IITATE, October 8 (The Economist) – CREST the hill into the village of Iitate, and the reading on a radiation dosimeter surges eightfold—even with the car windows shut. “Don’t worry, I’ve been coming here for months and I’m still alive,” chuckles Chohei Sato, chief of the village council, as he rolls down the window and […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 5 October 2011 A mere formality probably at this point, but it is upsetting some people in Japan right now. From Yomiuri Shinbun (10/6/2011): 国内の被曝(ひばく)線量の基準などを検討する文部科学省の放射線審議会の基本部会は６日、東京電力福島第一原子力発電所事故で放射性物質が拡散した状況下の一般住民の被曝線量について、「年間１～２０ミリ・シーベルトの範囲で可能な限り低い値を段階的に設定する」とする見解案をまとめた。 The Radiation Council at the Ministry of Education and Science submitted its opinion on the domestic standard on radiation exposure on October 6. Considering the current situation of […]
By Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada, and Stuart Biggs27 September 2011 Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets. Takako Harada, 80, returned to an evacuated area of Iitate village to retrieve her […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 26 September 2011 The Japanese government says it will abolish the “evacuation-ready” zone in 5 municipalities that lie between 20 to 30-kilometer radius from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on September 30, all at once. It may be construed as a declaration by the national government that it is now “safe” to return […]
A camera mounted on a crane captured this view into the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Reactor Building during a dust-sampling survey on 24 August 2011. Steam is visible in the upper-left corner at 1:14. This location is approximately over the reactor. TEPCO Steam venting from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Reactor Building, 24 Aug 2011 Technorati […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera9 September 2011 So says the government corporation Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 5 months after the leak of highly contaminated water was first discovered (in April) at the water intake for Reactor 2 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. So, instead of 4,700 terabecquerels of radioactive iodine and cesium as TEPCO announced back in […]
Movie of the Fukushima-Daichii activity in the air (cesium-137, ground level). The simulation was performed with a specific version of the numerical atmospheric chemistry and transport model Polyphemus/Polair3D. The parametrisations used for the transport and physical removal of the radionuclides are described in [1,2,3,4]. The magnitude of activity concentration field is uncertain and could be […]
August 30 (Asahi Shimbun) – Extreme levels of radiation have been detected in soil within 40 kilometers of the quake-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the science ministry said. The finding emerged in a map published Aug. 29 that for the first time shows contamination levels of areas within a 100-km radius of the […]
By Natalia Konstantinovskaya; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim and Chris Gallagher29 August 2011 TOKYO (Reuters) – The environmental group took samples at and near three schools in Fukushima city, well outside the 20 km exclusion zone from Tokyo Electric Power’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan’s northeast. “No parent should have to choose between radiation […]
By David McNeill 29 August 2011 Soma City (The Independent) – Yoshio Ichida is recalling the worst day of his 53 years: 11 March, when the sea swallowed up his home and killed his friends. The Fukushima fisherman was in the bath when the huge quake hit and barely made it to the open sea […]
