing to fission. It is hoped that there will be no separation of plutonium and possible nuclear explosion. I feel that this is unlikely now.” Short of an actual plutonium explosion, the reactors remain open to the air and will continue to “fission and release radionuclides for years unless something drastic is done.”

Dr. Busby noted a precedent for the dire scenario now unfolding – a nuclear explosion at a plutonium production reprocessing plant in the former Soviet Union in 1957.

The incident at the Mayak facility was the second-worst nuclear accident in history after the Chernobyl disaster. The explosion released 50-100 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste and contaminated a huge territory in the eastern Urals.

The Soviets kept the explosion secret for 30 years. According to a report on the accident, about 400,000 people in the region were irradiated following the explosion and other incidents at the plant.

Ural Mountains Radiation Pollution

17 April 2011
Have the Real Cesium-137 Fallout Maps Been Hidden From the Public?

Compare these two images.

First the publicly released Cs-137 total column fallout map for 24th March. This analysis was made on 26th March.


Now the map on the server here for the same time on the same date. The key gradient is the same. This analysis was made the day before, on the 25th March.


That's right, it shows the Northern Hemisphere getting absolutely plastered with radioactive Cesium-137. If this is incorrect, why is it kept on file and not the public one?  If it is the real version, why is it not publicly released?
source.

19 April 2011
High Levels Of Caesium And Xenon Nuclear Fallout Found In Japan Radiation Forecasts Not Being Shown To The Public

We previously reported that Dutchsinse, who has been falling the Japan nuclear radiation forecasts being generated by different scientific organizations, stumbled across an entirely different set of radiation forecasts not released to the public.
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Censored Japan Nuclear Radiation Forecasts Not Released To Public Found?

Japan nuclear radiation forecasts produced by the Norwegian Air Institute have apparently been censored and never released to the public. Here are three videos discuss these forecasts and making there existence public knowledge.
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And this particular nugget from TEPCO:

19 April 2011
Current Status at Fukushima Daiichi
Workers have been struggling to prevent a nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Here's the current status of each of the six reactors. 
Last updated April 19, 2011.

20 April 2011
Comparison Of Censored And Uncensored Japan Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Fallout Forecast

Cover-up of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Fallout Forecasts Exposed!
We previously reported on the steady concentrated stream of Nuclear radioactive fallout heading toward the US and Canada.

We now have for the first time a side-by-side evaluation of two radiation fallout forecasts. On the left is the censored version released to the public downplaying the levels of radiation spreading around the world. On the right is the same uncensored forecast.




And now for something completely different:

27 April 2011


presents

America's Worst Nukes

Poorly-regulated nuclear power plants had 13 'near-misses' in 2010.

This is a great photo-essay put together by Rolling Stone Magazine and well-worth the read.




Arkansas Nuclear One
Location: Russellville, AR
Owner: Entergy
Near-miss: Security problems prompted the NRC to conduct a special investigation.
Details not publicly available.

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists, The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety
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And that, my friends, were some highlights from April, 2011.

In Peace, Love & Light

tfw

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Wow, talk about issues. Asperges much? Digging through my posting history to try and find something to pull me apart from.

Fcking loser, time to leave the basement thoefourwinds

reply to post by modern


That's uncalled for, want to try and use a better language whilst online and show respect to offline readers aswell as non-member's. You should be exiled for ATS with such filth from your mouth. When you have decided to grow-up, then should you only decide to drop a comment in here with respect to others.

What you sow, you reap.