suite ;
Cesium
exceeding new limit detected in 51 food items in nine prefectures
Radioactive
cesium was detected in 51 food products from nine prefectures in
excess of a new government-set limit in the first month since it was
introduced April 1, according to data released by the health ministry
Tuesday.
The
limit was exceeded in 337 cases, or 2.4 percent of 13,867 food
samples examined by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
Cesium
exceeding the previous allowable limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram
was detected in 55 cases, while the new limit of 100 becquerels was
exceeded in 282 cases.
Report :
Tepco taking vacation from Fukushima for week-long holiday
Follow-up
to : Weekends
off at Fukushima : Not one plant worker could be seen says Asahi —
Operational equipment lay idle — A cold eerie quietness
Japanese
journalist Ryuichi
Kino is reporting that Tepco has apparently gone on vacation for
Golden Week, according
to SimplyInfo :
TEPCO
Gone On Vacation
Tweet
from (Ryuichi KINO) @ Kinoryuichi
[Press
conference] The Tokyo Electric Power, the rest of the GW [Golden
Week]. Following after the holidays. According to TEPCO, I rest a
press conference “between the GW does not have much work on the
premises.” Whether this explanation is true, can not be examined
because they can not look in your own. Because the relationship
between patrol and maintenance without breaks or contact of broken or
leaking is expected to come.
Head
of Fukushima plant : “Explosion occurred INSIDE the containment
vessel” at Reactor No. 2 — Contradicts official statements
Up
to 20 Million Tons of Japan’s Tsunami Debris Expected on U.S.
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Hydrogen
levels continue rising at Reactor No. 2 — Now above .50%, highest in
months — Explosion risk at 4%
33%
of prized bird species disappears after summer near Fukushima —
Those making it back “were in a poor condition” says New Zealand
gov’t researcher
Peter
Daley on the Fukushima Radiation Cloud over Australia & NZ
Peter
Daley from Caloundra in Queensland, is the researcher who blew the
whistle on the radiation cloud over Australia then carried on over to
the South Island of NZ, passing over Dunedin.
Back
on the 8th of January of this year Peter had programed his new high
tech geiger counter to sound an alarm if radiation far above
background radiation was measured.
Japan
Times on Melt Through : “Molten ‘lava’ melted bottom of
containment vessel,” says nuclear engineer given access by top
official — Huge amounts of fission materials released into
environment
omiuri :
“The worst-case scenario is a China syndrome” [...] A China
syndrome refers to a situation in which nuclear fuel in a reactor
melts and goes through a containment vessel -Masao Yoshida, former
chief of the Fukushima Daiichi plant
May
6th, 2012 | 23
comments
Caldicott :
Fukushima radiation will be reaching you quite soon on US West Coast
— I don’t think I’d be surfing (VIDEO)
09:27
AM EST on May 6th, 2012 | 23
comments
When
radioactive cesium enters body, 75% lodges in muscle tissue including
heart
09:52
PM EST on May 5th, 2012 | 50
comments
Gundersen :
Unit 4 reactor building has not been reinforced — Floor of fuel
pool was, but not strong as original
03:34
PM EST on May 5th, 2012 | 53
comments
Experts :
NRC letting threat fester at Unit 4 because acknowledging it would
call into question safety at dozens of identically designed nuclear
plants US in
12:57
PM EST on May 5th, 2012 | 44
comments
Report :
Concern that a subsidence in the earth under unit 4 could cause its
collapse
10:57
AM EST on May 5th, 2012 | 64
comments
‘Doomsday-like’
radiation release if fire in pool at unit 4 — “It would be a
global catastrophe… it already has been, but it would dwarf what’s
already happened” -Nuclear Waste Expert
09:33
AM EST on May 5th, 2012 | 65
comments
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from Sen. Wyden : Fukushima spent fuel absolutely a national security
issue — Radiation caused by pool failure “could reach the West
Coast within days”